麻豆约拍

HG Wells

Writer Fay Weldon and biographer Vincent Brome discuss the life of the visionary novelist.

• 30 mins

Vivekananda

Rabbi Lionel Blue and Gwilym Beckerlegge discuss Swami Vivekananda.

• 30 mins

King Hussein

Jackie Stewart discusses his good friend King Hussein of Jordan with writer Patrick Seale.

• 30 mins

Sir Donald Wolfit

Humphrey Carpenter invites Ned Sherrin to discuss actor Sir Donald Wolfit.

• 30 mins

George Eliot

Ex-parliamentary standards commissioner Elizabeth Filkin chooses novelist George Eliot.

• 30 mins

Franz Schubert

Cellist Steven Isserlis and musicologist Brian Newbould on the composer Franz Schubert.

• 30 mins

Viscount Slim

Lord Carrington and Lord John Slim discuss military leader, Field-Marshal Viscount Slim.

• 30 mins

Alexander the Great

Writer Frederic Raphael chooses part man, part myth Alexander the Great.

• 30 mins

Louis Armstrong

Band leader Chris Barber chooses legendary jazz trumpeter, Louis Armstrong.

• 30 mins

Lord Byron

Sue Limb nominates 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' poet, Lord Byron.

• 30 mins

Tom Spring

Sports journalist Frank Keating talks about 19th-century bare-knuckle boxer Tom Spring.

• 30 mins

Katherine Graham

Broadcaster Kirsty Young chooses newspaper publisher Katherine Graham.

• 30 mins

Bernard Manning nominates Mother Teresa

Comedian Bernard Manning assesses the achievements of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

• 30 mins

Erasmus Darwin

Paul Nurse discusses scientist, inventor and poet Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles.

• 30 mins

CLR James

Darcus Howe discusses his uncle, the sportsman, writer and revolutionary CLR James.

• 30 mins

Rachel Carson

Writer Bea Campbell chooses pioneering environmental protection scientist Rachel Carson.

• 30 mins

MR James

Muriel Gray chooses the ghost story writer MR James.

• 30 mins

Umm Kulthum

Novelist Ahdaf Soueif chooses acclaimed Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum as his great life.

• 30 mins

Benedict Spinoza

Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Harry Kroto chooses the philosopher Benedict Spinoza.

• 30 mins

Richard Crossman

Politician Tam Dalyell chooses cabinet minister and political diarist Richard Crossman.

• 30 mins

James Gillray

Political cartoonist Steve Bell chooses the 18th-century caricaturist James Gillray.

• 30 mins

Captain James Cook

Media executive and broadcaster Greg Dyke chooses explorer Captain James Cook.

• 30 mins

Scott of the Antarctic

Author Beryl Bainbridge selects explorer Falcon Scott as a hidden romantic.

• 30 mins

Rachmaninov

Conductor Leonard Slatkin proposes composer Sergei Rachmaninov for great life status.

• 30 mins

Bob Marley

Poet Benjamin Zephaniah explores the life of reggae legend Bob Marley.

• 30 mins

James Hogg

Geneticist Steve Jones chooses 19th-century fiddle-playing shepherd and writer James Hogg.

• 30 mins

GK Chesterton

Richard Ingrams nominates author and journalist GK Chesterton for regularly being right.

• 30 mins

The Man in the Iron Mask

Military historian Richard Holmes nominates the mysterious Man in the Iron Mask.

• 30 mins

David Lloyd George

Athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson chooses her Welsh compatriot, politician David Lloyd George.

• 30 mins

Elizabeth I

Broadcaster and campaigner Esther Rantzen chooses Queen Elizabeth I.

• 30 mins