London

Peter Ackroyd

as Himself - Presenter

Jim Carter

as Henry Fielding

Derek Jacobi

as Tacitus

Michael Feast

as Christopher Wren

Alex Jennings

as Stephen Spender

Tom Hollander

as T.S. Eliot

Chris Langham

as Ned Ward

Philip Jackson

as Samuel Pepys

Toby Stephens

as Casanova

Ronan Vibert

as Joseph Conrad

John Woodvine

as Henry Moore

Jack Shepherd

as Thomas de Quincey

Don Warrington

as Ignatius Sancho

Timothy West

as Henry Mayhew

Danielle Rees

as Charlie Meyer

John Simm

as Friedrich Engels

Harriet Walter

as Virginia Woolf

Anton Lesser

as Charles Dickens

Philip Madoc

as Geoffrey of Monmouth

Tim Pigott-Smith

as John Evelyn

Amanda Root

as Charlotte Bronte