Cast 52
Peter France
Self - Presenter (49 episodes)
Andrew Sachs
Self - Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
Michael Praed
Self - Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
John Lennon
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Paul McCartney
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
George Harrison
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Ringo Starr
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Larry Kane
Self (1 episode)
Tony Barrow
Self (1 episode)
Tony Bramwell
Self (1 episode)
Maureen Cleave
Self (1 episode)
Michael Pread
Narrator (1 episode)
Chris Hutchins
Self (1 episode)
Ed Freeman
Self (1 episode)
Peter Ibbotson
Self (1 episode)
David Suchet
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Michael Cockerell
Self - Presenter (1 episode)
Gar Alperovitz
Self - Presenter (1 episode)
Antonia Benedek
Self - Presenter (1 episode)
Michael Culver
Roger Bacon (1 episode)
Peter Ustinov
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Jonathan Miller
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Nicholas Le Prevost
Thomas More (1 episode)
Joanna David
(1 episode)
Christopher Cazenove
(1 episode)
David Swift
(1 episode)
Paul Rhys
Cicero (1 episode)
Owen Teale
Erucius (1 episode)
Mark McGann
Sextus Roscius (1 episode)
Christopher Good
Chair of judges (1 episode)
Andrew Greenough
Capito (1 episode)
Antony Byrne
Magnus (1 episode)
Penny Downie
Caecilia (1 episode)
Richard Ridings
Elder Sextus (1 episode)
Gerard Horan
Country gent (1 episode)
Þorsteinn Gunnarsson
Jon Steingrimsson (1 episode)
Richard Hammond
Self - Co-presenter (1 episode)
Jane Treays
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Fitzroy Maclean
Self (1 episode)
Frances Barber
Annie Besant (1 episode)
Rosalind Stockwell
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Juliet Stevenson
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Self (1 episode)
Richard Mitchley
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Robin Ellis
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Christopher Andrew
Self - Reporter (1 episode)
Christopher Frayling
Narrator (Voice) (1 episode)
Peter Carlisle
Secretary of War Henry Stimson (1 episode)
Directing 13
Allan Francovich
Director (3 episodes)
Tristram Powell
Director (1 episode)
Tim Robinson
Director (1 episode)
Mark Anderson
Director (1 episode)
Agnieszka Piotrowska
Director (1 episode)
Jonathan Hacker
Director (1 episode)
Richard Trayler-Smith
Director (1 episode)
David Stewart
Director (1 episode)
Jonathan Miller
Director (1 episode)
Catrine Clay
Director (1 episode)
Patrick Le Gall
Director (1 episode)
Deborah Perkin
Director (1 episode)
John Triffitt
Director (1 episode)
Editing 3
Production 11
Timothy Gardam
Executive Producer (40 episodes)
John Triffitt
Producer (2 episodes)
Jonathan Stamp
Producer (1 episode)
Paul Lashmar
Producer (1 episode)
Jane Treays
Producer (1 episode)
Deborah Perkin
Producer (1 episode)
Catrine Clay
Producer (1 episode)
Richard Trayler-Smith
Producer (1 episode)
Tim Robinson
Producer (1 episode)
Mark Hayhurst
Producer (1 episode)
Archie Baron
Producer (1 episode)
Writing 6
Tristram Powell
Writer (1 episode)
Jane Treays
Writer (1 episode)
Alain Dugrand
Writer (1 episode)
Colin Swash
Writer (1 episode)
Patrick Le Gall
Writer (1 episode)
Agnieszka Piotrowska
Writer (1 episode)