成人快手

David Jonsson on Jean Michel Basquiat

Actor David Jonsson champions artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Caroline Catz on Delia Derbyshire

Actor Caroline Catz chooses Delia Derbyshire, who realised the theme to Doctor Who.

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Rights activist Cesar Chavez nominated by Cori Crider

Human rights lawyer Cori Crider explains why she is inspired by the life of Cesar Chavez.

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The Talented Mr Ripley author, Patricia Highsmith

Sometimes known as 'the stalker's balladeer', she is director Jonathan Kent's choice.

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Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown picks Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe.

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Black and British pioneer Kenny Lynch

Veteran black and British entertainer Kenny Lynch.

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KT Tunstall on Ivor Cutler

Singer-songwriter KT Tunstall nominates Scottish humorist Ivor Cutler

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Jonathan Dimbleby on Harry Hopkins

President Roosevelt's right hand man in World War Two, Harry Hopkins.

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Arlo Parks on Elliott Smith

Singer-songwriter Arlo Parks nominates the young life of singer Elliott Smith.

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Ben Miller on William Hazlitt

Actor and comedian Ben Miller nominates essayist William Hazlitt.

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Rosie Millard on Edward III

Rosie tells Matthew Parris that Edward III was a cultural hero who deserves greater fame.

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The Surprise Lives

A runaway rollercoaster of Great Lives.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Author of The Little Mermaid and The Emperor's New Clothes, he was 'a very strange orchid'

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Yehudi Menuhin

Violinist Tasmin Little on her hero, Sir Yehudi Menuhin.

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Althea Gibson

The first black tennis player to win Wimbledon is the choice of Professor Devi Sridhar.

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Frantz Fanon

The anti-colonial writer and psychiatrist from Martinique is the choice of Lindsay Johns

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Josiah Wedgwood, master potter

Tristram Hunt on Josiah Wedgwood, vase maker general to the universe!

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Peggy Seeger on her husband Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl - folk singer and labour activist - was born Jimmy Miller in Salford in 1915.

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Dorothy Byrne on Catherine of Siena

The president of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge champions the life of the Italian saint

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Yanis Varoufakis on Hypatia

The life and brutal death of a gifted mathematician and philosopher from the ancient world

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Ruth Rogers on James Baldwin

Ruth Rogers chooses the life of writer James Baldwin.

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JRR Tolkien, creator of The Hobbit

Niall Ferguson chooses JRR Tolkien, creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

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Rory Sutherland on Johnny Ramone

The advertising guru Rory Sutherland on the founder of the New York punk band, the Ramones

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Jeanne Baret, first woman to sail round the globe

Nina Sosanya picks Jeanne Baret, first woman round the globe.

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Noor-Un-Nissa Inayat Khan

The muslim princess who became a WW2 Special Agent

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William Lever, Lord Leverhulme, founder of Unilever

The mighty soap manufacturer, William Lever, chosen by the boss of Iceland

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Lady Hale on Lady Rhondda

Lady Hale on Lady Rhondda.

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Roma Agrawal on Mrinalini Sarabhai

The engineer and author Roma Agrawal on Indian classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai.

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Spike Milligan

Comedian and poet Henry Normal picks his comedy hero - Spike Milligan.

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Brian Cox on Lindsay Anderson

Brian Cox on Lindsay Anderson

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