Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
Radio 4,·609 episodes
David Miliband discusses the life of Joe Slovo, a leading member of the ANC.
11 Aug 2009,·30 mins
Andrew Motion champions the life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate for over 40 years
04 Aug 2009,·30 mins
Journalist Misha Glenny remembers the life of anti-Mafia campaigner Giovanni Falcone.
26 May 2009,·30 mins
Dr Michael O'Donnell discusses celebrated singer, actor and choreographer Fred Astaire.
19 May 2009,·30 mins
Musician Andy Sheppard chooses influential saxophonist John Coltrane.
12 May 2009,·30 mins
Old blue eyes - Frank Sinatra is the choice of broadcaster Colin Murray.
05 May 2009,·30 mins
Ruby Wax discusses the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung.
28 Apr 2009,·30 mins
David Mellor promotes the life of conductor Sir Thomas Beecham.
21 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Journalist Polly Toynbee chooses one of the most noted of post-war politicians Roy Jenkins
14 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Ken Livingstone discusses his hero, US politician Robert Kennedy.
03 Feb 2009,·30 mins
Horticulturalist Rachel De Thame champions her heroine, the ballerina Margot Fonteyn.
27 Jan 2009,·30 mins
Poet Pam Ayres chooses the lad himself, Tony Hancock.
13 Jan 2009,·30 mins
Tracy-Ann Oberman champions the life of one of the silver screen's most enduring icons.
06 Jan 2009,·30 mins
Actor David Soul champions the life of German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
30 Dec 2008,·30 mins
The Snowman author Raymond Briggs chooses JB Morton, aka Beachcomber.
23 Dec 2008,·30 mins
Michael Grade and William G Stewart champion the life of theatrical agent Billy Marsh.
16 Dec 2008,·30 mins
Luciano Pavarotti is nominated by the music promoter Harvey Goldsmith.
09 Dec 2008,·30 mins
Eighteenth-century satirist and painter William Hogarth is nominated by Ian Hislop.
30 Sep 2008,·30 mins
Deborah Meaden chooses Georgian diplomat and spy, Lady Hester Stanhope.
23 Sep 2008,·30 mins
Lesley Riddoch nominates former Loyalist paramilitary turned politician David Ervine.
09 Sep 2008,·30 mins
Former chancellor George Osborne nominates Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty.
02 Sep 2008,·30 mins
Bob Harris nominates Alan Freed, the first ever rock 'n' roll DJ.
26 Aug 2008,·30 mins
David Attenborough nominates the largely forgotten 17th-century inventor and illustrator.
19 Aug 2008,·28 mins
Jon Snow champions jails reform campaigner and politician, Lord Longford.
05 Aug 2008,·30 mins
Author Colin Dexter nominates scholar and poet, AE Housman.
27 May 2008,·26 mins
Sir Stirling Moss selects racing drivers' driver, Juan Manuel Fangio.
22 Apr 2008,·30 mins
Former athlete Steve Cram nominates ‘Flying Finn’ Paavo Nurmi. Matthew Parris presents.
15 Apr 2008,·30 mins
Comedian Rhona Cameron chooses the German-American writer and poet, Charles Bukowski.
08 Apr 2008,·30 mins
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss chooses horror film star, Peter Cushing.
01 Apr 2008,·30 mins
Mountaineer Joe Simpson takes up the cause of the pioneering Austrian climber Hermann Buhl
29 Jan 2008,·30 mins
