• THE SURPRISE LIVES
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• Rosie Millard on Edward III
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• Ben Miller on William Hazlitt
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• Arlo Parks on Elliott Smith
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• Jonathan Dimbleby on Harry Hopkins.
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• KT Tunstall on Ivor Cutler
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• Black and British pioneer Kenny Lynch
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• Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist
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• The Talented Mr Ripley author, Patricia Highsmith
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• Rights activist Cesar Chavez nominated by Cori Crider
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• Caroline Catz on Delia Derbyshire
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• David Jonsson on Jean Michel Basquiat
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• Rob Rinder on Jessica Mitford.
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• Diane Morgan on Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding
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• David Spiegelhalter on Frank Ramsey
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• The Great Lives of Great Lives
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• Katherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII
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• Xuanzang, Chinese monk and traveller
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• James Graham on John Maynard Keynes
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• Sir David Adjaye on Okwui Enwezor
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• Tom Allen on Kenneth Williams
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• Ernie Bevin, forgotten political giant
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• Jessie Ware on Donna Summer
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• Peter Frankopan on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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• Frida Kahlo nominated by Author Jessie Burton
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• Mussolini
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• Dolly Alderton on Doris Day
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• Sybille Bedford, author of Jigsaw and A Legacy
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• Billy Bremner of Leeds United
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• Sally Phillips on Hollywood star Myrna Loy
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• Victoria Wood
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• The amazing Maya Angelou
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• Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables
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• Frank Cottrell Boyce on Tove Jansson
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• Rick Stein on Jim Morrison
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• Andi Oliver on Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
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• Kurt Vonnegut and Josie Long
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• Charlie Parker nominated by Ken Clarke
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• Bill Bailey on his hero Alfred Russel Wallace
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• Novelist Enid Blyton
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• Jeremy Paxman nominates Lord Shaftesbury
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• War photographer and model Lee Miller proposed by Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News
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• Just William / Richmal Crompton proposed by Peter Oborne with Martin Jarvis
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• Constance Agatha Cummings-John
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• Comedian Sindhu Vee on Prince
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• Fiona Shaw nominates actress Eleonora Duse
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• Philippa Perry on the Italian educator Maria Montessori
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• First Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
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• Caroline Quentin nominates Sir John Vanbrugh, playwright and architect
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• Laura Marling on the first woman psychoanalyst, Lou Andreas-Salome
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• Robinson Crusoe
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• Ed Balls nominates Herbert Howells
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• Kamila Shamsie chooses Asma Jahangir
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• Shirley Collins on the American song-hunter Alan Lomax
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• Jeremy Deller on The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein
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• Caroline Criado-Perez nominates Jane Austen
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• Conductor and composer Ferruccio Busoni
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• Malcolm Lowry, writer, nominated by Ian McMillan
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• Catherine de Medici nominated by Helen Lewis
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• Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, chosen by Tom Holland
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• Shappi Khorsandi on Emma, Lady Hamilton
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• Matt Lucas on Freddie Mercury
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• Colin Chapman, creator of Lotus Cars, nominated by Rohan Silva
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• Oliver Sacks chosen by neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan
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• Nikesh Shukla on the undefeated Muslim wrestler the Great Gama
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• Sathnam Sanghera on Alexander Gardner
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• Charlie Chaplin - not just funny but a political rebel according to Mark Steel
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• Tim Smit on Humphrey Jennings, Film Maker
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• Russell Kane on Evelyn Waugh
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• Pioneer girl Laura Ingalls Wilder nominated by broadcaster Samira Ahmed
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• Christina Lamb on Benazir Bhutto
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• Helen Glover on Alison Hargreaves
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• Mark Carwardine on Douglas Adams
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• Cherie Blair on Dame Rose Heilbron
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• Greg Jenner on Gene Kelly
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• Patricia Greene on Bess of Hardwick
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• Simon Evans on JS Mill
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• Erica Wagner on Roald Amundsen
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• Hanif Kureishi on David Bowie
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• Barbara Stocking on Catherine the Great
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• Suzy Klein on Hedy Lamarr
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• Mica Paris on Josephine Baker
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• Simon Callow on Orson Welles
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• Ayesha Hazarika on Jayaben Desai
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• Tej Lalvani on Richard Feynman
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• Laura Serrant on Audre Lorde
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• Adrian Utley of Portishead on Miles Davis
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• Jim Moir on Captain Beefheart
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• Gisela Stuart on Joseph Chamberlain
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• Great Lives
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• Justin Marozzi on Herodotus
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• Hertha Ayrton
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• Nazir Afzal on Gandhi
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• Daniel O'Connell
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• Cornelia Parker on Marcel Duchamp
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• Will Gregory on Flann O'Brien
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• Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint.
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• Andrea Catherwood on Constance Markievicz
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• Nicholas Stern on Muhammad Ali
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• Helen Sharman on Elsie Widdowson
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• Tracy Chevalier on Mary Anning
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• Don McCullin on Norman Lewis
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• Maxine Peake on Ellen Wilkinson
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• Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse
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• Peter Williams of Jack Wills chooses Steve Jobs
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• Iain Lee on Andy Kaufman
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• Sue Cameron on Emma of Normandy
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• Steven Knight on Sitting Bull
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• Peaches Golding on Shirley Chisholm
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• Anton du Beke on Arnold Palmer
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• Ermonela Jaho on Mother Teresa
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• Germaine Greer on Dame Elizabeth Frink
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• Gary Kemp on EW Godwin
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• Chris Patten on Pope John XXIII
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• Len Goodman on Lionel Bart
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• Akram Khan on Srinivasa Ramanujan
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• Suzannah Lipscomb on CS Lewis
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• Ruth Holdaway on Helen Rollason
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• Orlando Murrin on Dinu Lipatti
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• Sir Ben Kingsley on Elie Wiesel
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• Lucy Porter on Cary Grant
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• Cyrus Todiwala on Dadabhai Naoroji
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• AA Gill on Arthur Neville Chamberlain
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• Eliza Carthy on Caroline Norton
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• Maureen Lipman on Dame Cicely Saunders
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• Tony Hawks on Marshall Rosenberg
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• Georgina Godwin on Dag Hammarskjold
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• Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf
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• Alex Salmond on Thomas Muir
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• Hilary Devey on Gracie Fields
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• Frank Turner on Joseph Grimaldi
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• George Fox
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• Charles Moore on Gordon Hamilton-Fairley
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• Richard the Lionheart
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• Graeme Lamb on Christine Granville
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• Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal
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• Ray Peacock chooses the life of Lenny Bruce
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• Nancy Dell'Olio chooses the life of Lucrezia Borgia
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• Anthony Horowitz chooses Alfred Hitchcock
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• Eliza Manningham-Buller chooses Abraham Lincoln
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• Nitin Sawhney on Jeff Buckley
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• Susan Calman on Molly Weir
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• Martin Jennings on Charles Sargeant Jagger
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• Precious Lunga chooses Wangari Maathai
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• Alvin Hall chooses James Baldwin
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• Roger Saul chooses Gertrude Jekyll
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• Dickie Bird on the life of Sir Leonard Hutton
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• Toyah Willcox on Katharine Hepburn
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• Nick Stadlen on Bram Fischer
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• Hannah Rothschild on Thelonious Monk
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• Monica Ali chooses Richard Francis Burton
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• George Washington Williams
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• Michael Howard on Elizabeth I
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• Vicky Pryce on Melina Mercouri
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• Ian McKellen on Edmund Hillary
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• Val McDermid on PD James
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• David Blunkett on Louis Braille
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• US Ambassador Matthew Barzun on JG Winant
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• Antonia Quirke on Marlon Brando
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• Wendy Cope on John Clare
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• Dame Helen Ghosh on James Lees-Milne
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• Kulvinder Ghir on Zoran Music
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• Rachel Johnson on Ottoline Morrell
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• Sir Trevor McDonald on Learie Constantine
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• Mervyn King on Risto Ryti
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• Eve Pollard on Nora Ephron
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• Michael Dobbs on Guy Burgess
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• Philippa Langley on Richard III
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• Tom Solomon on Roald Dahl
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• Brian Eno on Lord Young of Dartington
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• Laura Bates on Louisa May Alcott
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• Arthur Smith on Emil Zátopek
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• Professor Edith Hall on Lucille Ball
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• Andrew Adonis on Joseph Bazalgette
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• Stella Rimington on Dorothy L Sayers
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• Labi Siffre on Arthur Ransome
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• Tom Shakespeare on Gramsci
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• Ray Mears on Rommel
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• Baroness Oona King on Ida B Wells
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• Jazzie B on James Brown
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• Jonathan Meades on Edward Burra
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• Ernest Hemingway
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• John Craven on Brunel
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• Isy Suttie on Jake Thackray
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• Emma Kirkby on Henry Purcell
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• Deborah Moggach on Arnold Bennett
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• Marcus du Sautoy on Jorge Luis Borges
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• Sir Mark Walport on Sir Hans Sloane
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• Ian Curtis
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• Sarah Vine on Dante
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• Evelyn Glennie on Jacqueline Du Pre
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• DJ Sara Cox nominates singer Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
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• Mark Constantine on Kahlil Gibran
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• Meg Rosoff on Isabella Bird
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• Dave Allen chosen by Adil Ray
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• David Baddiel on John Updike
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• Sir David Chipperfield on Le Corbusier
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• Michael Horovitz on Allen Ginsberg
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• Ricky Ross on Hank Williams
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• Nina Simone
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• Nancy Mitford
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• Al Murray on Bernard Montgomery
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• Sir Brendan Barber on John Steinbeck
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• Konnie Huq on Ada Lovelace
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• Peter Bowles on George Devine
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• Paul Mason on Louise Michel
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• Julie Burchill on Ava Gardner
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• Tanika Gupta on Rabindranath Tagore
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• Gabriel Gbadamosi on Fela Kuti
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• Russel Grant on Ivor Novello
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• Florence Nightingale
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• Primo Levi
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• Salvador Dali
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• Bill Shankly
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• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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• David Livingstone
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• Kenny Everett
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• Galileo
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• George Bell
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• William Robinson
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• Aubrey Beardsley
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• John Stuart Mill
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• Grigori Rasputin
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• Ralph Vaughan Williams
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• Jean Cocteau
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• Dick Francis
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• George Orwell
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• Edith Wharton
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• Karel Reisz
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• Stan Laurel
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• Juvenal
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• Leonard Maguire
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• Walter Scott
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• Josephine Bonaparte
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• Henry Cooper
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• Sebastian Walker
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• Goya
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• John Ford
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• Edward Said
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• George Lyward
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• Gertrude Stein
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• Oscar Wilde
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• Dylan Thomas
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• Razia Sultana
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• Vera Brittain
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• Gracie Allen
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• Joseph Rotblat
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• Lonnie Donegan
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• Ludwig II of Bavaria
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• Thomas Hobbes
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• Ludwig Wittgenstein
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• Philip K Dick
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• William Shakespeare
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• Gerald Durrell
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• Hildegard Von Bingen
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• Edwin Lutyens
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• Hans Fallada
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• Eduardo Paolozzi
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• Kirsty MacColl
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• Graham Greene
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• Harold Pinter
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• Jack Johnson
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• Petra Kelly
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• Lewis Carroll
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• Kathleen Ferrier
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• Simone de Beauvoir
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• Leonard Bernstein
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• Thomas Edison
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• Marcus Garvey
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• Mary Stott
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• Gertrude Bell
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• Aneurin Bevan
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• Sammy Davis Jr
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• Samuel Beckett
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• DH Lawrence
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• Malcolm McLaren
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• Walt Disney
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• Michel de Montaigne
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• Winston Churchill
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• Golda Meir
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