<p>Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| The Roman Emperor Nero | 2024-08-26 | ||
| Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe | 2024-08-19 | ||
| Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint | 2024-08-13 | ||
| Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens | 2024-08-05 | ||
| Mary Portas on Anita Roddick | 2024-05-27 | ||
| Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem | 2024-05-13 | ||
| Queen Emma | 2024-05-07 | ||
| James Dyson on Frank Whittle | 2024-04-29 | ||
| Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit | 2024-04-22 | ||
| Antoni Gaudi | 2024-04-15 | ||
| Sir Bruce Forsyth | 2024-04-08 | ||
| Harry Enfield on Gerard Hoffnung | 2024-04-01 | ||
| Alan Freeman picked by Simon Mayo | 2024-01-23 | ||
| Actor Niamh Cusack on the life of poet Mary Oliver | 2024-01-16 | ||
| Mr Motivator picks Harry Belafonte | 2024-01-09 | ||
| Jimmy Wales on Thomas Jefferson | 2024-01-02 | ||
| Eartha Kitt proposed by Faye Tozer | 2023-12-26 | ||
| John Gray on JG Ballard | 2023-12-19 | ||
| Iszi Lawrence on Diana Barnato Walker | 2023-12-14 | ||
| Mohammad Mossadegh, PM of Iran ousted in a coup | 2023-12-05 |