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The award-winning novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. Hilary Mantel reflects on the writer who she says helped us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts.

Also the comedian and satirist John Fortune who found fame through his TV collaborations with John Bird and Rory Bremner.

Vera Houghton, a pioneer in the fields of abortion law reform and free birth control.

Sir Christopher Curwen, who was head of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, when Oleg Gordievsky - Britain's star source inside the KGB - was successfully exfiltrated from Moscow.

And the American radio evangelist, Harold Camping, who was the first major end-of-the-world forecaster of the internet age.

Producer: Neil George. Show less