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Professor Stephen Hawking, Hubert de Givenchy, Michele Hanson, Sir John Sulston, Sir Ken Dodd

Matthew Bannister on a cosmologist, a designer, a columnist, a biologist and a comedian.

• 28 mins

Brenda Dean, William McAlpine, Keith O'Brien, Katie Boyle, Garech Browne

Matthew Bannister on a union leader, a businessman, a cardinal, a presenter, a folklorist.

• 28 mins

Charles P Lazarus, Marielle Franco, John Brookes, Zena Skinner, Oskar Groning

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Drue Heinz DBE, Ray Wilkins MBE, Eric Bristow, Steven Bochco

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a philanthropist, a footballer, a darts player.

• 28 mins

Gillian Ayres, Efraín Ríos Montt, David Cobham, Nikki Sievwright, Fergus Anckorn

Matthew Bannister on an artist, a dictator, a naturalist, a model and a magician.

• 28 mins

Barbara Bush, Milos Forman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Livia Gollancz, Dale Winton

Matthew Bannister on a First Lady, a director, a conservationist, a publisher, a presenter

• 28 mins

Avicii (Tim Bergling), Ruth Nussenzweig, Anita Shreve, Guy Playfair, Bob Bura

Matthew Bannister on a DJ, a medical researcher, a novelist, a ghost hunter, an animator.

• 28 mins

Lord Martin of Springburn, Gustav Born, Valerie Riches, Caroline Brown, Michael Anderson

Matthew Bannister on an MP, a musician, a campaigner, a pharmacologist and a film director

• 28 mins

Bruce Tulloh, Emma Smith, Professor Peter Waddington, Dowager Countess of Harewood, Ronald Chesney

Matthew Bannister on a runner, an author, a sociologist, a Countess and a comedy writer.

• 28 mins

Baroness Jowell, Will Alsop, Tom Wolfe, Dennis Nilsen

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a writer, a murderer and an architect.

• 28 mins

Beth Chatto, Philip Roth, Doreen Simmons, Khurshid Drabu, June Milne.

Julian Worricker on a gardener, an author, a judge, a sumo expert, a publisher.

• 28 mins

John Ashdown-Hill, Anne Coates OBE, Dr Davida Coady, Samuel F 'Ted' Dabney, Brendan Ingle

Matthew Bannister on a film editor, a historian, a doctor, a video game pioneer, a trainer

• 28 mins

Peter Stringfellow, Graham Corbett, Kate Spade, Lord John Julius Norwich, Eli Avivi

Tina Daheley on a nightclub owner, a businessman, a fashion designer and a historian.

• 28 mins

Peter Mayer, Professor Celia Brackenridge OBE, Anthony Bourdain, Leslie Grantham, Teddy Johnson

Tina Daheley on a publisher, a sports scientist, a chef, an actor and a singer.

• 28 mins

Gennady Rozhdestvensky CBE, Maria Bueno, Gena Turgel, Zhao Kangmin, Leo Sarkisian

Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a tennis player, a holocaust survivor, an archaeologist.

• 28 mins

Joe Jackson, Paul Lamplugh OBE, Myrtle Allen, Daisy Kadibil, Paddy Feeny

Matthew Bannister on a manager, a campaigner, a chef, an escapee and a broadcaster.

• 28 mins

Dame Gillian Lynne, Peter Firmin, Reinhard Hardegen, Alan Longmuir

Matthew Bannister on a choreographer, an animator, a U-boat captain and a pop star.

• 28 mins

Lord Carrington, Karen Finch, Claude Lanzmann, Harlan Ellison

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a textile conservator, a film maker and a writer.

• 28 mins

Oliver Knussen CBE, Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE, Sam Chisholm, Steve Ditko, Anna Sándor de Kénos

Julian Worricker on a musician, an anthropologist, a media boss, an artist, an aristocrat.

• 28 mins

Charles Gimingham, Felicia Langer, Julian Tudor Hart, Anne Olivier Popham Bell, Adrian Cronauer

Julian Worricker on an ecologist, a lawyer, a doctor, an editor, and a disc jockey.

• 28 mins

Mary Ellis, Shinobu Hashimoto, Dr William McBride AO, CBE, Dr Lincoln Brower, Mahendra Kaul

Matthew Bannister on a pilot, a screenwriter, a doctor, a lepidopterist and a broadcaster.

• 28 mins

Tony Bullimore, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Barry Chuckle, June Jacobs, Tommy Peoples

Matthew Bannister on a yachtsman, a campaigner, a comedian, an activist, a fiddle player.

• 28 mins

Aretha Franklin, VS Naipaul, Winston Ntshona, Nan Joyce

Matthew Bannister on an author, an activist, an actor and a singer.

• 28 mins

Kofi Annan, Janice Tchalenko, Hugh Synge, Helen MacLeod, Hettie Williams

Julian Worricker on a diplomat, a ceramicist, a botanist, a harpist and a teacher.

• 28 mins

Lindsay Kemp, John Calder, Hilary Lister, John Calcutt, Neil Simon

Julian Worricker on a dancer, a publisher, a sailor, an academic and a playwright.

• 28 mins

Burt Reynolds, Lord Peter Melchett, Rita Borsellino, Ajit Wadekar

Matthew Bannister on a film star, an environmentalist, a campaigner, a cricketer.

• 28 mins

Lady Coleridge, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jacqueline Pearce, Lord Thomas of Macclesfield, Stan Brock

Matthew Bannister on a nurse, a warlord, an actor, a banker and a cowboy.

• 28 mins

Denis Norden, Diane Leather, Johnny Kingdom, Fenella Fielding

Andrea Catherwood on a comedy writer, an athlete, a wildlife expert and an actress.

• 28 mins

Chas Hodges, MJ Long, Arthur Mitchell, Rick Turner, Rachid Taha

Matthew Bannister on a musician, an architect, a dancer, an archaeologist and a singer.

• 28 mins

Charles Aznavour, Dr Charles Kao, Elizabeth de Mauny Wainwright, John Cunliffe

Matthew Bannister on a singer, a physicist, a journalist and a writer

• 28 mins