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Former athlete Steve Cram nominates ‘Flying Finn’ Paavo Nurmi. Matthew Parris presents.
Comedian Rhona Cameron chooses the German-American writer and poet, Charles Bukowski.
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss chooses horror film star, Peter Cushing.
Mountaineer Joe Simpson takes up the cause of the pioneering Austrian climber Hermann Buhl
Jacqueline Wilson chooses the writer Katherine Mansfield. With Angela Smith as witness.
Roger Graef champions the great comic Groucho Marx.
Richard Sykes champions Sir Howard Florey, a forgotten man in the discovery of penicillin.
Travel writer Redmond O'Hanlon proposes the pioneering naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
Quentin Blake nominates illustrator George Cruikshank.
Impressionist Jan Ravens chooses the award-winning actress, Dame Thora Hird.
British General Sir Michael Rose selects 'Father of the American Nation' George Washington
Chef and novelist Prue Leith chooses cookery writer Elizabeth David.
John Motson nominates former Nottingham Forest FC manager Brian Clough.
Blur drummer David Rowntree discusses the life of Lord Denning.
Conceptual artist Michael Craig-Martin talks about avant-garde composer John Cage.
Engineer Alex Moulton and the Earl of Snowdon talk about the life of Alec Issigonis.
Artist and sculptor Maggi Hambling nominates Rembrandt as her choice of a great life.
Northern Ireland politician Lord David Trimble chooses Elvis Presley.
Jude Kelly nominates legendary Edwardian theatre producer Lilian Baylis.
Dr Phil Hammond chooses the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, George Bernard Shaw.
Archaeologist Barry Cunliffe nominates ancient Roman leader Julius Caesar.
Theatre director, actress and writer Yvonne Brewster nominates poet Claude McKay.
Fiona Bruce chooses the femme fatale, international spy and exotic dancer, Mata Hari.
Singer and actress Pauline Black chooses a jazz legend, the singer Billie Holiday.
Pallab Ghosh explains how Marie Curie achieved fame through her work on radioactivity.
Author William Boyd champions playwright Anton Chekhov's claim to greatness.
Nick Danziger breaks the programme's rules with comic book adventurer, Tintin.
With Matthew Parris. Phill Jupitus nominates former Clash frontman Joe Strummer.
Ann Widdicombe MP nominates the late pontiff, who agreed with her on women priests.
Anne Fine nominates the author of the report that became the basis for the Welfare State.
