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Mark Gatiss
Broadcast | 23 Oct 2011
Actor
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Prof David Phillips
Broadcast | 01 May 2011
Chemist
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - The opening of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ian McMillan
Broadcast | 07 Nov 2010
Stand up poet
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Anthony Julius
Broadcast | 13 Nov 2009
Lawyer, Writer
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Call (from Five Mystical Songs)
Peter Sallis
Broadcast | 17 May 2009
Last of the Summer Wine actor
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Athene Donald
Broadcast | 22 Mar 2009
Physicist
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Dirge for two veterans (from Dona nobis pacem)
Alan Sillitoe
Broadcast | 25 Jan 2009
Novelist
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Seventeen come Sunday (from English Folk Song Suite)
Jill Balcon
Broadcast | 14 Oct 2007
Film and stage actor
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D major - 3rd movement
Neil Tennant
Broadcast | 04 Feb 2007
Singer, Songwriter
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Mary Midgley
Broadcast | 20 Nov 2005
Philosopher
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ronald Searle
Broadcast | 10 Jul 2005
Illustrator, Satirist, Writer
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Alison Richard
Broadcast | 06 Mar 2005
Academic, Anthropologist
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Spurn Point (from Four Studies in English Folk-song)
Virginia McKenna
Broadcast | 26 Sep 2004
Actor, Wildlife campaigner
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Rowan Williams
Broadcast | 22 Dec 2002
Archbishop of Canterbury Elect
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants on Dives & Lazarus - 1st Variant
Alan Titchmarsh
Broadcast | 07 Jul 2002
Horticulturalist, TV presenter, Writer
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Sir Aaron Klug
Broadcast | 12 May 2002
Former President of the Royal Society, Chemist, Nobel Prize winner
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves
Joss Ackland
Broadcast | 12 Aug 2001
British actor
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Lord Deedes
Broadcast | 05 Aug 2001
Journalist, Editor
Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
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