麻豆约拍

Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit

Writer Katherine Rundell nominates fellow children's author E Nesbit.

• 28 mins

James Dyson on Frank Whittle

James Dyson chooses the inventor of the jet engine, Frank Whittle.

• 28 mins

Queen Emma

Alice Roberts chooses the wife of two kings - Aethelred and Canute.

• 28 mins

Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem

Dr Hayaatun Sillem chooses the extraordinary life of Lady Rachel MacRobert.

• 28 mins

Harriet Harman on Maria Callas

Harriet Harman nominates opera star Maria Callas.

• 28 mins

Mary Portas on Anita Roddick

Mary Portas chooses the founder of The Body Shop Dame Anita Roddick as her Great Life.

• 28 mins

Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens

The great Miriam Margolyes chooses her hero, Charles Dickens

• 28 mins

Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint

Biography series in which famous guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

• 28 mins

Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe

Biographical show in which famous guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

• 28 mins

The Roman Emperor Nero

Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

• 28 mins

The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis

Biography show where famous guests pick someone from history they admire or love.

• 28 mins

Jo Brand picks American blues singer Bessie Smith

The biography show where famous guests pick someone they admire or love.

• 28 mins

Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris

Anneka Rice picks Jane Morris, wife of William Morris and muse to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

• 28 mins

Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu

Biography show where famous guests pick someone they admire or love.

• 28 mins