Great Lives
By BBC Radio 4
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Jun 11, 2020
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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
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Cartoonist Naji al-Ali
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Cleopatra picked by Kate Williams
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Ade Edmondson on singer Sandy Denny
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May 19, 2026 |
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Tony Garnett picked by Harry Bradbeer
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May 19, 2026 |
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Peter Cook picked by Jon Harvey aka Count Binface
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May 19, 2026 |
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Coco Khan picks Edith Garrud, the jujitsu fighting suffragette
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May 19, 2026 |
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William Gladstone, four-time PM
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May 19, 2026 |
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Alistair McGowan on HE Bates
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May 11, 2026 |
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Beverley Knight on Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock and roll
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May 11, 2026 |
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Daisy Dunn on Marcus Agrippa, ancient Rome's king of cement
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Dr Sian Williams nominates Anna Freud
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Pianist and broadcaster Keelan Carew nominates Russian composer Nicolai Medtner
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Comedian Helen Lederer on Joan Rivers
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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John Cooper Clarke on Johnny Green, road manager of The Clash
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Helen Carr picks Christine de Pizan at the Gloucester history festival
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Alex Wheatle, the Bard of Brixton
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Spitfire pilot Jeffrey Quill picked by astronaut Tim Peake
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Oliver Postgate
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Sylvia Plath
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Day on Hatshepsut
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Comedian Stewart Lee on Derek Bailey
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Jock Stein, first British football manager to win the European Cup
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Benjamin Franklin
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Miles Jupp on JL Carr, author of A Month in the Country
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Helen Castor on Richard II
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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DJ Deb Grant on John Prine
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Emily Williamson, co-founder of the RSPB
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Tina Turner
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Raymond Blanc on Professor Nicholas Kurti
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Dervla Murphy, author of the classic Full Tilt
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Ned Ludd mythical leader of the Luddites
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May 26, 2025 |
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Richey Edwards of The Manic Street Preachers
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May 19, 2025 |
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Benny Hill
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May 12, 2025 |
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Maggi Hambling picks muse and lover Henrietta Moraes
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May 05, 2025 |
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Harriet Harman on Maria Callas
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Jake Arnott on John Gay
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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A N Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Jessica Fostekew on Boudica
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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The Roman Emperor Nero
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Mary Portas on Anita Roddick
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May 27, 2024 |
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Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem
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May 13, 2024 |
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Queen Emma
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May 07, 2024 |
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James Dyson on Frank Whittle
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Antoni Gaudi
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Sir Bruce Forsyth
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Harry Enfield on Gerard Hoffnung
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Alan Freeman picked by Simon Mayo
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Actor Niamh Cusack on the life of poet Mary Oliver
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Mr Motivator picks Harry Belafonte
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Jimmy Wales on Thomas Jefferson
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Eartha Kitt proposed by Faye Tozer
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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John Gray on JG Ballard
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Iszi Lawrence on Diana Barnato Walker
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Mohammad Mossadegh, PM of Iran ousted in a coup
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Ludwig Koch
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Lady Eve Balfour
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Ken Loach on Gerrard Winstanley
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Chi-chi Nwanoku on Jessye Norman
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Ninette de Valois
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Sophie Scott on Hattie Jacques
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore and London Zoo
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Susie Dent on Thomas Mann
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Tony Benn
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Jon Ronson picks Terry Hall of The Specials
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May 16, 2023 |
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Sir Edward Coke, prosecutor of Guy Fawkes
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May 10, 2023 |
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Kofi Annan
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May 02, 2023 |
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Frank Zappa
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Frederick the Great of Prussia
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Arthur Ashe
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Adjoa Andoh on Zora Neale Hurston
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Comedian Chris McCausland on Kurt Cobain
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Roger Deakin, wild swimmer and author of Waterlogged
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Minette Batters on Henry Plumb
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Bob Harris on Sir Matt Busby, Manchester United manager
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Noddy Holder on Chuck Berry
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Olivia Laing on Christopher Lloyd, Gardener and Writer
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Olia Hercules on Alla Horska, Ukrainian painter
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Bonnie Greer on the Women of the Morant Bay Rebellion
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood nominated by Lesley Garrett
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Romy Gill on poet Amrita Pritam
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Rosalind Franklin picked by Kate Bingham, former head of the UK government's vaccine taskforce
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Educationalist
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Ravi Shankar, India's famous sitar player
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Holly Walsh on BS Johnson
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Pat Nevin on Johan Cruyff
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Judy Garland
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May 31, 2022 |
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Joan Rhodes, strongest woman in the world
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May 24, 2022 |
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Rob Newman on Franklin D Roosevelt
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May 17, 2022 |
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Mr Manchester Tony Wilson nominated by Terry Christian
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May 10, 2022 |
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Gil Scott-Heron
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May 03, 2022 |
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Lolita Chakrabarti on actor Ira Aldridge
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Janet Ellis on Puffin editor Kaye Webb
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Tom Hopkinson, editor of Picture Post
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Brian Cox on Lindsay Anderson
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Spike Milligan
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Roma Agrawal on Mrinalini Sarabhai
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Lady Hale on Lady Rhondda
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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William Lever, Lord Leverhulme, founder of Unilever
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Noor-Un-Nissa Inayat Khan
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Jeanne Baret, first woman to sail round the globe
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Rory Sutherland on Johnny Ramone
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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JRR Tolkien, creator of The Hobbit
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Ruth Rogers on James Baldwin
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Yanis Varoufakis on Hypatia
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Dorothy Byrne on Catherine of Siena
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Peggy Seeger on her husband Ewan MacColl
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Josiah Wedgwood
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Frantz Fanon
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Althea Gibson
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Yehudi Menuhin
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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The Surprise Lives
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Rosie Millard on Edward III
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May 25, 2021 |
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Ben Miller on William Hazlitt
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May 18, 2021 |
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Arlo Parks on Elliott Smith
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May 12, 2021 |
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Jonathan Dimbleby on Harry Hopkins
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May 06, 2021 |
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KT Tunstall on Ivor Cutler
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Black and British pioneer Kenny Lynch
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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The Talented Mr Ripley author, Patricia Highsmith
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Rights activist Cesar Chavez nominated by Cori Crider
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Caroline Catz on Delia Derbyshire
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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David Jonsson on Jean Michel Basquiat
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Rob Rinder on Jessica Mitford
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Diane Morgan on Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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David Spiegelhalter on Frank Ramsey
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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The Great Lives of Great Lives
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Katherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Xuanzang, Chinese monk and traveller
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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James Graham on John Maynard Keynes
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Sir David Adjaye on Okwui Enwezor
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Tom Allen on Kenneth Williams
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Ernie Bevin, forgotten political giant
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Jessie Ware on Donna Summer
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Peter Frankopan on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Frida Kahlo nominated by author Jessie Burton
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Mussolini
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Dolly Alderton on Doris Day
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Sybille Bedford, author of Jigsaw and A Legacy
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May 26, 2020 |
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Billy Bremner of Leeds United
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May 19, 2020 |
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Sally Phillips on Hollywood star Myrna Loy
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May 13, 2020 |
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Victoria Wood
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May 05, 2020 |
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Maya Angelou
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Frank Cottrell Boyce on Tove Jansson
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Rick Stein on Jim Morrison
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Andi Oliver on Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Charlie Parker nominated by Ken Clarke
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Bill Bailey on his hero Alfred Russel Wallace
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Novelist Enid Blyton
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Jeremy Paxman nominates Lord Shaftesbury
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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Lee Miller, war photographer and model
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Just William / Richmal Crompton proposed by Peter Oborne with Martin Jarvis
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Constance Agatha Cummings-John
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Comedian Sindhu Vee on Prince
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Fiona Shaw nominates the actress Eleonora Duse
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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Philippa Perry on the Italian educator Maria Montessori
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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First Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Caroline Quentin nominates Sir John Vanbrugh
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Laura Marling on Lou Andreas-Salome
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Robinson Crusoe
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Ed Balls nominates Herbert Howells
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Kamila Shamsie chooses Asma Jahangir
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May 28, 2019 |
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Shirley Collins on Alan Lomax
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May 21, 2019 |
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Jeremy Deller on The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein
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May 15, 2019 |
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Caroline Criado-Perez on Jane Austen
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May 07, 2019 |
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Kirill Gerstein on Ferruccio Busoni
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May 01, 2019 |
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Malcolm Lowry, nominated by Ian McMillan
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Catherine de Medici nominated by Helen Lewis
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, chosen by Tom Holland
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Shappi Khorsandi on Emma, Lady Hamilton
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Matt Lucas on Freddie Mercury
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Rohan Silva on Colin Chapman
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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Suzanne O'Sullivan on Oliver Sacks
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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Nikesh Shukla on the Great Gama
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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Sathnam Sanghera on Alexander Gardner
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Dec 28, 2018 |
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Mark Steel on Charlie Chaplin
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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Tim Smit on Humphrey Jennings
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Russell Kane on Evelyn Waugh
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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Samira Ahmed on Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Christina Lamb on Benazir Bhutto
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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Helen Glover on Alison Hargreaves
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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Mark Carwardine on Douglas Adams
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Cherie Blair on Dame Rose Heilbron
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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Greg Jenner on Gene Kelly
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Patricia Greene on Bess of Hardwick
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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Simon Evans on JS Mill
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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Erica Wagner on Roald Amundsen
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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Hanif Kureishi on David Bowie
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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Barbara Stocking on Catherine the Great
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May 29, 2018 |
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Suzy Klein on Hedy Lamarr
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May 22, 2018 |
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Mica Paris on Josephine Baker
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May 15, 2018 |
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Simon Callow on Orson Welles
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May 09, 2018 |
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Ayesha Hazarika on Jayaben Desai
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May 02, 2018 |
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Tej Lalvani on Richard Feynman
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May 01, 2018 |
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Laura Serrant on Audre Lorde
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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Adrian Utley of Portishead on Miles Davis
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Jim Moir on Captain Beefheart
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Gisela Stuart on Joseph Chamberlain
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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Liza Tarbuck on Nikola Tesla
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Justin Marozzi on Herodotus
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Hertha Ayrton
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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Nazir Afzal on Gandhi
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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Louise Richardson on Daniel O'Connell
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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Cornelia Parker on Marcel Duchamp
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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Will Gregory on Flann O'Brien
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Andrea Catherwood on Constance Markievicz
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Nicholas Stern on Muhammad Ali
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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Helen Sharman on Elsie Widdowson
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Tracy Chevalier on Mary Anning
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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Don McCullin on Norman Lewis
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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Maxine Peake on Ellen Wilkinson
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Aug 09, 2017 |
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Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Peter Williams of Jack Wills chooses Steve Jobs
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Iain Lee on Andy Kaufman
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May 30, 2017 |
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Sue Cameron on Emma of Normandy
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May 16, 2017 |
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Steven Knight on Sitting Bull
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May 09, 2017 |
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Peaches Golding on Shirley Chisholm
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May 02, 2017 |
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Anton Du Beke on Arnold Palmer
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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Ermonela Jaho on Mother Teresa
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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Germaine Greer on Dame Elizabeth Frink
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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Gary Kemp on EW Godwin
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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Chris Patten on Pope John XXIII
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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Len Goodman on Lionel Bart
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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Akram Khan on Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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Suzannah Lipscomb on CS Lewis
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Jan 03, 2017 |
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Ruth Holdaway on Helen Rollason
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Jan 03, 2017 |
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Orlando Murrin on Dinu Lipatti
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Dec 20, 2016 |
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Sir Ben Kingsley on Elie Wiesel
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Dec 14, 2016 |
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Cary Grant
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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Cyrus Todiwala on Dadabhai Naoroji
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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AA Gill on Arthur Neville Chamberlain
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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Eliza Carthy on Caroline Norton
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Sep 13, 2016 |
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Maureen Lipman on Dame Cicely Saunders
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Sep 07, 2016 |
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Tony Hawks on Marshall Rosenberg
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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Dag Hammarskjold
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Aug 26, 2016 |
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Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf
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Aug 16, 2016 |
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Alex Salmond on Thomas Muir
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Aug 09, 2016 |
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Hilary Devey on Gracie Fields
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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Frank Turner on Joseph Grimaldi
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May 31, 2016 |
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George Fox
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May 24, 2016 |
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Charles Moore on Gordon Hamilton-Fairley
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May 17, 2016 |
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Richard the Lionheart
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May 16, 2016 |
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Graeme Lamb on Christine Granville
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May 03, 2016 |
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Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal
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Apr 26, 2016 |
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Ray Peacock chooses the life of Lenny Bruce
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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Nancy Dell'Olio chooses the life of Lucrezia Borgia
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Apr 07, 2016 |
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Eliza Manningham-Buller chooses Abraham Lincoln
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Jan 26, 2016 |
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Nitin Sawhney on Jeff Buckley
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Jan 20, 2016 |
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Susan Calman on Molly Weir
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Jan 13, 2016 |
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Martin Jennings on Charles Sargeant Jagger
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Jan 05, 2016 |
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Precious Lunga chooses Wangari Maathai
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Jan 04, 2016 |
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Alvin Hall chooses James Baldwin
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Dec 22, 2015 |
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Roger Saul chooses Gertrude Jekyll
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Dec 16, 2015 |
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Dickie Bird on the life of Sir Leonard Hutton
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Dec 08, 2015 |
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Toyah Willcox on Katharine Hepburn
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Sep 29, 2015 |
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Nick Stadlen on Bram Fischer
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Sep 22, 2015 |
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Hannah Rothschild on Thelonious Monk
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Sep 15, 2015 |
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Monica Ali chooses Richard Francis Burton
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Sep 01, 2015 |
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George Washington Williams
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Aug 25, 2015 |
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Michael Howard on Elizabeth I
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Aug 19, 2015 |
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Vicky Pryce on Melina Mercouri
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Aug 11, 2015 |
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Ian McKellen on Edmund Hillary
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Aug 04, 2015 |
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Val McDermid on PD James
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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David Blunkett on Louis Braille
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May 28, 2015 |
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US Ambassador Matthew Barzun on JG Winant
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May 19, 2015 |
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Antonia Quirke on Marlon Brando
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May 12, 2015 |
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Wendy Cope on John Clare
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May 05, 2015 |
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Dame Helen Ghosh on James Lees-Milne
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Apr 28, 2015 |
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Kulvinder Ghir on Zoran Music
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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Rachel Johnson on Ottoline Morrell
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Apr 14, 2015 |
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Sir Trevor McDonald on Learie Constantine
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Apr 07, 2015 |
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Mervyn King on Risto Ryti
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Jan 27, 2015 |
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Eve Pollard on Nora Ephron
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Jan 26, 2015 |
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Michael Dobbs on Guy Burgess
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Jan 13, 2015 |
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Philippa Langley on Richard III
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Jan 06, 2015 |
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Tom Solomon on Roald Dahl
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Dec 30, 2014 |
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Brian Eno on Lord Young of Dartington
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Dec 23, 2014 |
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Laura Bates on Louisa May Alcott
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Dec 16, 2014 |
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Arthur Smith on Emil Zátopek
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Dec 09, 2014 |
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Professor Edith Hall on Lucille Ball
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Oct 02, 2014 |
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Andrew Adonis on Joseph Bazalgette
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Oct 02, 2014 |
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Stella Rimington on Dorothy L Sayers
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Sep 10, 2014 |
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Labi Siffre on Arthur Ransome
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Sep 09, 2014 |
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Tom Shakespeare on Gramsci
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Sep 02, 2014 |
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Ray Mears on Rommel
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Aug 26, 2014 |
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Baroness Oona King on Ida B Wells
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Aug 19, 2014 |
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Jazzie B on James Brown
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Aug 12, 2014 |
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Jonathan Meades on Edward Burra
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Aug 05, 2014 |
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Ernest Hemingway
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May 27, 2014 |
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John Craven on Brunel
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May 13, 2014 |
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Isy Suttie on Jake Thackray
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May 06, 2014 |
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Emma Kirkby on Henry Purcell
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May 06, 2014 |
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Deborah Moggach on Arnold Bennett
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Apr 29, 2014 |
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Marcus du Sautoy on Jorge Luis Borges
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Apr 22, 2014 |
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Sir Mark Walport on Sir Hans Sloane
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Apr 15, 2014 |
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Ian Curtis
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Apr 09, 2014 |
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Sarah Vine on Dante
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Apr 08, 2014 |
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Evelyn Glennie on Jacqueline Du Pre
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Apr 01, 2014 |
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DJ Sara Cox nominates singer Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
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Jan 28, 2014 |
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Mark Constantine on Kahlil Gibran
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Jan 23, 2014 |
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Meg Rosoff on Isabella Bird
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Jan 23, 2014 |
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Dave Allen chosen by Adil Ray
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Jan 14, 2014 |
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David Baddiel on John Updike
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Jan 08, 2014 |
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Sir David Chipperfield on Le Corbusier
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Dec 31, 2013 |
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Michael Horovitz on Allen Ginsberg
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Dec 17, 2013 |
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Ricky Ross on Hank Williams
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Dec 10, 2013 |
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Nina Simone
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Nov 27, 2013 |
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Nancy Mitford
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Oct 02, 2013 |
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Al Murray on Bernard Montgomery
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Oct 01, 2013 |
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Sir Brendan Barber on John Steinbeck
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Sep 24, 2013 |
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Konnie Huq on Ada Lovelace
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Sep 17, 2013 |
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Peter Bowles on George Devine
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Sep 10, 2013 |
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Paul Mason on Louise Michel
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Sep 03, 2013 |
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Julie Burchill on Ava Gardner
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Aug 27, 2013 |
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Tanika Gupta on Rabindranath Tagore
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Aug 20, 2013 |
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Gabriel Gbadamosi on Fela Kuti
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Aug 13, 2013 |
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Russell Grant on Ivor Novello
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Aug 06, 2013 |
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Florence Nightingale
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Jun 05, 2013 |
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Primo Levi
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May 21, 2013 |
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Salvador Dali
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May 14, 2013 |
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Bill Shankly
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May 07, 2013 |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Apr 30, 2013 |
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David Livingstone
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Apr 23, 2013 |
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Kenny Everett
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Apr 16, 2013 |
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Galileo
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Apr 09, 2013 |
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George Bell
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Apr 02, 2013 |
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William Robinson
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Jan 29, 2013 |
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Aubrey Beardsley
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Jan 15, 2013 |
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John Stuart Mill
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Jan 08, 2013 |
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Grigori Rasputin
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Jan 01, 2013 |
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Dec 25, 2012 |
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Jean Cocteau
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Dec 11, 2012 |
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Dick Francis
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Dec 04, 2012 |
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George Orwell
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Sep 28, 2012 |
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Edith Wharton
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Sep 25, 2012 |
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Karel Reisz
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Sep 11, 2012 |
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Stan Laurel
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Juvenal
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Aug 29, 2012 |
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Leonard Maguire
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Aug 21, 2012 |
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Walter Scott
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Aug 14, 2012 |
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Josephine Bonaparte
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Aug 07, 2012 |
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Henry Cooper
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Jul 31, 2012 |
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Sebastian Walker
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May 22, 2012 |
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Goya
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May 15, 2012 |
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John Ford
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May 08, 2012 |
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Edward Said
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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George Lyward
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Apr 24, 2012 |
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Gertrude Stein
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Apr 17, 2012 |
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Oscar Wilde
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Apr 10, 2012 |
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Dylan Thomas
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Apr 03, 2012 |
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Razia Sultana
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Jan 31, 2012 |
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Vera Brittain
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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Gracie Allen
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Jan 17, 2012 |
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Joseph Rotblat
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Jan 10, 2012 |
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Lonnie Donegan
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Jan 03, 2012 |
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Ludwig II of Bavaria
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Dec 27, 2011 |
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Thomas Hobbes
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Dec 20, 2011 |
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Dec 13, 2011 |
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Philip K Dick
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Dec 06, 2011 |
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William Shakespeare
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Oct 07, 2011 |
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Gerald Durrell
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Sep 27, 2011 |
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Hildegard Von Bingen
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Sep 20, 2011 |
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Edwin Lutyens
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Sep 13, 2011 |
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Hans Fallada
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Sep 06, 2011 |
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Eduardo Paolozzi
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Aug 23, 2011 |
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Kirsty MacColl
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Aug 09, 2011 |
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Graham Greene
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Aug 02, 2011 |
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Harold Pinter
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May 24, 2011 |
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Jack Johnson
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May 17, 2011 |
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Petra Kelly
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May 10, 2011 |
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Lewis Carroll
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May 03, 2011 |
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Kathleen Ferrier
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Apr 26, 2011 |
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Apr 19, 2011 |
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Leonard Bernstein
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Apr 12, 2011 |
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Thomas Edison
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Apr 05, 2011 |
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Marcus Garvey
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Feb 01, 2011 |
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Mary Stott
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Jan 25, 2011 |
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Gertrude Bell
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Jan 18, 2011 |
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Aneurin Bevan
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Jan 04, 2011 |
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Sammy Davis Jr
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Dec 28, 2010 |
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Samuel Beckett
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Dec 21, 2010 |
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DH Lawrence
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Dec 14, 2010 |
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Malcolm McLaren
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Dec 07, 2010 |
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Walt Disney
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Sep 28, 2010 |
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Michel de Montaigne
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Sep 21, 2010 |
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Winston Churchill
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Sep 14, 2010 |
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Golda Meir
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Sep 07, 2010 |