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Taras Grescoe

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Dan Snow

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Vince Cable

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Rosie Boycott

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Chris Smith

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Chris van Tulleken

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Jeremy Paxman

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Mike Figgis

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Ed Vaizey

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Ed Balls

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Ronni Ancona

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Dan Snow

The historian on the eighteenth century, a picnic with Hilary Mantel, and covering Britain in windmills

Andrew Roberts

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Bobby Seagull

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Kate Mosse

The author and Women's Prize founder on her book Warrior Queens, her great-grandmother written out of history and the woman who foresaw global warming in 1856

John Lloyd

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Francesca Beauman

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Helen Brown

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Hanna Pylväinen

The Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her novel The End of Drum-Time, the Lutheran church she left at 21 and growing up with seven siblings and thirteen aunts and uncles

Ruth Ivo

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