Catherine Hamlin, Irrfan Khan, Denis Goldberg, Ann Sayer

Matthew Bannister on an obstetrician, an actor, an activist, an athlete

• 28 mins

Little Richard, Dr Janet Carr OBE, Professor John Horton Conway, Florian Schneider

Matthew Bannister on a rock 'n' roll star, a psychologist, a mathematician, a musician

• 28 mins

Lord Robert May of Oxford, Dr Judith Darmady OBE, Mark Barkan, Saroj Lal

Matthew Bannister on a mathematical ecologist, a paediatrician, a songwriter, a campaigner

• 28 mins

Margaret Maughan, John Cumming OBE, Jerry Givens, John Langdon, Eric Weissberg

Julian Worricker on an athlete, a jazz promoter, a campaigner, a comedy writer.

• 28 mins

Dr Stanley Ho, Roger Fellows, Margaret Meek Spencer, Mory Kanté

Julian Worricker on a political campaigner, a gambling tycoon, an educationist, a musician

• 28 mins

Christo Javacheff, Cathie Sabin OBE, Dorothy Wakely, Jonathan Whitehead

Matthew Bannister on an artist, a tennis administrator, an SOE officer, a musician.

• 28 mins

Dame Vera Lynn, Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, Larry Kramer, Pierre Nkurunziza

Matthew Bannister on a neurobiologist, a campaigner, a president, a singer

• 28 mins

Sir Ian Holm, Jean Kennedy Smith, Felicity Bryan MBE, Lily Lian

Matthew Bannister on an actor, an ambassador, an agent, a singer

• 28 mins

Milton Glaser, Terry Dicks, Professor Tom Arie, Else Blangsted

Matthew Bannister on a designer, an MP, a psychiatrist, a music editor.

• 28 mins

Ennio Morricone, Sir Everton Weekes, Baroness Maddock, Earl Cameron CBE

Matthew Bannister on a composer, a cricketer, a politician, an actor

• 28 mins

Jack Charlton, Zindzi Mandela, Charles Webb, Ida Haendel

Matthew Bannister on a footballer, an activist, a writer, a violinist.

• 28 mins

John Lewis, Tony Elliott CBE, Wendy Cooling, Dr Alan Howard

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a publisher, an educationalist and a nutritionist.

• 28 mins

Stuart Wheeler, Josephine Cox, Miloš Jakeš, Peter Green

Matthew Bannister on a financier, an author, a politician, a guitarist.

• 28 mins

John Hume, Stan Mellor MBE, Paulette Wilson, Sir Alan Parker

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a jockey, a campaigner, a film director

• 28 mins

Hawa Abdi, Clive Ponting, President Lee Teng-hui, Richard Brooke

Matthew Bannister on a doctor, a whistleblower, a President, a mountaineer.

• 28 mins

Julian Bream CBE, Elizabeth Ward OBE, Chris Graham-Bell, Stuart Christie

Matthew Bannister on a guitarist, a campaigner, a publisher, an anarchist.

• 28 mins

Dr James Partridge OBE, Sally Jacobs, Angela Buxton, Philip Horniblow OBE

Julian Worricker on a designer, a campaigner, a sportswoman, an adventurer.

• 28 mins

Chadwick Boseman, Sir Kenneth Robinson, Lord Renton of Mount Harry, Doreen Davies

Matthew Bannister on: an actor, an educationalist, a politician, a BBC manager

• 28 mins

Stuart King, Comrade Duch, Deirdre Le Faye, David Bryant CBE

Julian Worricker on a pioneering humanitarian, an executioner, a scholar, a sportsman.

• 28 mins

Sir Terence Conran, Dame Diana Rigg CBE, Shere Hite, Toots Hibbert

Matthew Bannister on a designer, an actor, a researcher, a musician.

• 28 mins

Sir Harold Evans, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Alan Minter, Helen Taylor-Thompson

Julian Worricker on a journalist, a judge, a charity worker, a boxer.

• 28 mins

Juliette Greco, Bob Gore, Dame Georgina Mace, Jiri Menzel

Julian Worricker on a singer, an inventor, an ecologist and a film director.

• 28 mins

Kenzo Takada, Colonel John Waddy, Frank Windsor, Ann Getty

Matthew Bannister on a designer, a soldier, an actor, a socialite

• 28 mins

Derek Mahon, Professor Gerta Vrbová, Ang Rita Sherpa, Helena Shenel

Matthew Bannister on a poet, a physiologist, a mountaineer, a voice coach.

• 28 mins

Herbert Kretzmer, James Nash, Tom Maschler, Sister Chiara Hatton Hall

Matthew Bannister on a lyricist, an adventurer, a publisher, a nun.

• 28 mins

David Toole OBE, Professor Valerie Curtis, Frank Bough, Jill Paton Walsh CBE

Matthew Bannister on a dancer, a hygiene expert, a TV presenter, an author

• 28 mins

Sir Sean Connery, Eavan Boland, Nobby Stiles MBE, Bobby Ball

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a poet, a footballer, a comedian.

• 28 mins

Lord Sacks, John Sessions, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Jim Radford

Matthew Bannister on a rabbi, an actor, a podcaster, a singer.

• 28 mins

Des O’Connor CBE, Richard Trim OBE, Dr Ataullah Siddiqui, Edith Raymond Locke

Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a radar engineer, a scholar, an editor.

• 28 mins

Diego Maradona, Rosalind Grimshaw, Jan Morris CBE

Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a glass artist, an author

• 28 mins

Hamish MacInnes OBE, José Padilla, Anne Rasa

Matthew Bannister on a mountaineer, an ethologist, a DJ.

• 28 mins

Mario Molina, Irina Antonova, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Peter Alliss (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a chemist, a curator, a President, a golf commentator.

• 28 mins

John le Carré (pictured), Patience Thomson, Doug Scott, Dame Barbara Windsor

Matthew Bannister on an author, an educator, a mountaineer, an actor

• 28 mins

Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy, Dame Fanny Waterman

Julian Worricker on Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy and Dame Fanny Waterman

• 28 mins

Stella Tennant, George Bizos, Joan Feynman, Rishi Kapoor

Matthew Bannister on a model, a lawyer, an astrophysicist and an actor.

• 28 mins

Sir Brian Urquhart (pictured), Albert Roux, Dame Rachel Waterhouse, Gerry Marsden

Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a chef, a consumer champion, a singer.

• 28 mins

Michael Apted (pictured), Kay Ullrich, Katharine Whitehorn, Reginald Foster

Julian Worricker on a film-maker, a politician, a journalist, a translator.

• 28 mins

Phil Spector (pictured), Grace Robertson, Paul Nihill

Matthew Bannister on a record producer, a photographer, a race walker.

• 28 mins

Larry King (pictured), Catherine Ennis, Margaret Weston, Gerry Cottle

Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, an organist, a curator, a circus owner

• 28 mins

Lewis Wolpert, Cicely Tyson, Prince Khalid Abdullah and Captain Sir Tom Moore (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a biologist, an actor, a Saudi Prince and a national hero.

• 27 mins

George Shultz, Yvonne Conolly, Maureen Colquhoun, Christopher Plummer (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a headteacher, an MP and an actor.

• 27 mins

Carlos Menem (pictured), Mary Wilson, Robin Pooley, Larry Flynt

Matthew Bannister on a president, a singer, a businessman and a pornographer.

• 27 mins

Sir William Macpherson (pictured), Margaret Snyder, Eleanor Wadsworth, Iain Pattinson

Matthew Bannister on: a judge, a UN civil servant, a pilot, a comedy writer.

• 27 mins

Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (pictured), Sidney Alford, Alison Lurie, Chris Barber

Matthew Bannister on an oil minister, an explosives expert, an author and a jazz musician.

• 28 mins

Nicola Pagett (pictured), Stan Shaw, Prof John Mallard, Rupert Neve

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a “little mester”, a physicist, a recording engineer.

• 27 mins

Murray Walker (pictured), King Goodwill Zwelithini, Mary Asprey, Bunny Wailer

Julian Worricker on a king, a commentator, a charity founder, a musician.

• 27 mins

Nawal El Saadawi (pictured), Brigadier Jack Thomas, President John Magufuli, Ion Mihai Pacepa

Matthew Bannister on a feminist writer, a soldier, a president and a spy.

• 27 mins

Bob Davey MBE; George Segal (pictured); Lady Violet Aitken; Tony Hendra

Matthew Bannister on a church restorer, an actor, a power boat racer, a comedian.

• 27 mins

Doreen Lofthouse OBE, Dr Chris Doake, Barbara Hosking CBE, Bernice Cohen

Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, a glaciologist, a civil servant, an investor.

• 28 mins

Baroness Shirley Williams (pictured), Glynn Lunney, Lyn Macdonald

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a Nasa flight director and a historian.

• 28 mins

Helen McCrory (pictured), Hans Küng, Eric Gordon, George Reynolds

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a theologian, an editor, a businessman.

• 28 mins

Geoff Crowther, Isamu Akasaki, June Newton, Les McKeown (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a guide book writer, a physicist, a photographer, a pop star.

• 28 mins

Baroness O'Cathain, Michael Collins, Sharon Matola, Jim Steinman (pictured, with Meat Loaf)

Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, an astronaut, a zoo director, a songwriter.

• 28 mins

Olympia Dukakis (pictured), Eric McGraw MBE, Anthony Thwaite

Matthew Bannister on an actor, an editor and a poet.

• 28 mins

Spencer Silver, Kevin Jackson, Patricia Brown, Asfaw Yemiru

Matthew Bannister on a chemist, a writer, a codebreaker, a teacher.

• 28 mins

Sir Paul Cosford, Max Mosley (pictured), Dr Frances Rotblat, Norman Lloyd

Julian Worricker on a medical director, a motorsport boss, a scientist, an actor.

• 28 mins

Eric Carle (pictured), Helen Murray Free, Michael Parsons, Evelyn McNicol

Matthew Bannister on an author, a chemist, an engineer, a mountaineer.

• 28 mins

Lee Evans (pictured), Yuan Longping, Bill McCall, Alix Dobkin

Matthew Bannister on a sprinter, a plant scientist, a union leader, a singer.

• 28 mins

Edward de Bono, Paul Van Doren, Alastair Hanton OBE, Violetta Elvin

Matthew Bannister on a thinker, a businessman, banker, a ballerina.

• 28 mins