The most illustrious figures of the past would have much to tell you if only, by some miracle of time travel, you could borrow an hour or so of their time. The "Coffee with ..." book series of dramatized biographies, published by Duncan Baird between 2007 and 2008, enables you to do just that.
There is "Coffee with the Buddha", "Coffee with Plato", "Coffee with Aristotle", "Coffee with Oscar Wilde", "Coffee with Isaac Newton", "Coffee with Dickens", "Coffee with Mozart", "Coffee with Mark Twain", "Coffee with Einstein", "Coffee with Groucho", "Coffee with Marilyn", and some which are not (yet) available on archive.org, such as "Coffee with Shakespeare", "Coffee with Hemingway" and "Coffee with Michelangelo".
Buy them a coffee and they open up your mind!