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Emma Thompson
Broadcast | 28 Mar 2010
Actor, Screenwriter, Comedian
Music | Benjamin Britten - A Ceremony of Carols
Dame Joan Bakewell
Broadcast | 09 Aug 2009
Broadcaster
Music | Benjamin Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes - Dawn
Marcus du Sautoy
Broadcast | 07 Dec 2008
Mathematician
Music | Benjamin Britten - Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
Ian Bostridge
Broadcast | 26 Oct 2008
Opera singer - tenor
Music | Benjamin Britten - Now, until the break of day (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Felicity Lott
Broadcast | 13 Jul 2008
Opera singer - soprano
Music | Benjamin Britten - A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 3 (finale) (Glyndebourne 1981)
David Dimbleby
Broadcast | 24 Feb 2008
BBC journalist and presenter
Music | Benjamin Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes - Dawn
Andrew Davies
Broadcast | 05 Aug 2007
Screenwriter
Music | Benjamin Britten - Kyrie (from Missa brevis in D major)
Anthony Horowitz
Broadcast | 31 Dec 2006
Children's writer
Music | Benjamin Britten - In the midst of life (from Albert Herring)
Robert Fisk
Broadcast | 15 Oct 2006
Foreign correspondent
Music | Benjamin Britten - Dies irae (from War Requiem)
Quentin Blake
Broadcast | 01 Oct 2006
Illustrator, Children's writer
Music | Benjamin Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes - Dawn
Rt Hon Shirley Williams
Broadcast | 29 Jan 2006
President of the Social Democrat Party, Politician - Social Democrat Party
Music | Benjamin Britten - So Abram rose and clave the wood (from War Requiem)
Maggi Hambling
Broadcast | 18 Dec 2005
Artist
Music | Benjamin Britten - Lacrimosa (from War Requiem)
Mary Midgley
Broadcast | 20 Nov 2005
Philosopher
Music | Benjamin Britten - Dirge (from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings)
Patrick Stewart
Broadcast | 17 Apr 2005
Star Trek actor
Music | Benjamin Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Sister Frances Dominica
Broadcast | 08 Feb 2004
Pioneer of the Hospice movement
Music | Benjamin Britten - Sanctus (from War Requiem)
Pat Barker
Broadcast | 07 Dec 2003
Novelist, Booker Prize winner
Music | Benjamin Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes - Dawn
Fiona Reynolds
Broadcast | 07 Apr 2002
Director General of the National Trust
Music | Benjamin Britten - Oh! Hang at open doors the net (from Peter Grimes)
Fay Godwin
Broadcast | 17 Mar 2002
Landscape Photographer
Music | Benjamin Britten - Suite for Solo Cello No.1 - 5th movement
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