386 Episodes

  1. Rick Stein on Jim Morrison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 8/13/2019
  17. Robinson Crusoe

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

    Published: 8/12/2019
  19. Kamila Shamsie chooses Asma Jahangir

    Published: 5/28/2019
  20. Shirley Collins on the American song-hunter Alan Lomax

    Published: 5/21/2019

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