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Francine Stock presents a discussion about the Soviet writer Vasily Grossman.
Composer Howard Goodall champions the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Francine Stock presents a discussion about the Glaswegian psychiatrist R D Laing.
Writer Kathy Lette proposes the blondest bombshell of them all, Mae West.
Francine Stock presents a discussion about the first Duke of Wellington.
Lord Powell nominates Ronald Reagan for great life status.
Amanda Vickery and Jenny Uglow discuss the life of the Elizabeth Gaskell.
Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah on Marcus Garvey, the inspirational 20th-century black leader.
Martin Smith, the Chairman of English National Opera proposes John D Rockefeller.
Francine Stock presents the biographical details of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's great life.
Poet Douglas Dunn nominates Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island.
Valerie Grove selects Charles M Schulz, creator of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
Comedian Linda Smith nominates musician, actor and artist Ian Dury.
TV producer Peter Bazalgette chooses the actor, lyricist and playwright, Noel Coward.
Broadcaster and campaigner Esther Rantzen chooses Queen Elizabeth I.
Comedian Bernard Manning assesses the achievements of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Sir Bruce Forsyth, nominated by the political writer and broadcaster Steve Richards
