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    Scot Breithaupt, E. L. Doctorow, Claudia Alexander, Ron Pollard, Magali Noel

    Matthew Bannister on a space scientist, a bookie, an author, a BMX pioneer, an actress.

  2. Rev Joyce Bennett, Prince Saud al-Faisal, Burt Shavitz, Michael Oliver, Ian Allan

    Matthew Bannister on a priest, a foreign minister, a beekeeper and a medical professor.

  3. Omar Sharif, Stanley 'Steve' Moore, Jules Wright, Yevgeny Primakov, Ernest Tomlinson

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a detective, a director, a politician and a composer.

  4. Sir Nicholas Winton, Val Doonican, Nek Chand, James Salter, Lady Rozelle Raynes

    Matthew Bannister on a humanitarian, a singer, an artist, a writer and an aristocrat.

  5. Sir Chris Woodhead, Patrick Macnee, Dame Anne Warburton, Vic Mayhew, James Horner

    Matthew Bannister on a school inspector, an actor, a diplomat, a subeditor and a composer.

  6. Morris Beckman, Ornette Coleman, Tanith Lee, S眉leyman Demirel and Doris Hart

    Matthew Bannister on an activist, a musician, a writer, a president and a tennis player.

  7. Christopher Lee, Marguerite Patten, James Last, Major Roy Homard, Ron Moody

    Andrea Catherwood on two actors, a polar explorer, a cookery writer and a musician.

  8. Tariq Aziz, Charles Kennedy, Julie Harris, Alan Bond, Peter Cropper

    The lives of two politicians, a costume designer, an entrepreneur and a violinist.

  9. Raymond Gosling, Eileen Gray, Sir Duncan Watson, Denys Darlow, Grace Lee Whitney

    Matthew Bannister on a scientist, a cyclist, a blind campaigner, a conductor, an actress.

  10. Oscar Holderer, David Sharp, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, Alexandre Lamfalussy and Guy Carawan

    Matthew Bannister on a rocket scientist, a rambler, an aristocrat, an economist, a singer.

  11. BB King, Kenan Evren, Sir Maurice Flanagan, Maya Plisetskaya, Wally Kahn

    Matthew Bannister on a bluesman, a general, an airline boss, a dancer and a glider pilot.

  12. Jean Nidetch, Baroness Ruth Rendell, Geoff Duke OBE, Katharine Worth, Errol Brown

    Matthew Bannister on a slimming guru, an author, a motorcyclist and a drama teacher.

  13. Sir Philip Carter, Andrew Lesnie, Margaret Harrison, Tom McCabe MSP, Claire Gordon

    Matthew Bannister on a football chairman, a cinematographer, a campaigner and an actress.

  14. Margaret Rule, Lord Mason, Dell Williams, Buddy Elias, Brian Couzens

    Matthew Bannister on an archaeologist, an MP, a sex shop founder and a record producer.

  15. Guenter Grass, Sheila Kitzinger, Andrew Porter, Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott, Percy Sledge

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a childbirth campaigner, a critic, a gambler and a singer.

  16. Frei Otto, Richie Benaud, Albert Maysles, Julio Cesar Strassera, Mary Clarke

    Matthew Bannister on an architect, a cricket commentator, a director, a lawyer, a critic.

  17. Cynthia Lennon, Anthony Scrivener, Martyn Goff, John Renbourn

    Julian Worricker on a Beatles wife, a barrister, a musician and the man behind the Booker.

  18. Lee Kuan Yew, Derek Chinnery, Eugenie Clark, Mal Peet, Jackie Trent

    Matthew Bannister on a prime minister, a 91福利社 executive, an ichthyologist and an author.

  19. Shaw Taylor, Arthur Wyatt, Naty Revuelta Clews, Malcolm Fraser, Andy Fraser

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a diplomat, a revolutionary, a politician, a musician.

  20. Sir Terry Pratchett, Florence Arthaud, Patrick Whitefield, Lord Molyneaux, Sam Simon

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a sailor, an ecologist, a politician and a comedy creator.

  21. Yasar Kemal, Maureen Guy, Professor Oliver Rackham, Sir Noel Davies, Leonard Nimoy

    A Turkish author, an opera singer, an environmentalist, a nuclear engineer and an actor.

  22. Dan Topolski, Lady Villiers, John Davies, Tim Lusty, Clark Terry

    A rower, a resistance fighter, a historian, a historian and a jazz musician.

  23. Michele Ferrero, Lady Platt of Writtle, John McCabe, Louis Jourdan, Anne Naysmith and Lesley Gore.

    Julian Worricker on a confectioner, an engineer, a composer, an actor, a pianist

  24. John Hopkins, Ena Baxter, Lord Gavron, Andre Brink, Charles Townes, Steve Strange

    Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a cook, a businessman, a writer and a physicist.

  25. Colleen McCullough, Richard von Weizsaecker, Carl Djerassi, Geraldine McEwan and Lotte Hass

    Matthew Bannister talks about an author, a president, a chemist, an actress and a diver.

  26. Sir Jack Hayward, Elena Obraztsova, Robert Stone, Jean Stogdon OBE and Demis Roussos

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a singer, a novelist, a social worker and a pop star.

  27. Lord Brittan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Professor John Bayley, Anne Kirkbride

    Obituary series: Matthew Bannister on a politician, a king, an academic and an actress.

  28. Ray McFall, Richard Meade, Joan Benesh, Frank Atkinson and Brian Clemens

    Obituaries of a club owner, a horseman, a choreologist, a curator and a screenwriter.

  29. Jean Cabut and Georges Wolinski, Luise Rainer, Edward Brooke and Chip Young

    Matthew Bannister on two cartoonists, an actress, a senator and a session guitarist.

  30. Debbie Purdy, David Ryall, Willy Burgdorfer, Dame Mary Glen Haig, Graeme Goodall

    Julian Worricker on a campaigner, an actor, an entomologist, a fencer and a music pioneer.

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