Cast
Peter Ackroyd
Himself - Presenter
Jim Carter
Henry Fielding
Derek Jacobi
Tacitus
Michael Feast
Christopher Wren
Alex Jennings
Stephen Spender
Tom Hollander
T.S. Eliot
Chris Langham
Ned Ward
Philip Jackson
Samuel Pepys
Toby Stephens
Casanova
Ronan Vibert
Joseph Conrad
John Woodvine
Henry Moore
Jack Shepherd
Thomas de Quincey
Don Warrington
Ignatius Sancho
Timothy West
Henry Mayhew
Danielle Rees
Charlie Meyer
Episodes
Recommended
7.9
Top Gear
1978
8.1
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
7.1
History 101
2020
7.4
The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy
2023
7.5
30 for 30
2009
7.7
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
7.9
Deadly Women
2005
7.6
Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones
2023
6.4
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
7.4
Marvel's 616
2020
7
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
7.5
Baseball
1994
7.2
The New York Times Presents
2020
7.4
Horizon
1964
6.2
The F Word
2005
7.4
Paranormal Witness
2011
6.7
Biography
1987
6.6
American Experience
1988
8.1
In Search of...
1977
7.7
Down to Earth with Zac Efron
2020
Similar Shows
6
The Ride London to Beijing
2018
Building The Olympic Dream
2009
The Ark
1993
8
WWII: The Lost Color Archives
2000
7.4
Being Gordon Ramsay
2026
The 800 Million Pound Railway Station
2007
Pineapple Dance Studios
2010
6
The Great Smog: Winter of '52
2022
7.9
The Savoy
2020
The Night Bus
2015
8
7/7: The London Bombings
2025
8.5
Shoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube
2024
10
The Thames: Britain's Great River with Tony Robinson
2019
8.3
Murder Maps
2015
8
The Magnificent Three: Amsterdam, London, New York
2017
7
School Swap: UK to USA
2025
5.8
Camden
2024
9.3
Hospital
2017
10
The Great Fire: In Real Time
2017
8
Inside London Fire Brigade
2017