Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah is a passionate advocate of Marcus Garvey, the inspirational black leade
The writer Katharine Whitehorn chooses Mary Stott, the great campaigning journalist and the first ed
Gertrude Bell was a British woman who arguably founded the modern state of Iraq. Explorer, mountaine
In his time, Aneurin Bevan was, according to one biographer, "the most colourful and controversial,
Lionel Blair chooses his friend and dancing partner Sammy Davis Jr. Sammy described himself as a 'on
Business guru Sir Gerry Robinson was born in Ireland but moved to England in his teens, and he choos
DH Lawrence was, in the words of Geoff Dyer, a man with thin wrists and thick trousers. He was also
Matthew Parris presents the life of the great rock and roll swindler, Malcolm McLaren, who died earl
Gerald Scarfe, merciless cartoon satirist of political figures, chooses an icon who created icons: W
Michel de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. He is known f
Winston Churchill's is the Great Life chosen by Lord Digby Jones, former Director General of the CBI
Golda Meir was the Iron Lady of Israeli politics, a straight-talking, intransigent leader who once s
