On screen
Cast
58 credited performers
Peter France
Self - Presenter
John Tusa
Self - Presenter
Michael Praed
Self - Narrator (voice)
Andrew Sachs
Self - Narrator (voice)
John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
Paul McCartney
Self (archive footage)
George Harrison
Self (archive footage)
Ringo Starr
Self (archive footage)
Larry Kane
Self
Tony Barrow
Self
Tony Bramwell
Self
Maureen Cleave
Self
Michael Pread
Narrator
Chris Hutchins
Self
Ed Freeman
Self
Peter Ibbotson
Self
David Suchet
Self - Narrator (voice)
Michael Cockerell
Self - Presenter
Gar Alperovitz
Self - Presenter
Antonia Benedek
Self - Presenter
Nick Ross
Self - Narrator (voice)
Michael Culver
Roger Bacon
Peter Ustinov
Self - Narrator (voice)
John Rowe
Self - Narrator (voice)
Jonathan Miller
Self - Narrator (voice)
Nicholas Le Prevost
Thomas More
Joanna David
Character not listed
Christopher Cazenove
Character not listed
David Swift
Character not listed
Paul Rhys
Cicero
Owen Teale
Erucius
Mark McGann
Sextus Roscius
Christopher Good
Chair of judges
Andrew Greenough
Capito
Antony Byrne
Magnus
Penny Downie
Caecilia
Richard Ridings
Elder Sextus
Gerard Horan
Country gent
Þorsteinn Gunnarsson
Jon Steingrimsson
Richard Hammond
Self - Co-presenter
Jane Treays
Self - Narrator (voice)
Fitzroy Maclean
Self
Frances Barber
Annie Besant
Rosalind Stockwell
Self - Narrator (voice)
Juliet Stevenson
Self - Narrator (voice)
Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Self
Richard Mitchley
Self - Narrator (voice)
Robin Ellis
Self - Narrator (voice)
Christopher Andrew
Self - Reporter
Christopher Frayling
Narrator (Voice)
Peter Carlisle
Secretary of War Henry Stimson
Tom Smith
Tiro
Tony Benn
Character not listed
Ian Paisley
Character not listed
Laurence McKeown
Character not listed
John Hume
Character not listed
Gary Oldman
Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
Harriet Walter
Margaret Paston