Jazz musician and rapper Soweto Kinch tells the forgotten story of the black 18th-Century composer Ignatius Sancho. Show more

Burlesque performer Kirsty Allan on Eliza Vestris, the 19th-century theatrical performer and Britain's first burlesque star. Show more

Con Coughlin of The Daily Telegraph tells the story of Victorian journalist George Augustus Sala, a prolific leader writer and adventurous and well-travelled foreign correspondent. Show more

Katrina Porteous tells the story of her fellow poet Kathleen Raine, with whom she shares Scottish roots, a Cambridge education and a connection with Northumberland. Show more

Surgeon Iain Hutchison on plastic surgery pioneer Varaztad Kazanjian, an American doctor posted with the British army in WWI who became a pioneer in plastic surgery. Show more