<p>Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Rory Sutherland on Johnny Ramone | 2021-12-14 | ||
| JRR Tolkien, creator of The Hobbit | 2021-12-07 | ||
| Ruth Rogers on James Baldwin | 2021-09-28 | ||
| Yanis Varoufakis on Hypatia | 2021-09-21 | ||
| Dorothy Byrne on Catherine of Siena | 2021-09-14 | ||
| Peggy Seeger on her husband Ewan MacColl | 2021-09-07 | ||
| Josiah Wedgwood, master potter | 2021-09-01 | ||
| Frantz Fanon | 2021-08-24 | ||
| Althea Gibson | 2021-08-17 | ||
| Yehudi Menuhin | 2021-08-10 | ||
| Hans Christian Andersen | 2021-08-03 | ||
| The Surprise Lives | 2021-06-03 | ||
| Rosie Millard on Edward III | 2021-05-25 | ||
| Ben Miller on William Hazlitt | 2021-05-18 | ||
| Arlo Parks on Elliott Smith | 2021-05-12 | ||
| Jonathan Dimbleby on Harry Hopkins | 2021-05-06 | ||
| KT Tunstall on Ivor Cutler | 2021-04-27 | ||
| Black and British pioneer Kenny Lynch | 2021-04-20 | ||
| Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist | 2021-04-15 | ||
| The Talented Mr Ripley author, Patricia Highsmith | 2021-04-07 |