Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
Radio 4,·609 episodes
Fast Show comic Simon Day tells Matthew Parris why he is fascinated by writer Hans Fallada
06 Sep 2011,·30 mins
Poetry curator Daisy Goodwin nominates the Bard himself, William Shakespeare.
30 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Restaurateur Antonio Carluccio nominates the Scottish artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
23 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Broadcaster Janice Long champions the life and work of singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl.
09 Aug 2011,·30 mins
War reporter Tim Butcher chooses an exploration into the strange world of Graham Greene.
02 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Arabella Weir nominates Joyce Grenfell. Biographer Janie Hampton assists.
30 mins
Poet Simon Armitage nominates Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.
Green MP Caroline Lucas nominates Petra Kelly, the German Green superstar politician.
10 May 2011,·30 mins
General Mike Jackson nominates Field Marshal Bill Slim, leader of the WW2 Burma campaign.
Nicholas Parsons nominates Edward Lear, now remembered best for his nonsense verse.
Skills minister David Lammy puts the case for the revolutionary comedian Richard Pryor.
26 mins
Anna Ford nominates singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.
Broadcaster Sue MacGregor nominates singer Kathleen Ferrier who died tragically young.
Writer Lynne Truss chooses the creator of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll.
03 May 2011,·30 mins
Actress Diana Quick selects philosopher Simone de Beauvoir for Great Lives.
19 Apr 2011,·30 mins
Conductor Charles Hazlewood chooses Leonard Bernstein.
12 Apr 2011,·30 mins
Sir Clive Sinclair discusses fellow inventor Thomas Edison with Matthew Parris.
05 Apr 2011,·30 mins
Katharine Whitehorn chooses journalist and campaigner Mary Stott.
Physicist Jim al-Khalili nominates Gertrude Bell who shaped modern-day Iraq.
Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah on Marcus Garvey, the inspirational 20th-century black leader.
01 Feb 2011,·30 mins
Comedian Barry Cryer nods to his Yorkshire roots by choosing JB Priestley.
11 Jan 2011,·30 mins
Lord Kinnock chooses the life of Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS.
04 Jan 2011,·30 mins
Dancer Lionel Blair chooses his friend, Sammy Davis Jr.
28 Dec 2010,·30 mins,·
Poet John Hegley chooses the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH Lawrence.
Business guru Sir Gerry Robinson chooses playwright Samuel Beckett.
21 Dec 2010,·30 mins
Public relations expert Mark Borkowski discusses the life of the Sex Pistols' manager.
07 Dec 2010,·30 mins
Professor Robert Winston chooses a famous writer from the French Renaissance.
Gerald Scarfe chooses an icon who created icons.
28 Sep 2010,·30 mins
Edwina Currie discusses the life of former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir.
Lord Digby Jones chooses wartime leader, Winston Churchill.
14 Sep 2010,·30 mins
