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Raymond Blanc on Professor Nicholas Kurti
Jun 9, 2025 – 27:39 -
Dervla Murphy, author of the classic Full Tilt
Jun 2, 2025 – 27:38 -
Ned Ludd mythical leader of the Luddites
May 26, 2025 – 27:43 -
Richey Edwards of The Manic Street Preachers
May 19, 2025 – 27:40 -
Benny Hill
May 12, 2025 – 27:28 -
Maggi Hambling picks muse and lover Henrietta Moraes
May 5, 2025 – 27:35 -
Harriet Harman on Maria Callas
Apr 29, 2025 – 27:57 -
Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows
Apr 9, 2025 – 27:56 -
Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison
Mar 3, 2025 – 27:00 -
Jake Arnott on John Gay
Mar 3, 2025 – 27:42 -
Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
Feb 24, 2025 – 27:59 -
A N Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Feb 17, 2025 – 27:47 -
Jessica Fostekew on Boudica
Feb 10, 2025 – 27:44 -
Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs
Feb 3, 2025 – 27:41 -
Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott
Jan 27, 2025 – 27:48 -
Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn
Jan 20, 2025 – 28:06 -
Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore
Jan 13, 2025 – 27:59 -
Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau
Jan 6, 2025 – 28:07 -
Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu
Sep 23, 2024 – 27:47 -
Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris
Sep 16, 2024 – 27:46 -
The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis
Sep 2, 2024 – 27:44 -
The Roman Emperor Nero
Aug 26, 2024 – 27:36 -
Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe
Aug 19, 2024 – 27:47 -
Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint
Aug 13, 2024 – 27:52 -
Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens
Aug 5, 2024 – 27:54 -
Mary Portas on Anita Roddick
May 27, 2024 – 27:48 -
Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem
May 13, 2024 – 27:54 -
Queen Emma
May 7, 2024 – 27:37 -
James Dyson on Frank Whittle
Apr 29, 2024 – 27:54 -
Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit
Apr 22, 2024 – 27:49 -
Antoni Gaudi
Apr 15, 2024 – 27:23 -
Sir Bruce Forsyth
Apr 8, 2024 – 27:43 -
Harry Enfield on Gerard Hoffnung
Apr 1, 2024 – 27:56 -
Alan Freeman picked by Simon Mayo
Jan 23, 2024 – 27:50 -
Actor Niamh Cusack on the life of poet Mary Oliver
Jan 16, 2024 – 28:24 -
Mr Motivator picks Harry Belafonte
Jan 9, 2024 – 28:30 -
Jimmy Wales on Thomas Jefferson
Jan 2, 2024 – 27:49 -
Eartha Kitt proposed by Faye Tozer
Dec 26, 2023 – 28:27 -
John Gray on JG Ballard
Dec 19, 2023 – 28:25 -
Iszi Lawrence on Diana Barnato Walker
Dec 14, 2023 – 28:52 -
Mohammad Mossadegh, PM of Iran ousted in a coup
Dec 5, 2023 – 28:17 -
Ludwig Koch
Sep 29, 2023 – 27:46 -
Lady Eve Balfour
Sep 29, 2023 – 27:41 -
Ken Loach on Gerrard Winstanley
Sep 29, 2023 – 27:44 -
Chi-chi Nwanoku on Jessye Norman
Sep 19, 2023 – 27:51 -
Ninette de Valois
Sep 5, 2023 – 27:51 -
Sophie Scott on Hattie Jacques
Aug 15, 2023 – 27:51 -
Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore and London Zoo
Aug 8, 2023 – 27:35 -
Susie Dent on Thomas Mann
Aug 1, 2023 – 27:56 -
Tony Benn
Jun 1, 2023 – 27:51
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