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Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Broadcast | 07 Mar 2010
Cosmologist
Music | Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)
Mary Beard
Broadcast | 31 Jan 2010
Classicist
Music | Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)
David Dimbleby
Broadcast | 24 Feb 2008
BBC journalist and presenter
Music | Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)
Peter Mansfield
Broadcast | 18 Jun 2006
Physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Music | Henry Purcell - Abdelazar
Rt Hon Shirley Williams
Broadcast | 29 Jan 2006
President of the Social Democrat Party, Politician - Social Democrat Party
Music | Henry Purcell - The Plaint
Stephen Poliakoff
Broadcast | 13 Mar 2005
Playwright, Director
Music | Henry Purcell - O let me weep (The Plaint ) (from The Fairy Queen)
David Starkey
Broadcast | 06 Feb 2005
Historian, Broadcaster, Writer
Music | Henry Purcell - March (from the Funeral Music for Queen Mary)
U A Fanthorpe
Broadcast | 09 May 2004
Poet
Music | Henry Purcell - Come away, fellow sailors (from Dido and Aeneas)
Timothy Spall
Broadcast | 22 Sep 2002
Actor
Music | Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)
Harold Evans
Broadcast | 02 Apr 2000
Journalist, Editor
Music | Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)
Adrian Noble
Broadcast | 26 Mar 2000
Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Music | Henry Purcell - The Fairy Queen
Michael Holroyd
Broadcast | 20 Feb 2000
Biographer
Music | Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)
Michael Nyman
Broadcast | 19 Dec 1999
Composer
Music | Henry Purcell - What Power art thou? (Prelude while cold genius rises) (from King Arthur)
James Dyson
Broadcast | 20 Jun 1999
Engineer, Inventor
Music | Henry Purcell - Blessed are they that fear the Lord
Judi Dench
Broadcast | 12 Apr 1998
British actor
Music | Henry Purcell - March (from the Funeral Music for Queen Mary)
Archie Norman MP
Broadcast | 01 Mar 1998
Executive Director of ASDA, Politician - Conservative
Music | Henry Purcell - Birthday Ode 'Come ye sons of art away'
Chris Patten
Broadcast | 03 Nov 1996
Governor of Hong Kong, Politician - Conservative
Music | Henry Purcell - Sound the trumpet (from Birthday Ode 'Come ye sons of art away')
Prunella Scales
Broadcast | 31 May 1992
Fawlty Towers actor
Music | Henry Purcell - Belinda's Aria (from Dido and Aeneas)
Elvis Costello
Broadcast | 23 Feb 1992
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Music | Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)
E P Thompson
Broadcast | 03 Nov 1991
Historian, Campaigner
Music | Henry Purcell - Hark! Now all things (from The Fairy Queen)
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