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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

Ray Galton, Professor Gerald Russell, Evelyn Anthony, Sir Roger Gibbs, Montserrat Caballé

Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a psychiatrist, a novelist, a financier, a singer

• 28 mins

Paul Allen, Dr Mary Midgley, Leon Lederman, Roger Mainwood

Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a philosopher, a particle physicist and an animator.

• 28 mins

Anthea Bell OBE, Captain Michael Howard, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, Cicely Berry CBE, Tony Hiller

Matthew Bannister on a translator, an army officer, a peer, a voice coach and a songwriter

• 28 mins

Wanda Ferragamo, Wim Kok, Ntozake Shange, Mohamed Sahnoun, Keith Killby

Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, a politician, a writer, a diplomat and a pacifist.

• 28 mins

Lord Heywood, Pamela Lonsdale, Sangharakshita, Tom Jago, Francis Lai

Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a producer, a Buddhist, a marketeer and a composer.

• 28 mins

Aubrey Manning, Max Levitas, Babs Beverley, Janet Paisley, Stan Lee

Matthew Bannister on a naturalist, a Communist, a singer, a writer, a comic book creator.

• 28 mins

John Large, William Goldman, Dr Sarah Ntiro, Richard Baker, Patsy Rodgers

Matthew Bannister on a screenwriter, an engineer, a broadcaster, a campaigner and a king.

• 28 mins

Baroness Trumpington, Roy Bailey, Chief Inspector Henry Stevens GC, Bernardo Bertolucci

Matthew Bannister on a baroness, a singer, a police officer and a film director.

• 28 mins

Harry Leslie Smith, Pete Shelley, Monica Sims, Professor Wendy Atkin OBE, Ivan March

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a singer, a ´óÏó´«Ã½ manager, an epidemiologist, a critic

• 28 mins