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Dr Michael O'Donnell discusses celebrated singer, actor and choreographer Fred Astaire.
Musician Andy Sheppard chooses influential saxophonist John Coltrane.
Broadcaster and DJ Colin Murray chooses Frank Sinatra.
Ruby Wax discusses the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung.
David Mellor promotes the life of conductor Sir Thomas Beecham.
Journalist Polly Toynbee chooses one of the most noted of post-war politicians Roy Jenkins
Television and radio presenter Stuart Hall discusses his lifelong hero, Napoleon Bonaparte
Ken Livingstone discusses his hero, US politician Robert Kennedy.
Horticulturalist Rachel De Thame champions her heroine, the ballerina Margot Fonteyn.
Poet Pam Ayres chooses the lad himself, Tony Hancock.
Tracy-Ann Oberman champions the life of one of the silver screen's most enduring icons.
Actor David Soul champions the life of German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
The Snowman author Raymond Briggs chooses JB Morton, aka Beachcomber.
Michael Grade and William G Stewart champion the life of theatrical agent Billy Marsh.
Luciano Pavarotti is nominated by the music promoter Harvey Goldsmith.
Eighteenth-century satirist and painter William Hogarth is nominated by Ian Hislop.
Deborah Meaden nominates the Georgian hostess, diplomat and spy Lady Hester Stanhope.
General Mike Jackson nominates Field Marshal Bill Slim, leader of the WW2 Burma campaign.
Lesley Riddoch nominates former Loyalist paramilitary turned politician David Ervine.
Former chancellor George Osborne nominates Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty.
Bob Harris nominates Alan Freed, the first ever rock 'n' roll DJ.
David Attenborough nominates the largely forgotten 17th-century inventor and illustrator.
Skills minister David Lammy puts the case for the revolutionary comedian Richard Pryor.
Jon Snow champions jails reform campaigner and politician, Lord Longford.
Author Colin Dexter nominates scholar and poet AE Housman. With Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
Arabella Weir nominates Joyce Grenfell. Biographer Janie Hampton assists.
Nicholas Parsons nominates Edward Lear, now ed best for his nonsense verse.
Poet Simon Armitage nominates Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.
Anna Ford nominates singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.
Stirling Moss nominates the great racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio.
