388 Episodes

  1. Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables

    Published: 4/21/2020
  2. Frank Cottrell Boyce on Tove Jansson

    Published: 4/14/2020
  3. Rick Stein on Jim Morrison

    Published: 4/10/2020
  4. Andi Oliver on Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison

    Published: 1/21/2020
  5. Kurt Vonnegut and Josie Long

    Published: 1/10/2020
  6. Charlie Parker nominated by Ken Clarke

    Published: 1/3/2020
  7. Bill Bailey on his hero Alfred Russel Wallace

    Published: 12/24/2019
  8. Novelist Enid Blyton

    Published: 12/24/2019
  9. Jeremy Paxman nominates Lord Shaftesbury

    Published: 12/17/2019
  10. War photographer and model Lee Miller proposed by Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News

    Published: 12/10/2019
  11. Just William / Richmal Crompton proposed by Peter Oborne with Martin Jarvis

    Published: 12/3/2019
  12. Constance Agatha Cummings-John

    Published: 10/7/2019
  13. Comedian Sindhu Vee on Prince

    Published: 9/17/2019
  14. Fiona Shaw nominates actress Eleonora Duse

    Published: 9/12/2019
  15. Philippa Perry on the Italian educator Maria Montessori

    Published: 9/3/2019
  16. First Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald

    Published: 8/27/2019
  17. Caroline Quentin nominates Sir John Vanbrugh, playwright and architect

    Published: 8/20/2019
  18. Laura Marling on the first woman psychoanalyst, Lou Andreas-Salome

    Published: 8/13/2019
  19. Robinson Crusoe

    Published: 8/13/2019
  20. Ed Balls nominates Herbert Howells

    Published: 8/12/2019

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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.