Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis
Sept. 2, 2024
27:44
The Roman Emperor Nero
Aug. 26, 2024
27:36
Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe
Aug. 19, 2024
27:47
Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint
Aug. 13, 2024
27:52
Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens
Aug. 5, 2024
27:54
Mary Portas on Anita Roddick
May 27, 2024
27:48
Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem
May 13, 2024
Queen Emma
May 7, 2024
27:37
James Dyson on Frank Whittle
April 29, 2024
Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit
April 22, 2024
27:49
Antoni Gaudi
April 15, 2024
27:23
Sir Bruce Forsyth
April 8, 2024
27:43
Harry Enfield on Gerard Hoffnung
April 1, 2024
27:56
Alan Freeman picked by Simon Mayo
Jan. 23, 2024
27:50
Actor Niamh Cusack on the life of poet Mary Oliver
Jan. 16, 2024
28:24
Mr Motivator picks Harry Belafonte
Jan. 9, 2024
28:30
Jimmy Wales on Thomas Jefferson
Jan. 2, 2024
Eartha Kitt proposed by Faye Tozer
Dec. 26, 2023
28:27
John Gray on JG Ballard
Dec. 19, 2023
28:25
Iszi Lawrence on Diana Barnato Walker
Dec. 14, 2023
28:52
Mohammad Mossadegh, PM of Iran ousted in a coup
Dec. 5, 2023
28:17
Ludwig Koch
Sept. 29, 2023
27:46
Lady Eve Balfour
27:41
Ken Loach on Gerrard Winstanley
Chi-chi Nwanoku on Jessye Norman
Sept. 19, 2023
27:51
Ninette de Valois
Sept. 5, 2023
Sophie Scott on Hattie Jacques
Aug. 15, 2023
Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore and London Zoo
Aug. 8, 2023
27:35
Susie Dent on Thomas Mann
Aug. 1, 2023
Tony Benn
June 1, 2023
Jon Ronson picks Terry Hall of The Specials
May 16, 2023
27:11
Sir Edward Coke, prosecutor of Guy Fawkes
May 10, 2023
27:40
Kofi Annan
May 2, 2023
Frank Zappa
April 25, 2023
Frederick the Great of Prussia
April 11, 2023
Arthur Ashe
April 4, 2023
Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking
Feb. 20, 2023
Adjoa Andoh on Zora Neale Hurston
Jan. 24, 2023
27:27
Comedian Chris McCausland on Kurt Cobain
Jan. 17, 2023
Roger Deakin, wild swimmer and author of Waterlogged
Jan. 9, 2023
Minette Batters on Henry Plumb
Jan. 3, 2023
Bob Harris on Sir Matt Busby, Manchester United manager
Dec. 27, 2022
Noddy Holder on Chuck Berry
Dec. 20, 2022
Olivia Laing on Christopher Lloyd, Gardener and Writer
Dec. 13, 2022
27:39
Olia Hercules on Alla Horska, Ukrainian painter
Dec. 9, 2022
27:32
Bonnie Greer on the Women of the Morant Bay Rebellion
Sept. 28, 2022
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood nominated by Lesley Garrett
Sept. 13, 2022
27:38
Romy Gill on poet Amrita Pritam
Sept. 6, 2022
Rosalind Franklin picked by Kate Bingham, former head of the UK government's vaccine taskforce
Aug. 30, 2022
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Educationalist
Aug. 23, 2022
28:00
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