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M. R. James
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Rob Newman on Franklin D Roosevelt
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Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse
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GreatLives: Florence Nightingale 28 May 13
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Adrian Utley of Portishead on Miles Davis
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Rosalind Franklin picked by Kate Bingham, former head of the UK government's vaccine taskforce
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Richey Edwards of The Manic Street Preachers
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Marcus Garvey
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Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf
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Jim Moir on Captain Beefheart
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Kurt Vonnegut and Josie Long
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Lady Hale on Lady Rhondda
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Gil Scott-Heron
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Olivia Laing on Christopher Lloyd, Gardener and Writer
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Ian McKellen on Edmund Hillary
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GreatLives: John Steinbeck 24 Sept 13
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Rick Stein on Jim Morrison
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Alvin Hall chooses James Baldwin
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Susan Calman on Molly Weir
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Captain Morgan
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GreatLives: Salvador Dali 14 May 13
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GreatLives: Marlon Brando by Antonia Quirke
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Hannah Rothschild on Thelonius Monk
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Nitin Sawhney on Jeff Buckley
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Iain Lee on Andy Kaufman
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Philippa Perry on the Italian educator Maria Montessori
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Arlo Parks on Elliott Smith
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Yanis Varoufakis on Hypatia
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William Lever, Lord Leverhulme, founder of Unilever
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Spike Milligan
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Lolita Chakrabarti on actor Ira Aldridge
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Romy Gill on poet Amrita Pritam
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George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood nominated by Lesley Garrett
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Bonnie Greer on the Women of the Morant Bay Rebellion
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A N Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison
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Ned Ludd mythical leader of the Luddites
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George Orwell
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GreatLives: Ludwig Wittgenstein 13 Dec 11
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GreatLives: David Livingstone 23 Apr 13
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GreatLives: Ada Lovelace
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GreatLives: Bernard Montgomery 01 Oct 13
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Radio 4
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Hanif Kureishi on David Bowie
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Oliver Sacks chosen by neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan
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Rosie Millard on Edward III
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Yehudi Menuhin
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Frantz Fanon
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