All episodes
Sir Trevor McDonald on Learie Constantine
Mervyn King on Risto Ryti
Eve Pollard on Nora Ephron
Michael Dobbs on Guy Burgess
Philippa Langley on Richard III
Tom Solomon on Roald Dahl
Brian Eno on Lord Young of Dartington
Laura Bates on Louisa May Alcott
Arthur Smith on Emil Zátopek
Professor Edith Hall on Lucille Ball
Andrew Adonis on Joseph Bazalgette
Stella Rimington on Dorothy L Sayers
Labi Siffre on Arthur Ransome
Tom Shakespeare on Gramsci
Ray Mears on Rommel
Baroness Oona King on Ida B Wells
Jazzie B on James Brown
Jonathan Meades on Edward Burra
Ernest Hemingway
John Craven on Brunel
Isy Suttie on Jake Thackray
Emma Kirkby on Henry Purcell
Deborah Moggach on Arnold Bennett
Marcus du Sautoy on Jorge Luis Borges
Sir Mark Walport on Sir Hans Sloane
Ian Curtis
Sarah Vine on Dante
Evelyn Glennie on Jacqueline Du Pre
DJ Sara Cox nominates singer Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
Mark Constantine on Kahlil Gibran
Meg Rosoff on Isabella Bird
Dave Allen chosen by Adil Ray
David Baddiel on John Updike
Sir David Chipperfield on Le Corbusier
Michael Horovitz on Allen Ginsberg
Ricky Ross on Hank Williams
Nina Simone
Nancy Mitford
Al Murray on Bernard Montgomery
Sir Brendan Barber on John Steinbeck
Konnie Huq on Ada Lovelace
Peter Bowles on George Devine
Paul Mason on Louise Michel
Julie Burchill on Ava Gardner
Tanika Gupta on Rabindranath Tagore
Gabriel Gbadamosi on Fela Kuti
Russell Grant on Ivor Novello
Florence Nightingale
Primo Levi
Salvador Dali
Bill Shankly
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
David Livingstone
Kenny Everett
Galileo
George Bell
William Robinson
Aubrey Beardsley
John Stuart Mill
Grigori Rasputin
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Jean Cocteau
Dick Francis
George Orwell
Edith Wharton
Karel Reisz
Stan Laurel
Juvenal
Leonard Maguire
Walter Scott
Josephine Bonaparte
Henry Cooper
Sebastian Walker
Goya
John Ford
Edward Said
George Lyward
Gertrude Stein
Oscar Wilde
Dylan Thomas
Razia Sultana
Vera Brittain
Gracie Allen
Joseph Rotblat
Lonnie Donegan
Ludwig II of Bavaria
Thomas Hobbes
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philip K Dick
William Shakespeare
Gerald Durrell
Hildegard Von Bingen
Edwin Lutyens
Hans Fallada
Eduardo Paolozzi
Kirsty MacColl
Graham Greene
Harold Pinter
Jack Johnson
Petra Kelly