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Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel
Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes and Peter Stothard on Mary Renault鈥檚 Greek historical novels
Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel- Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
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- Sandi Toksvig on the great women of history
- Terry Waite on finding humour in the darkest of places
- The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro
- Germaine Greer: Lady Macbeth is an emptyhead
- Yuval Noah Harari: Why money is the most successful story ever told
- Andrew O'Hagan reads a passage about a firefight in Helmand Province
- Frank Cottrell Boyce reads from The Astounding Broccoli Boy
- David Mitchell: I'm a fake novelist
- Alan Bennett to the reluctant rescue
- Simon Schama on the ongoing problems faced by the Jewish people
- Pippa Harris: Some of our younger crew hadn't realised it was illegal to be gay
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