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Episode credited cast: | |||
Stephen Fry | ... | Self - Presenter | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Simon Russell Beale | ... | Self | |
Brian Blessed | ... | Self | |
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Johnson Chang | ... | Self |
Richard Curtis | ... | Self | |
Guillaume Gallienne | ... | Self | |
William Goldman | ... | Self | |
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Ian Hislop | ... | Self - Editor of Private Eye |
Peter Jackson | ... | Self | |
Hugh Laurie | ... | Various (archive footage) | |
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Robert McCrum | ... | Self |
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David Norris | ... | Self - Irish Senator |
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Christopher Ricks | ... | Self - Boston University (as Sir Christopher Ricks) |
Mark Rylance | ... | Self | |
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David Tang | ... | Self (as Sir David Tang) |
This time Stephen Fry celebrates storytelling. It has been with us as long as language itself and as a species, we love to tell our stories. This desire to both entertain and explain has resulted in the flowering of language to describe every aspect of the human condition. Stephen asks just what makes a good story and why some writers just do it better. He reveals what stories make him shiver with joy or, conversely, shudder with horror. Written by Joyce M