Series 16
Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris
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Bob Harris nominates Alan Freed, the first ever rock 'n' roll DJ.
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Lesley Riddoch nominates former Loyalist paramilitary turned politician David Ervine.
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General Mike Jackson nominates Field Marshal Bill Slim, leader of the WW2 Burma campaign.
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Shadow Chancellor George Osborne nominates Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty.
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Deborah Meaden nominates the Georgian hostess, diplomat and spy Lady Hester Stanhope.
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Jon Snow argues the case for the prison reform campaigner and former cabinet minister.
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Skills minister David Lammy puts the case for the revolutionary comedian Richard Pryor.
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David Attenborough nominates the largely forgotten 17th-century inventor and illustrator.
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Eighteenth-century satirist and painter William Hogarth is nominated by Ian Hislop.