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Matthew Bannister on

the pugnacious Australian art critic Robert Hughes, who presented the acclaimed TV series Shock of The New.

The astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell who led the building of the enormous radio telescope at Jodrell Bank

Doctor Lakshmi Sehgal, the Indian independence campaigner who raised a regiment of women to fight against the British during the second world war

The military historian and Reith Lecturer Sir John Keegan

And the controversial Austrian artist Franz West who built giant colourful sculptures and invited the public to climb on them.