Philippe Sands on the Manchester bombing

Lemn Sissay: Why foster care kids make great heroes

Lucy Worsley: Did Jane Austen ever have sex?

Bill Bailey: Why I love the collective nouns for birds

James Rhodes' dedication to the people of Manchester

Christina Lamb: The most impressive people campaigning for change are women

Stephen Fry: The Enlightenment bit itself on the backside

Paul Beatty: Someone gave me a book called the 'Directory of Uncle Toms'

Tony Robinson: I thought the Blackadder script was rubbish

Frank Cotterell Boyce: The importance of reading for reading's sake

Will Self: Truth, the internet and the individual

Bill Bailey: My grandfather used to set us a bird-watching challenge