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Great Lives

Great Lives

282 episodes

Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.


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Actor Niamh Cusack on the life of poet Mary Oliver

Published: Jan. 16, 2024, 5:40 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds

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Mr Motivator picks Harry Belafonte

Published: Jan. 9, 2024, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 30 seconds

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Jimmy Wales on Thomas Jefferson

Published: Jan. 2, 2024, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Eartha Kitt proposed by Faye Tozer

Published: Dec. 26, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 27 seconds

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John Gray on JG Ballard

Published: Dec. 19, 2023, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 25 seconds

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Iszi Lawrence on Diana Barnato Walker

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, 3:58 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 52 seconds

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Mohammad Mossadegh, PM of Iran ousted in a coup

Published: Dec. 5, 2023, 4:41 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 17 seconds

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Ludwig Koch

Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 12:38 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Lady Eve Balfour

Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 12:10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Ken Loach on Gerrard Winstanley

Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 11:31 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Chi-chi Nwanoku on Jessye Norman

Published: Sept. 19, 2023, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Ninette de Valois

Published: Sept. 5, 2023, 3:52 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Sophie Scott on Hattie Jacques

Published: Aug. 15, 2023, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore and London Zoo

Published: Aug. 8, 2023, 3:32 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Susie Dent on Thomas Mann

Published: Aug. 1, 2023, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Tony Benn

Published: June 1, 2023, 11:51 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Jon Ronson picks Terry Hall of The Specials

Published: May 16, 2023, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 11 seconds

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Sir Edward Coke, prosecutor of Guy Fawkes

Published: May 10, 2023, 6:44 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Kofi Annan

Published: May 2, 2023, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Frank Zappa

Published: April 25, 2023, 4:10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Frederick the Great of Prussia

Published: April 11, 2023, 3:13 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Arthur Ashe

Published: April 4, 2023, 3:17 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking

Published: Feb. 20, 2023, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Adjoa Andoh on Zora Neale Hurston

Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 27 seconds

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Comedian Chris McCausland on Kurt Cobain

Published: Jan. 17, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Roger Deakin, wild swimmer and author of Waterlogged

Published: Jan. 9, 2023, 11:29 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Minette Batters on Henry Plumb

Published: Jan. 3, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Bob Harris on Sir Matt Busby, Manchester United manager

Published: Dec. 27, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Noddy Holder on Chuck Berry

Published: Dec. 20, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Olivia Laing on Christopher Lloyd, Gardener and Writer

Published: Dec. 13, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Olia Hercules on Alla Horska, Ukrainian painter

Published: Dec. 9, 2022, noon
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Bonnie Greer on the Women of the Morant Bay Rebellion

Published: Sept. 28, 2022, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood nominated by Lesley Garrett

Published: Sept. 13, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Romy Gill on poet Amrita Pritam

Published: Sept. 6, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Rosalind Franklin picked by Kate Bingham, former head of the UK government's vaccine taskforce

Published: Aug. 30, 2022, 3:31 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Educationalist

Published: Aug. 23, 2022, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Ravi Shankar, India's famous sitar player

Published: Aug. 16, 2022, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Holly Walsh on BS Johnson

Published: Aug. 10, 2022, 6:29 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Pat Nevin on Johan Cruyff

Published: Aug. 2, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Judy Garland

Published: May 31, 2022, 3:54 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Joan Rhodes, strongest woman in the world

Published: May 24, 2022, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Rob Newman on Franklin D Roosevelt

Published: May 17, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 23 seconds

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Mr Manchester Tony Wilson nominated by Terry Christian

Published: May 10, 2022, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds

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Gil Scott-Heron

Published: May 3, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Lolita Chakrabarti on actor Ira Aldridge

Published: April 26, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Janet Ellis on Puffin editor Kaye Webb

Published: April 19, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 16 seconds

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Tom Hopkinson, editor of Picture Post

Published: April 12, 2022, 3:26 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Brian Cox on Lindsay Anderson

Published: April 8, 2022, 8:11 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Spike Milligan

Published: Jan. 25, 2022, 4:54 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes

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Roma Agrawal on Mrinalini Sarabhai

Published: Jan. 18, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Lady Hale on Lady Rhondda

Published: Jan. 11, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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William Lever, Lord Leverhulme, founder of Unilever

Published: Jan. 10, 2022, 10:03 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Noor-Un-Nissa Inayat Khan

Published: Dec. 28, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Jeanne Baret, first woman to sail round the globe

Published: Dec. 21, 2021, 4:31 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Rory Sutherland on Johnny Ramone

Published: Dec. 14, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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JRR Tolkien, creator of The Hobbit

Published: Dec. 7, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Ruth Rogers on James Baldwin

Published: Sept. 28, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Yanis Varoufakis on Hypatia

Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Dorothy Byrne on Catherine of Siena

Published: Sept. 14, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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Peggy Seeger on her husband Ewan MacColl

Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 4:12 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 2 seconds

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Josiah Wedgwood, master potter

Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 10:35 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 27 seconds

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Frantz Fanon

Published: Aug. 24, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Althea Gibson

Published: Aug. 17, 2021, 3:59 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Yehudi Menuhin

Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 3:53 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Hans Christian Andersen

Published: Aug. 3, 2021, 4:06 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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The Surprise Lives

Published: June 3, 2021, 4:19 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Rosie Millard on Edward III

Published: May 25, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Ben Miller on William Hazlitt

Published: May 18, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Arlo Parks on Elliott Smith

Published: May 12, 2021, 1:16 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Jonathan Dimbleby on Harry Hopkins

Published: May 6, 2021, 5:55 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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KT Tunstall on Ivor Cutler

Published: April 27, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Black and British pioneer Kenny Lynch

Published: April 20, 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist

Published: April 15, 2021, 9:33 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 27 seconds

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The Talented Mr Ripley author, Patricia Highsmith

Published: April 7, 2021, 12:44 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Rights activist Cesar Chavez nominated by Cori Crider

Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 4 seconds

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Caroline Catz on Delia Derbyshire

Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 34 seconds

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David Jonsson on Jean Michel Basquiat

Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Rob Rinder on Jessica Mitford

Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Diane Morgan on Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding

Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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David Spiegelhalter on Frank Ramsey

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 6:57 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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The Great Lives of Great Lives

Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 5:13 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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Katherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII

Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 6:18 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds

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Xuanzang, Chinese monk and traveller

Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds

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James Graham on John Maynard Keynes

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Sir David Adjaye on Okwui Enwezor

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 3:57 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Tom Allen on Kenneth Williams

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Ernie Bevin, forgotten political giant

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 4:58 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 24 seconds

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Jessie Ware on Donna Summer

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Peter Frankopan on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Frida Kahlo nominated by Author Jessie Burton

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 9:07 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Mussolini

Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 5:29 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 16 seconds

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Dolly Alderton on Doris Day

Published: June 2, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Sybille Bedford, author of Jigsaw and A Legacy

Published: May 26, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Billy Bremner of Leeds United

Published: May 19, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Sally Phillips on Hollywood star Myrna Loy

Published: May 13, 2020, 1:52 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Victoria Wood

Published: May 5, 2020, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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Maya Angelou

Published: April 29, 2020, 11:33 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds

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The amazing Maya Angelou

Published: April 29, 2020, 11:33 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds

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Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables

Published: April 21, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Frank Cottrell Boyce on Tove Jansson

Published: April 14, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Rick Stein on Jim Morrison

Published: April 10, 2020, 10:45 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds

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Andi Oliver on Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison

Published: Jan. 21, 2020, 4:44 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Kurt Vonnegut

Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Kurt Vonnegut and Josie Long

Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Charlie Parker nominated by Ken Clarke

Published: Jan. 3, 2020, 11:49 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 43 seconds

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Bill Bailey on his hero Alfred Russel Wallace

Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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Novelist Enid Blyton

Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Jeremy Paxman nominates Lord Shaftesbury

Published: Dec. 17, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Lee Miller, war photographer and model

Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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War photographer and model Lee Miller proposed by Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News

Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Just William / Richmal Crompton proposed by Peter Oborne with Martin Jarvis

Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 6:22 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 39 seconds

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Constance Agatha Cummings-John

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 2:52 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Comedian Sindhu Vee on Prince

Published: Sept. 17, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 47 seconds

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Fiona Shaw nominates the actress Eleonora Duse

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 4:47 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Fiona Shaw nominates actress Eleonora Duse

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 4:47 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Philippa Perry on the Italian educator Maria Montessori

Published: Sept. 3, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 24 seconds

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First Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald

Published: Aug. 27, 2019, 3:29 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 25 seconds

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Caroline Quentin nominates Sir John Vanbrugh

Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 24 seconds

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Caroline Quentin nominates Sir John Vanbrugh, playwright and architect

Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 24 seconds

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Laura Marling on Lou Andreas-Salome

Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Laura Marling on the first woman psychoanalyst, Lou Andreas-Salome

Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Robinson Crusoe

Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 12:32 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 47 seconds

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Ed Balls nominates Herbert Howells

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 3:38 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Kamila Shamsie chooses Asma Jahangir

Published: May 28, 2019, 3:23 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Shirley Collins on Alan Lomax

Published: May 21, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Shirley Collins on the American song-hunter Alan Lomax

Published: May 21, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Jeremy Deller on The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein

Published: May 15, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 24 seconds

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Caroline Criado-Perez on Jane Austen

Published: May 7, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Caroline Criado-Perez nominates Jane Austen

Published: May 7, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Kirill Gerstein on Ferruccio Busoni

Published: May 1, 2019, 11:29 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds

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Conductor and composer Ferruccio Busoni

Published: May 1, 2019, 11:29 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds

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Malcolm Lowry, nominated by Ian McMillan

Published: April 23, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Malcolm Lowry, writer, nominated by Ian McMillan

Published: April 23, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Catherine de Medici nominated by Helen Lewis

Published: April 18, 2019, 8:41 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, chosen by Tom Holland

Published: April 16, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 58 seconds

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Shappi Khorsandi on Emma, Lady Hamilton

Published: April 2, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 27 seconds

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Matt Lucas on Freddie Mercury

Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 54 seconds

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Rohan Silva on Colin Chapman

Published: Jan. 15, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 13 seconds

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Colin Chapman, creator of Lotus Cars, nominated by Rohan Silva

Published: Jan. 15, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 13 seconds

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Suzanne O'Sullivan on Oliver Sacks

Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Oliver Sacks chosen by neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan

Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Nikesh Shukla on the Great Gama

Published: Jan. 1, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 14 seconds

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Nikesh Shukla on the undefeated Muslim wrestler the Great Gama

Published: Jan. 1, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 14 seconds

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Sathnam Sanghera on Alexander Gardner

Published: Dec. 28, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Mark Steel on Charlie Chaplin

Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Charlie Chaplin - not just funny but a political rebel according to Mark Steel

Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Tim Smit on Humphrey Jennings

Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 12:13 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Tim Smit on Humphrey Jennings, Film Maker

Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 12:13 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Russell Kane on Evelyn Waugh

Published: Dec. 11, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Samira Ahmed on Laura Ingalls Wilder

Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds

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Pioneer girl Laura Ingalls Wilder nominated by broadcaster Samira Ahmed

Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds

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Christina Lamb on Benazir Bhutto

Published: Sept. 25, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Helen Glover on Alison Hargreaves

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 4:16 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Mark Carwardine on Douglas Adams

Published: Sept. 18, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 8 seconds

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Cherie Blair on Dame Rose Heilbron

Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Greg Jenner on Gene Kelly

Published: Sept. 5, 2018, 8:48 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 28 seconds

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Patricia Greene on Bess of Hardwick

Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Simon Evans on JS Mill

Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds

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Erica Wagner on Roald Amundsen

Published: Aug. 8, 2018, 7:39 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 11 seconds

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Hanif Kureishi on David Bowie

Published: July 31, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Barbara Stocking on Catherine the Great

Published: May 29, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 33 seconds

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Suzy Klein on Hedy Lamarr

Published: May 22, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 38 seconds

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Mica Paris on Josephine Baker

Published: May 15, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 41 seconds

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Simon Callow on Orson Welles

Published: May 9, 2018, 9:34 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 13 seconds

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Ayesha Hazarika on Jayaben Desai

Published: May 2, 2018, 9:23 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds

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Tej Lalvani on Richard Feynman

Published: May 1, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 7 seconds

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Laura Serrant on Audre Lorde

Published: April 26, 2018, 2:16 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Adrian Utley of Portishead on Miles Davis

Published: April 17, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 26 seconds

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Jim Moir on Captain Beefheart

Published: April 3, 2018, 4:48 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 47 seconds

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Gisela Stuart on Joseph Chamberlain

Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 2:12 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 13 seconds

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Great Lives

Published: Jan. 23, 2018, 5:12 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Liza Tarbuck on Nikola Tesla

Published: Jan. 23, 2018, 5:12 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Justin Marozzi on Herodotus

Published: Jan. 16, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 34 seconds

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Hertha Ayrton

Published: Jan. 2, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Nazir Afzal on Gandhi

Published: Jan. 2, 2018, 10:28 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Daniel O'Connell

Published: Dec. 19, 2017, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 31 seconds

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Louise Richardson on Daniel O'Connell

Published: Dec. 19, 2017, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 31 seconds

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Cornelia Parker on Marcel Duchamp

Published: Dec. 12, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Will Gregory on Flann O'Brien

Published: Dec. 5, 2017, 4:58 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 23 seconds

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Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint

Published: Sept. 26, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 31 seconds

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Andrea Catherwood on Constance Markievicz

Published: Sept. 19, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 30 seconds

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Nicholas Stern on Muhammad Ali

Published: Sept. 12, 2017, 4:35 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 7 seconds

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Helen Sharman on Elsie Widdowson

Published: Sept. 5, 2017, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 41 seconds

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Tracy Chevalier on Mary Anning

Published: Aug. 29, 2017, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 3 seconds

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Don McCullin on Norman Lewis

Published: Aug. 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Maxine Peake on Ellen Wilkinson

Published: Aug. 9, 2017, 12:07 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse

Published: Aug. 8, 2017, 11:33 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 50 seconds

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Peter Williams of Jack Wills chooses Steve Jobs

Published: June 1, 2017, 11:21 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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Iain Lee on Andy Kaufman

Published: May 30, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 10 seconds

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Sue Cameron on Emma of Normandy

Published: May 16, 2017, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 23 seconds

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Steven Knight on Sitting Bull

Published: May 9, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Peaches Golding on Shirley Chisholm

Published: May 2, 2017, 3:27 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Anton Du Beke on Arnold Palmer

Published: April 25, 2017, 4:18 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Ermonela Jaho on Mother Teresa

Published: April 20, 2017, 12:13 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Germaine Greer on Dame Elizabeth Frink

Published: April 11, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Gary Kemp on EW Godwin

Published: April 4, 2017, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds

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Chris Patten on Pope John XXIII

Published: Jan. 24, 2017, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Len Goodman on Lionel Bart

Published: Jan. 17, 2017, 5:48 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds

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Akram Khan on Srinivasa Ramanujan

Published: Jan. 10, 2017, 4:55 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Suzannah Lipscomb on CS Lewis

Published: Jan. 3, 2017, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Ruth Holdaway on Helen Rollason

Published: Jan. 3, 2017, 11:31 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Orlando Murrin on Dinu Lipatti

Published: Dec. 20, 2016, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Sir Ben Kingsley on Elie Wiesel

Published: Dec. 14, 2016, 12:10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Lucy Porter on Cary Grant

Published: Dec. 2, 2016, 6:21 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Cary Grant

Published: Dec. 2, 2016, 6:21 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Cyrus Todiwala on Dadabhai Naoroji

Published: Sept. 27, 2016, 3:58 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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AA Gill on Arthur Neville Chamberlain

Published: Sept. 20, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Eliza Carthy on Caroline Norton

Published: Sept. 13, 2016, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Maureen Lipman on Dame Cicely Saunders

Published: Sept. 7, 2016, 11:02 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Tony Hawks on Marshall Rosenberg

Published: Aug. 30, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Georgina Godwin on Dag Hammarskjold

Published: Aug. 26, 2016, 5:10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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Dag Hammarskjold

Published: Aug. 26, 2016, 5:10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf

Published: Aug. 16, 2016, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Alex Salmond on Thomas Muir

Published: Aug. 9, 2016, 3:58 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Hilary Devey on Gracie Fields

Published: Aug. 2, 2016, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Frank Turner on Joseph Grimaldi

Published: May 31, 2016, 3:58 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 8 seconds

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George Fox

Published: May 24, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Charles Moore on Gordon Hamilton-Fairley

Published: May 17, 2016, 4:10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Richard the Lionheart

Published: May 16, 2016, 11:58 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Graeme Lamb on Christine Granville

Published: May 3, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal

Published: April 26, 2016, 3:50 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Ray Peacock chooses the life of Lenny Bruce

Published: April 21, 2016, 2:51 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Nancy Dell'Olio chooses the life of Lucrezia Borgia

Published: April 21, 2016, 2:07 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Anthony Horowitz chooses Alfred Hitchcock

Published: April 7, 2016, 9:27 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Anthony Horowitz chooses the life of Alfred Hitchcock

Published: April 7, 2016, 9:27 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Alfred Hitchcock

Published: April 7, 2016, 9:27 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Eliza Manningham-Buller on Abraham Lincoln

Published: Jan. 26, 2016, 4:58 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Eliza Manningham-Buller chooses Abraham Lincoln

Published: Jan. 26, 2016, 4:58 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Nitin Sawhney on Jeff Buckley

Published: Jan. 20, 2016, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Susan Calman on Molly Weir

Published: Jan. 13, 2016, 10:47 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Martin Jennings on Charles Sargeant Jagger

Published: Jan. 5, 2016, 5:33 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Precious Lunga chooses Wangari Maathai

Published: Jan. 4, 2016, 9:46 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Scientist Precious Lunga chooses Wangari Maathai

Published: Jan. 4, 2016, 9:46 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Alvin Hall chooses James Baldwin

Published: Dec. 22, 2015, 4:52 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Roger Saul chooses Gertrude Jekyll

Published: Dec. 16, 2015, 3:10 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Roger Saul founder of Mulberry chooses garden designer Gertrude Jekyll

Published: Dec. 16, 2015, 3:10 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Dickie Bird on the life of Sir Leonard Hutton

Published: Dec. 8, 2015, 4:56 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Toyah Willcox on Katharine Hepburn

Published: Sept. 29, 2015, 3:53 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Nick Stadlen on Bram Fischer

Published: Sept. 22, 2015, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Hannah Rothschild on Thelonious Monk

Published: Sept. 15, 2015, 3:58 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Monica Ali chooses Richard Francis Burton

Published: Sept. 1, 2015, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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George Washington Williams

Published: Aug. 25, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Ade Adepitan on George Washington Williams

Published: Aug. 25, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Michael Howard on Elizabeth I

Published: Aug. 19, 2015, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Vicky Pryce on Melina Mercouri

Published: Aug. 11, 2015, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Ian McKellen on Edmund Hillary

Published: Aug. 4, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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PD James by Val McDermid

Published: June 2, 2015, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Val McDermid on PD James

Published: June 2, 2015, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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David Blunkett on Louis Braille

Published: May 28, 2015, 4:14 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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US Ambassador Matthew Barzun on JG Winant

Published: May 19, 2015, 4:08 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes

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Antonia Quirke on Marlon Brando

Published: May 12, 2015, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Wendy Cope on John Clare

Published: May 5, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Dame Helen Ghosh on James Lees-Milne

Published: April 28, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Kulvinder Ghir on Zoran Music

Published: April 21, 2015, 3:31 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Rachel Johnson on Ottoline Morrell

Published: April 14, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Sir Trevor McDonald on Learie Constantine

Published: April 7, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 29 seconds

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Mervyn King on Risto Ryti

Published: Jan. 27, 2015, 5:48 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Nora Ephron

Published: Jan. 26, 2015, 12:26 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Eve Pollard on Nora Ephron

Published: Jan. 26, 2015, 12:26 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Michael Dobbs on Guy Burgess

Published: Jan. 13, 2015, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Philippa Langley on Richard III

Published: Jan. 6, 2015, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Roald Dahl

Published: Dec. 30, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Tom Solomon on Roald Dahl

Published: Dec. 30, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Michael Young

Published: Dec. 23, 2014, 5:13 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 26 seconds

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Brian Eno on Lord Young of Dartington

Published: Dec. 23, 2014, 5:13 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 26 seconds

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Laura Bates on Louisa M Alcott

Published: Dec. 16, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Laura Bates on Louisa May Alcott

Published: Dec. 16, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Arthur Smith on Emil Zatopek

Published: Dec. 9, 2014, 5:43 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Prof Edith Hall on Lucille Ball

Published: Oct. 2, 2014, 10:36 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Professor Edith Hall on Lucille Ball

Published: Oct. 2, 2014, 10:36 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Andrew Adonis on Joseph Bazalgette

Published: Oct. 2, 2014, 10:17 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Stella Rimington on Dorothy L Sayers

Published: Sept. 10, 2014, 8:15 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Labi Siffre on Arthur Ransome

Published: Sept. 9, 2014, 4:06 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Tom Shakespeare on Gramsci

Published: Sept. 2, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Ray Mears on Rommel

Published: Aug. 26, 2014, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Baroness Oona King on Ida B Wells

Published: Aug. 19, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Jazzie B on James Brown

Published: Aug. 12, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Jonathan Meades on Edward Burra

Published: Aug. 5, 2014, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Ernest Hemingway

Published: May 27, 2014, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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John Craven on Brunel

Published: May 13, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Isy Suttie on Jake Thackray

Published: May 6, 2014, 3:59 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Emma Kirkby on Henry Purcell

Published: May 6, 2014, 12:43 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 26 seconds

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Deborah Moggach on Arnold Bennett

Published: April 29, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Marcus du Sautoy on Jorge Luis Borges

Published: April 22, 2014, 3 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Sir Mark Walport on Sir Hans Sloane

Published: April 15, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Ian Curtis

Published: April 9, 2014, 7 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds

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Sarah Vine on Dante

Published: April 8, 2014, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Evelyn Glennie on Jacqueline Du Pre

Published: April 1, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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DJ Sara Cox nominates singer Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes

Published: Jan. 28, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Mark Constantine on Kahlil Gibran

Published: Jan. 23, 2014, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Meg Rosoff on Isabella Bird

Published: Jan. 23, 2014, 9:52 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Dave Allen chosen by Adil Ray

Published: Jan. 14, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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David Baddiel on John Updike

Published: Jan. 8, 2014, 10:12 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Sir David Chipperfield on Le Corbusier

Published: Dec. 31, 2013, 4:31 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Michael Horovitz on Allen Ginsberg

Published: Dec. 17, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Ricky Ross on Hank Williams

Published: Dec. 10, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Nina Simone

Published: Nov. 27, 2013, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 30 seconds

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Nancy Mitford

Published: Oct. 2, 2013, 11:28 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Al Murray on Bernard Montgomery

Published: Oct. 1, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Sir Brendan Barber on John Steinbeck

Published: Sept. 24, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Konnie Huq on Ada Lovelace

Published: Sept. 17, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Peter Bowles on George Devine

Published: Sept. 10, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Paul Mason on Louise Michel

Published: Sept. 3, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Julie Burchill on Ava Gardner

Published: Aug. 27, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Tanika Gupta on Rabindranath Tagore

Published: Aug. 20, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds

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Gabriel Gbadamosi on Fela Kuti

Published: Aug. 13, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Russell Grant on Ivor Novello

Published: Aug. 6, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds

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Russel Grant on Ivor Novello

Published: Aug. 6, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds

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Florence Nightingale

Published: June 5, 2013, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Primo Levi

Published: May 21, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Salvador Dali

Published: May 14, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Bill Shankly

Published: May 7, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Published: April 30, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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David Livingstone

Published: April 23, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Kenny Everett

Published: April 16, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Galileo

Published: April 9, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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George Bell

Published: April 2, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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William Robinson

Published: Jan. 29, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds

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Aubrey Beardsley

Published: Jan. 15, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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John Stuart Mill

Published: Jan. 8, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Grigori Rasputin

Published: Jan. 1, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 53 seconds

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Published: Dec. 25, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 58 seconds

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Jean Cocteau

Published: Dec. 11, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Dick Francis

Published: Dec. 4, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 11 seconds

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George Orwell

Published: Sept. 28, 2012, 9:02 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Edith Wharton

Published: Sept. 25, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Karel Reisz

Published: Sept. 11, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Stan Laurel

Published: Sept. 4, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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Juvenal

Published: Aug. 29, 2012, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds

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Leonard Maguire

Published: Aug. 21, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 28 seconds

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Walter Scott

Published: Aug. 14, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds

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Josephine Bonaparte

Published: Aug. 7, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Henry Cooper

Published: July 31, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds

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Sebastian Walker

Published: May 22, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Goya

Published: May 15, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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John Ford

Published: May 8, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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Edward Said

Published: April 26, 2012, 3:59 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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George Lyward

Published: April 24, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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Gertrude Stein

Published: April 17, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Oscar Wilde

Published: April 10, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Dylan Thomas

Published: April 3, 2012, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Razia Sultana

Published: Jan. 31, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Vera Brittain

Published: Jan. 24, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Gracie Allen

Published: Jan. 17, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 15 seconds

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Joseph Rotblat

Published: Jan. 10, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Lonnie Donegan

Published: Jan. 3, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Ludwig II of Bavaria

Published: Dec. 27, 2011, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Thomas Hobbes

Published: Dec. 20, 2011, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Published: Dec. 13, 2011, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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Philip K Dick

Published: Dec. 6, 2011, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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William Shakespeare

Published: Oct. 7, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Gerald Durrell

Published: Sept. 27, 2011, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Hildegard Von Bingen

Published: Sept. 20, 2011, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Edwin Lutyens

Published: Sept. 13, 2011, 4:41 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Hans Fallada

Published: Sept. 6, 2011, 4:01 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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Eduardo Paolozzi

Published: Aug. 23, 2011, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Kirsty MacColl

Published: Aug. 9, 2011, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 2 seconds

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Graham Greene

Published: Aug. 2, 2011, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds

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Harold Pinter

Published: May 24, 2011, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Jack Johnson

Published: May 17, 2011, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Petra Kelly

Published: May 10, 2011, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Lewis Carroll

Published: May 3, 2011, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Kathleen Ferrier

Published: April 26, 2011, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Simone de Beauvoir

Published: April 19, 2011, 4 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 35 seconds

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Leonard Bernstein

Published: April 12, 2011, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Thomas Edison

Published: April 5, 2011, 4 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 55 seconds

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Marcus Garvey

Published: Feb. 1, 2011, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Mary Stott

Published: Jan. 25, 2011, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds

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Gertrude Bell

Published: Jan. 18, 2011, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 2 seconds

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Aneurin Bevan

Published: Jan. 4, 2011, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds

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Sammy Davis Jr

Published: Dec. 28, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds

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Samuel Beckett

Published: Dec. 21, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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DH Lawrence

Published: Dec. 14, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Malcolm McLaren

Published: Dec. 7, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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Walt Disney

Published: Sept. 28, 2010, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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Michel de Montaigne

Published: Sept. 21, 2010, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Winston Churchill

Published: Sept. 14, 2010, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Golda Meir

Published: Sept. 7, 2010, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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