Mario Molina, Irina Antonova, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Peter Alliss (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a chemist, a curator, a President, a golf commentator.

• 28 mins

John le Carré (pictured), Patience Thomson, Doug Scott, Dame Barbara Windsor

Matthew Bannister on an author, an educator, a mountaineer, an actor

• 28 mins

Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy, Dame Fanny Waterman

Julian Worricker on Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy and Dame Fanny Waterman

• 28 mins

Stella Tennant, George Bizos, Joan Feynman, Rishi Kapoor

Matthew Bannister on a model, a lawyer, an astrophysicist and an actor.

• 28 mins

Sir Brian Urquhart (pictured), Albert Roux, Dame Rachel Waterhouse, Gerry Marsden

Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a chef, a consumer champion, a singer.

• 28 mins

Michael Apted (pictured), Kay Ullrich, Katharine Whitehorn, Reginald Foster

Julian Worricker on a film-maker, a politician, a journalist, a translator.

• 28 mins

Phil Spector (pictured), Grace Robertson, Paul Nihill

Matthew Bannister on a record producer, a photographer, a race walker.

• 28 mins

Larry King (pictured), Catherine Ennis, Margaret Weston, Gerry Cottle

Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, an organist, a curator, a circus owner

• 28 mins

Lewis Wolpert, Cicely Tyson, Prince Khalid Abdullah and Captain Sir Tom Moore (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a biologist, an actor, a Saudi Prince and a national hero.

• 27 mins

George Shultz, Yvonne Conolly, Maureen Colquhoun, Christopher Plummer (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a headteacher, an MP and an actor.

• 27 mins

Carlos Menem (pictured), Mary Wilson, Robin Pooley, Larry Flynt

Matthew Bannister on a president, a singer, a businessman and a pornographer.

• 27 mins

Sir William Macpherson (pictured), Margaret Snyder, Eleanor Wadsworth, Iain Pattinson

Matthew Bannister on: a judge, a UN civil servant, a pilot, a comedy writer.

• 27 mins

Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (pictured), Sidney Alford, Alison Lurie, Chris Barber

Matthew Bannister on an oil minister, an explosives expert, an author and a jazz musician.

• 28 mins

Nicola Pagett (pictured), Stan Shaw, Prof John Mallard, Rupert Neve

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a “little mester”, a physicist, a recording engineer.

• 27 mins

Murray Walker (pictured), King Goodwill Zwelithini, Mary Asprey, Bunny Wailer

Julian Worricker on a king, a commentator, a charity founder, a musician.

• 27 mins

Nawal El Saadawi (pictured), Brigadier Jack Thomas, President John Magufuli, Ion Mihai Pacepa

Matthew Bannister on a feminist writer, a soldier, a president and a spy.

• 27 mins

Bob Davey MBE; George Segal (pictured); Lady Violet Aitken; Tony Hendra

Matthew Bannister on a church restorer, an actor, a power boat racer, a comedian.

• 27 mins

Doreen Lofthouse OBE, Dr Chris Doake, Barbara Hosking CBE, Bernice Cohen

Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, a glaciologist, a civil servant, an investor.

• 28 mins

Baroness Shirley Williams (pictured), Glynn Lunney, Lyn Macdonald

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a Nasa flight director and a historian.

• 28 mins

Helen McCrory (pictured), Hans Küng, Eric Gordon, George Reynolds

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a theologian, an editor, a businessman.

• 28 mins

Geoff Crowther, Isamu Akasaki, June Newton, Les McKeown (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a guide book writer, a physicist, a photographer, a pop star.

• 28 mins

Baroness O'Cathain, Michael Collins, Sharon Matola, Jim Steinman (pictured, with Meat Loaf)

Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, an astronaut, a zoo director, a songwriter.

• 28 mins

Olympia Dukakis (pictured), Eric McGraw MBE, Anthony Thwaite

Matthew Bannister on an actor, an editor and a poet.

• 28 mins

Spencer Silver, Kevin Jackson, Patricia Brown, Asfaw Yemiru

Matthew Bannister on a chemist, a writer, a codebreaker, a teacher.

• 28 mins

Sir Paul Cosford, Max Mosley (pictured), Dr Frances Rotblat, Norman Lloyd

Julian Worricker on a medical director, a motorsport boss, a scientist, an actor.

• 28 mins

Eric Carle (pictured), Helen Murray Free, Michael Parsons, Evelyn McNicol

Matthew Bannister on an author, a chemist, an engineer, a mountaineer.

• 28 mins

Lee Evans (pictured), Yuan Longping, Bill McCall, Alix Dobkin

Matthew Bannister on a sprinter, a plant scientist, a union leader, a singer.

• 28 mins

Edward de Bono, Paul Van Doren, Alastair Hanton OBE, Violetta Elvin

Matthew Bannister on a thinker, a businessman, banker, a ballerina.

• 28 mins

Kenneth Kaunda, Janet Malcolm, Penny Kemp, Bob Swash

Matthew Bannister on a president, a writer, a campaigner, a producer.

• 28 mins

John McAfee (pictured), Trần Thiện Khiêm, Karla Burns, Horace 'Lyle' Hutley

Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a general, a singer, a war veteran.

• 28 mins

Donald Rumsfeld (pictured), Menelik Shabazz, Elizabeth French

Matthew Bannister on a US defense secretary, a film-maker and an archaeologist.

• 28 mins

Jehan Sadat (pictured), Michael Horovitz, Richard Ernst, Dilip Kumar

Matthew Bannister on a First Lady, a poet, a chemist, an actor

• 28 mins

Gillian Sheen (pictured), William 'Twink' Allen, Lawrence 'Benny' Goodman, Alan Lewis

Matthew Bannister on an Olympian, a horse fertility expert, a Squadron Leader, a publisher

• 28 mins

Jackie Mason (pictured), John Woodcock, Dinah Murray, Billy Lacey

Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a cricket writer, a campaigner, a marshman

• 28 mins

Sir Graham Vick (pictured), Carmel Budiardjo, Piers Plowright, Dusty Hill

Julian Worricker on an opera director, a campaigner, a radio producer and a musician.

• 28 mins

Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE (pictured), Sir Nicholas Goodison, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Joyce Shrubbs

Matthew Bannister on a poet, a stockbroker, a Muslim teacher, a military observer

• 28 mins

Una Stubbs (pictured), Gino Strada, Mo Hayder

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a surgeon, a writer

• 28 mins

Charlie Watts (pictured), Austin Mitchell, Hugh Wood, Sean Lock

Matthew Bannister on a drummer, a Labour MP, a composer and a comedian.

• 28 mins

Jill Murphy (pictured), Len Gibson, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Nanci Griffith

Matthew Bannister on an author, a prisoner of war, an artist, a country singer

• 28 mins

Sergei Kovalev (pictured), Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Abebech Gobena, Ed Asner

Matthew Bannister on a dissident, a reggae pioneer, a humanitarian, an actor

• 28 mins

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Jean-Paul Belmondo (pictured), Angela Milner, Inge Ginsberg

Datshiane Navanayagam on a revolutionary, an actor, a palaeontologist and a singer.

• 28 mins

Jimmy Greaves (pictured), Sir Clive Sinclair, Olivia Jordan, Carolyn Shoemaker

Julian Worricker on a footballer, an inventor, a translator and an astrophysicist.

• 28 mins

Lord Gowrie, Kamla Bhasin (pictured), Shirley Metherell MBE, Roger Hunt MBE

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a feminist, a charity founder, a footballer

• 28 mins

Antony Hewish (pictured), Roger Michell, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Jane Powell

Matthew Bannister on an astronomer, a director, a president and an actor.

• 28 mins

Abdul Qadeer Khan (pictured), R. Allen Gardner, Joyce Jackson, Beresford King-Smith

Matthew Bannister on a metallurgist, an ethologist, a centenarian, an orchestra manager.

• 28 mins

Colin Powell (pictured), Brendan Kennelly, Myriam Sarachik, John Clunies-Ross

Kirsty Lang on a General, a poet, a scientist and the ruler of the Cocos Islands

• 28 mins

Bernard Haitink (pictured), Victor Gregg, Ruthie Tompson, Paddy Moloney

Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a soldier, an animator, and a piper.

• 28 mins

Sir Michael Rutter (pictured), Christopher Wenner, Sister Megan Rice, Jeanette Altwegg

Matthew Bannister on a psychiatrist, a film maker, a campaigner, a figure skater

• 28 mins

Sir Archie Lamb (pictured), John Boyden, Ida Nudel, Abolhassan Banisadr

Matthew Bannister on a diplomat, a record producer, a 'refusenik' and a president.

• 28 mins

Aaron Beck, Joan Carlyle (pictured), Etel Adnan, Anne Bradford

Kirsty Lang on a psychiatrist, a soprano, a writer and a crossword solver.

• 28 mins

Ian Wallace, Rossana Banti, Ivy Nicholson (pictured), Cedric Robinson MBE

Matthew Bannister on an ornithologist, a partisan, a model, a guide

• 28 mins

Stephen Sondheim (pictured), Sir Frank Williams, Jo-Carroll Dennison

Matthew Bannister on a composer, a motor racing team owner and a beauty queen.

• 28 mins

Sir Antony Sher (pictured), Roger Phillips, Judy Totton

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a mushroom expert and a publicist.

• 28 mins

Mary Maher, Robbie Shakespeare (pictured), Anwar Ditta, Anne Rice

Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a bass player, a campaigner and an author.

• 28 mins

bell hooks (pictured), Shirley McGreal, Lionel Blair, Melvin Van Peebles

Julian Worricker on a writer, a conservationist, an entertainer, a film director.

• 28 mins

Janice Long (pictured), Marvin Hagler, Esther Bejarano, Leslie Bricusse

Julian Worricker on a DJ, a boxer, a Holocaust survivor and a songwriter.

• 28 mins

Lord Rogers (pictured), April Ashley MBE, Joan Didion, Ray Illingworth

Matthew Bannister on an architect, a transgender pioneer, a writer, a cricketer

• 28 mins

Sidney Poitier (pictured), EO Wilson, Sarah Weddington, Assunta 'Pupetta' Maresca

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a biologist, a lawyer and a mafia boss.

• 28 mins

Lord Sainsbury, David Stuart, Elizabeth Selby, Ronnie Spector (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an LGBT support worker, a photo agent, a singer

• 28 mins

Meat Loaf (pictured), André Leon Talley, Jana Bennett, Kristin Baybars

Matthew Bannister on a singer, a fashion editor, a BBC executive, a toymaker

• 28 mins

Sir Crispin Tickell, Barry Cryer (pictured), Darlene Hard, Elza Soares

Julian Worricker on a diplomat, a comedian, a sportswoman and a singer

• 28 mins

Bamber Gascoigne (pictured), Norma Waterson, Claire Tomlinson, Thich Nhat Hanh

Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a singer, a polo player and a Buddhist monk.

• 28 mins

Beryl Vertue CBE (pictured), Flavio Carboni, Phil Harvey, Lata Mangeshkar

Matthew Bannister on a producer, a 'fixer', a businessman, a singer

• 28 mins

Jamal Edwards MBE, P.J. O'Rourke (pictured), Romaine Hart OBE, Ronnie Campbell

Matthew Bannister on a music entrepreneur, a writer, a cinema owner, a crofter

• 28 mins

Sonny Ramadhin (pictured), Sister Catherine Wybourne, Captain Raymond Savage, Anna Karen

Matthew Bannister on a cricketer, a nun, a soldier and an actor

• 28 mins

Shirley Hughes (pictured), Roger Graef, Shane Warne

Matthew Bannister on a children’s author and illustrator, a documentary maker, a cricketer

• 28 mins

Mary Coombs, Paul Farmer, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, William Hurt (pictured)

John Wilson on a computer programmer, a medical anthropologist, a translator and an actor.

• 28 mins

Bruce Page, Dottie Frazier, Josephine Veasey (pictured), Maynard Davies

Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a diver, a singer and a bacon curer

• 28 mins

Madeleine Albright (pictured), Peter Padfield, Christina Smith, Sheila Paine

Matthew Bannister on a US politician, a naval historian, an entrepreneur, a textile expert

• 28 mins

Derek Mack (pictured), June Brown, Doris Derby, Dave Sales

Matthew Bannister on a rocket engineer, an actor, a civil rights campaigner, a fisherman.

• 28 mins

Jordan Mooney (pictured), Jack Higgins, Robert Ashe, David McKee

John Wilson on a punk icon, a writer, an aid worker and an illustrator.

• 28 mins

Mimi Reinhard, Sir Harrison Birtwistle (pictured), Sylvia Lancaster OBE, Letizia Battaglia

John Wilson on a Holocaust survivor, a composer, a campaigner and a photographer.

• 28 mins

Yvonne Blenkinsop (pictured), Dr Margaret Carswell, Mikhail Vasenkov, Denise Coffey

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an ornithologist, a spy, an actor

• 28 mins

Colonel Alan Jenkins, Mary Monson, Elspeth Barker, Art Rupe (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a soldier, a lawyer, an author and a music producer.

• 28 mins

Kathy Boudin, Dennis Waterman (pictured), Sidney Altman, Régine Zylberberg

Matthew Bannister on an activist, an actor, a biologist, a night club owner.

• 28 mins

Shireen Abu Akleh, Robert Gillmor, Leonid Kravchuk (pictured), Carrie White

Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an artist, a president and a hairdresser.

• 28 mins

Baroness Haleh Afshar, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Kay Mellor, Vangelis (Pictured)

Matthew Bannister on an activist, a president, a writer and a composer.

• 28 mins

Dervla Murphy, Lester Piggott (pictured), Anne Howells

Matthew Bannister on a travel writer, a jockey, a singer

• 28 mins

Amanda Claridge, Sidhu Moose Wala (pictured), Mark Sykes, Paul Vance

Matthew Bannister on an archaeologist, a rapper, a gambler and a songwriter.

• 28 mins

Dame Paula Rego (pictured), Bruce Kent, Hilary Devey CBE

Matthew Bannister on an artist, a campaigner and an entrepreneur.

• 28 mins

Dom Phillips (pictured), Stephen S. Thompson, Caroline Drummond, Maureen Hiron

Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a writer, a farming campaigner and a games inventor.

• 28 mins

Dame Deborah James (pictured), Yves Coppens, Revel Guest OBE, Samuel Bhima

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a palaeontologist, a film producer and a doctor.

• 28 mins

Baroness Greengross OBE (pictured), Sonny Barger, Technoblade, Qin Yi

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a Hell’s Angel, a YouTuber and an actor.

• 28 mins

Shinzo Abe (pictured), Mona Hammond OBE, Lorna de Smidt, Monty Norman

Kirsty Lang on a prime minister, an actor, an activist and a composer.

• 28 mins

Tony Sirico (pictured), José Eduardo dos Santos, Ann Shulgin, Ivana Trump

John Wilson on an actor, a president, a therapist and a businesswoman.

• 28 mins

Lord David Trimble (pictured), Susie Steiner, Uwe Seeler

John Wilson on a peacemaker, an author and a football legend.

• 28 mins

Bernard Cribbins OBE (pictured), Diana Kennedy MBE, Sir Colin Blakemore, Nichelle Nichols

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a food writer, a neuroscientist, and an actor.

• 28 mins

James Lovelock, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Roy Hackett MBE, Dame Olivia Newton-John

Kirsty Lang on a scientist, a terrorist, an activist and a film star.

• 28 mins

Lamont Dozier, Joan Lingard, Issey Miyake, Edana Minghella

John Wilson on a songwriter, a children's author, a fashion designer, a researcher

• 28 mins

Margaret Keane, Keith Smith, Mario Fiorentini, Brenda Fisher

Matthew Bannister on an artist, an entrepreneur, a partisan and a swimmer.

• 28 mins

Mikhail Gorbachev, Stella 'Jaye' Edwards, Jerry Allison

Matthew Bannister on a president, a pilot and a drummer.

• 28 mins

Bill Turnbull, Anne Sutton, Norah Vincent, Drummie Zeb

Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a historian, a writer, a drummer

• 28 mins

Jean-Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dennis Wilson, Mavis Nicholson

Kirsty Lang on a film-maker, a writer, a war poet and a broadcaster.

• 28 mins

Dame Hilary Mantel, John McVicar, Joyce Reynolds, Paul Sartin

Matthew Bannister on an author, an ex-offender, a classicist and a musician.

• 28 mins

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 'Ma' Smith MBE, Mike Burrows, Loretta Lynn

Matthew Bannister on a Muslim scholar, a voluntary worker, a cycle designer and a singer.

• 28 mins

Dame Angela Lansbury, Lady Keswick, Sacheen Littlefeather, Franca Fendi

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a special adviser, a campaigner, a businesswoman

• 28 mins

Ian Hamilton KC, Audrey Evans, Parvatiben Solanki, Robbie Coltrane OBE

Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a paediatric oncologist, a publisher and an actor.

• 28 mins

Dame Carmen Callil, Ivy Jo Hunter, Kathleen Booth, Dietrich Mateschitz

Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a songwriter, a computer pioneer and a billionaire.

• 28 mins

Baroness Blood, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian Jack, Hilaree Nelson

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a musician, a journalist and a ski mountaineer.

• 28 mins