| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Derek Jacobi | Tacitus | 3 |
| Tom Hollander | T.S. Eliot | 3 |
| Toby Stephens | Casanova | 3 |
| Philip Jackson | Samuel Pepys | 3 |
| John Simm | Friedrich Engels | 3 |
| Harriet Walter | Virginia Woolf | 3 |
| Anton Lesser | Charles Dickens | 3 |
| Don Warrington | Ignatius Sancho | 3 |
| Timothy West | Henry Mayhew | 3 |
| Alex Jennings | Stephen Spender | 3 |
| Jim Carter | Henry Fielding | 3 |
| Jack Shepherd | Thomas de Quincey | 3 |
| Ronan Vibert | Joseph Conrad | 3 |
| Tim Pigott-Smith | John Evelyn | 3 |
| John Woodvine | Henry Moore | 3 |
| Amanda Root | Charlotte Bronte | 3 |
| Philip Madoc | Geoffrey of Monmouth | 3 |
| Peter Ackroyd | Himself - Presenter | 3 |
| Chris Langham | Ned Ward | 3 |
| Michael Feast | Christopher Wren | 3 |