<p>Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.</p>

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Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu 2024-09-23
Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris 2024-09-16
The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis 2024-09-02
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
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