<p>Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Eliza Manningham-Buller chooses Abraham Lincoln | 2016-01-26 | ||
| Nitin Sawhney on Jeff Buckley | 2016-01-20 | ||
| Susan Calman on Molly Weir | 2016-01-13 | ||
| Martin Jennings on Charles Sargeant Jagger | 2016-01-05 | ||
| Precious Lunga chooses Wangari Maathai | 2016-01-04 | ||
| Alvin Hall chooses James Baldwin | 2015-12-22 | ||
| Roger Saul chooses Gertrude Jekyll | 2015-12-16 | ||
| Dickie Bird on the life of Sir Leonard Hutton | 2015-12-08 | ||
| Toyah Willcox on Katharine Hepburn | 2015-09-29 | ||
| Nick Stadlen on Bram Fischer | 2015-09-22 | ||
| Hannah Rothschild on Thelonious Monk | 2015-09-15 | ||
| Monica Ali chooses Richard Francis Burton | 2015-09-01 | ||
| George Washington Williams | 2015-08-25 | ||
| Michael Howard on Elizabeth I | 2015-08-19 | ||
| Vicky Pryce on Melina Mercouri | 2015-08-11 | ||
| Ian McKellen on Edmund Hillary | 2015-08-04 | ||
| Val McDermid on PD James | 2015-06-02 | ||
| David Blunkett on Louis Braille | 2015-05-28 | ||
| US Ambassador Matthew Barzun on JG Winant | 2015-05-19 | ||
| Antonia Quirke on Marlon Brando | 2015-05-12 |