Dickie Bird on the life of Sir Leonard Hutton

Dickie Bird champions his hero Sir Leonard Hutton.

• 30 mins

Roger Saul chooses Gertrude Jekyll

Fashion designer Roger Saul chooses garden designer Gertrude Jekyll

• 30 mins

Alvin Hall chooses James Baldwin

Matthew Parris meets financial guru Alvin Hall, whose hero is James Baldwin.

• 30 mins

Precious Lunga chooses Wangari Maathai

Matthew Parris explores the remarkable life of Professor Wangari Maathai.

• 30 mins

Martin Jennings on Charles Sargeant Jagger

Martin Jennings nominates the British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger.

• 30 mins

Susan Calman on Molly Weir

Comedian Susan Calman chooses the life of actress Molly Weir.

• 30 mins

Nitin Sawhney on Jeff Buckley

Nitin Sawhney champions the life of American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley

• 30 mins

Eliza Manningham-Buller chooses Abraham Lincoln

Eliza Manningham-Buller on why she regards Abraham Lincoln as a great life.

• 30 mins

Alfred Hitchcock

Anthony Horowitz champions the life of Alfred Hitchcock.

• 30 mins

Nancy Dell'Olio chooses the life of Lucrezia Borgia

Nancy Dell'Olio champions the much maligned Lucrezia Borgia.

• 30 mins

Ray Peacock chooses the life of Lenny Bruce

Comedian Ray Peacock nominates the controversial life of Lenny Bruce.

• 26 mins

Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal

Playwright and actress Sudha Bhuchar nominates the life of actor Zohra Sehgal.

• 30 mins

Graeme Lamb on Christine Granville

Lt-Gen Sir Graeme Lamb champions wartime spy Christine Granville. Matthew Parris chairs

• 30 mins

Richard the Lionheart

Timmy Mallett chooses Richard the Lionheart. With Helen Castor and Matthew Parris.

• 30 mins

Charles Moore on Gordon Hamilton-Fairley

Cancer pioneer Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, killed by an IRA bomb when he was just 45.

• 30 mins

George Fox

George Fox, founder of the Quakers, nominated by Ann Limb

• 30 mins

Frank Turner on Joseph Grimaldi

Frank Turner chooses Joseph Grimaldi who changed the face of Clowning forever.

• 30 mins

Hilary Devey on Gracie Fields

The life of Dame Gracie Fields is championed by Hilary Devey. From 2016.

• 30 mins

Alex Salmond on Thomas Muir

Alex Salmond chooses Thomas Muir, whom he describes as the father of Scottish democracy.

• 30 mins

Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf

Sara Pascoe champions Virginia Woolf, author of 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'A Room of One's Own'.

• 30 mins

Dag Hammarskjold

Matthew Parris on the life and death of Dag Hammarskjold

• 30 mins

Tony Hawks on Marshall Rosenberg

The life of the creator of nonviolent communication Marshall Rosenber, with Matthew Parris

• 30 mins

Maureen Lipman on Dame Cicely Saunders

Maureen Lipman champions the life of hospice campaigner Dame Cicely Saunders.

• 30 mins

Eliza Carthy on Caroline Norton

Eliza Carthy chooses Caroline Norton who campaigned for women in the 19th-century.

• 30 mins

AA Gill on Arthur Neville Chamberlain

AA Gill nominates Arthur Neville Chamberlain as his great life.

• 30 mins

Cyrus Todiwala on Dadabhai Naoroji

Cyrus Todiwala picks Dadabhai Naoroji who in 1892 became Britain's first Asian MP.

• 30 mins

Cary Grant

Lucy Porter, the comedian and writer, champions Cary Grant as her Great Life

• 30 mins

Sir Ben Kingsley on Elie Wiesel

Sir Ben Kingsley champions the life of holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel as his great life.

• 30 mins

Orlando Murrin on Dinu Lipatti

Matthew Parris invites Orlando Murrin to discuss the life of Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti

• 30 mins

Ruth Holdaway on Helen Rollason

Ruth Holdaway picks the sports broadcaster Helen Rollason as her great life.

• 30 mins