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470 - Mel Giedroyc on Vera Gedroits

470 - Mel Giedroyc on Vera Gedroits

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470 - Mel Giedroyc on Vera Gedroits

Mon, 02 Nov 2026
469 - Lea Ypi on Kant

Mon, 26 Oct 2026
468 - Shaun Keaveny picks Caroline Aherne

Mon, 19 Oct 2026
467 - Tony Juniper on EO Wilson

Mon, 12 Oct 2026
466 - Russell Kane on Iris Murdoch

Mon, 05 Oct 2026
465 - Ruby Tandoh on Brian Jacques author of the Redwall series

Mon, 28 Sep 2026
464 - Eric Ashby, Silent Watcher of the New Forest

Mon, 21 Sep 2026
463 - Pauline Black of The Selecter on Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex

Mon, 14 Sep 2026
462 - Actor Laurence Olivier with Derek Jacobi and Tim Walker

Fri, 14 Aug 2026
461 - Cartoonist Naji al-Ali

Tue, 02 Jun 2026
460 - Cleopatra picked by Kate Williams

Mon, 01 Jun 2026
459 - Ade Edmondson on singer Sandy Denny

Tue, 19 May 2026
458 - Tony Garnett picked by Harry Bradbeer

Tue, 19 May 2026
457 - Peter Cook picked by Jon Harvey aka Count Binface

Tue, 19 May 2026
456 - Coco Khan picks Edith Garrud, the jujitsu fighting suffragette

Tue, 19 May 2026
455 - William Gladstone, four-time PM

Tue, 19 May 2026
454 - Alistair McGowan on HE Bates

Mon, 11 May 2026
453 - Beverley Knight on Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock and roll

Mon, 11 May 2026
452 - Daisy Dunn on Marcus Agrippa, ancient Rome's king of cement

Mon, 02 Mar 2026
451 - Dr Sian Williams nominates Anna Freud

Mon, 23 Feb 2026
450 - Pianist and broadcaster Keelan Carew nominates Russian composer Nicolai Medtner

Mon, 16 Feb 2026
449 - Comedian Helen Lederer on Joan Rivers

Tue, 10 Feb 2026
448 - John Cooper Clarke on Johnny Green, road manager of The Clash

Tue, 10 Feb 2026
447 - Helen Carr picks Christine de Pizan at the Gloucester history festival

Wed, 28 Jan 2026
446 - Alex Wheatle, the Bard of Brixton

Mon, 19 Jan 2026
445 - Spitfire pilot Jeffrey Quill picked by astronaut Tim Peake

Mon, 12 Jan 2026
444 - Oliver Postgate

Mon, 03 Nov 2025
443 - Sylvia Plath

Mon, 27 Oct 2025
442 - Elizabeth Day on Hatshepsut

Mon, 20 Oct 2025
441 - Comedian Stewart Lee on Derek Bailey

Mon, 13 Oct 2025
440 - Jock Stein, first British football manager to win the European Cup

Mon, 06 Oct 2025
439 - Benjamin Franklin

Mon, 29 Sep 2025
438 - Miles Jupp on JL Carr, author of A Month in the Country

Mon, 22 Sep 2025
437 - Helen Castor on Richard II

Mon, 15 Sep 2025
436 - DJ Deb Grant on John Prine

Mon, 08 Sep 2025
435 - Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana

Mon, 30 Jun 2025
434 - Emily Williamson, co-founder of the RSPB

Mon, 23 Jun 2025
433 - Tina Turner

Mon, 16 Jun 2025
432 - Raymond Blanc on Professor Nicholas Kurti

Mon, 09 Jun 2025
431 - Dervla Murphy, author of the classic Full Tilt

Mon, 02 Jun 2025
430 - Ned Ludd mythical leader of the Luddites

Mon, 26 May 2025
429 - Richey Edwards of The Manic Street Preachers

Mon, 19 May 2025
428 - Benny Hill

Mon, 12 May 2025
427 - Maggi Hambling picks muse and lover Henrietta Moraes

Mon, 05 May 2025
426 - Harriet Harman on Maria Callas

Tue, 29 Apr 2025
425 - Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows

Wed, 09 Apr 2025
424 - Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison

Mon, 03 Mar 2025
423 - Jake Arnott on John Gay

Mon, 03 Mar 2025
422 - Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy

Mon, 24 Feb 2025
421 - AN Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

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