| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Agnieszka Piotrowska | Crew | Directing | Director, Writer | 1 |
Bruce Norman | Crew | Editing | Editor | 40 |
Colin Swash | Crew | Writing | Writer | 1 |
 Jonathan Miller | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Tristram Powell | Crew | Directing | Director, Writer | 1 |
Archie Baron | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
Ashley Gething | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer | 1 |
Deborah Perkin | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer | 1 |
Mark Hayhurst | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
Rob Coldstream | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer, Writer | 1 |
John Farren | Crew | Editing | Editor | 1 |
David Stewart | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Catrine Clay | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer | 1 |
Allan Francovich | Crew | Directing | Director | 3 |
Jonathan Stamp | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
Jonathan Hacker | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Jane Treays | Crew | Production | Producer, Writer | 1 |
Tim Robinson | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer | 1 |
John Triffitt | Crew | Production | Producer, Director | 2 |
Mark Anderson | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Roy Fry | Crew | Editing | Editor | 1 |
 Paul Lashmar | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
 Andrew Sachs | Cast | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 3 |
Antony Byrne | Cast | Actor | Magnus | 1 |
 Christopher Cazenove | Cast | Actor | 1 | |
 Christopher Frayling | Cast | Actor | Narrator (Voice) | 1 |
 Christopher Good | Cast | Actor | Chair of judges | 1 |
 David Suchet | Cast | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 |
David Swift | Cast | Actor | 1 | |
 Frances Barber | Cast | Actress | Annie Besant | 1 |
 George Harrison | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
 Gerard Horan | Cast | Actor | Country gent | 1 |
 Joanna David | Cast | Actress | 1 | |
 John Lennon | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
John Rowe | Cast | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 |
Jonathan Miller | Cast | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Juliet Stevenson | Cast | Actress | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Lindsay Duncan | Cast | Actress | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Mark McGann | Cast | Actor | Sextus Roscius | 1 |
 Michael Culver | Cast | Actor | Roger Bacon | 1 |
Michael Praed | Cast | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 3 |
 Nicholas Le Prevost | Cast | Actor | Thomas More | 1 |
 Owen Teale | Cast | Actor | Erucius | 1 |
 Paul McCartney | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
 Paul Rhys | Cast | Actor | Cicero | 1 |
 Penny Downie | Cast | Actress | Caecilia | 1 |
 Peter Ustinov | Cast | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Richard Ridings | Cast | Actor | Elder Sextus | 1 |
 Ringo Starr | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
Tom Smith | Cast | Actor | Tiro | 1 |
 Andrew Greenough | Cast | Actor | Capito | 1 |
 Larry Kane | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Richard Hammond | Cast | Actor | Self - Co-presenter | 1 |
Tony Barrow | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
Þorsteinn Gunnarsson | Cast | Jon Steingrimsson | 1 | |
 Rosalind Stockwell | Cast | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 | |
 Robin Ellis | Cast | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 |
Peter France | Cast | Self - Presenter | 49 | |
 Simon Sebag-Montefiore | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
Gar Alperovitz | Cast | Self - Presenter | 1 | |
 Michael Cockerell | Cast | Actor | Self - Presenter | 1 |
Tony Bramwell | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Jane Treays | Cast | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 | |
Ed Freeman | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Chris Hutchins | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Michael Pread | Cast | Narrator | 1 | |
Maureen Cleave | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Nick Ross | Cast | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 | |
Peter Ibbotson | Cast | Self | 1 | |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) | Episodes |
