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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Broadcaster Iain Lee chooses performance artist, wrestler and star of TV’s Taxi, Andy Kaufman. With Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more
30 minutes
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Series investigating the world of food. Tim Hayward heads to Meatopia to explore the very latest in meat and fire. Show more
30 minutes
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Mathematician Marcus de Sautoy chooses the blind Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. With Matthew Parris. From 2014. Show more
28 minutes
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Can there really be only 60 hop farmers left in the UK? Miles Warde goes back to the Herefordshire yard where he worked to find out. Show more
30 minutes
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Matthew Syed chooses the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson. With Matthew Parris. From May 2011. Show more
30 minutes
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Barry Cryer nods to his Yorkshire roots by choosing JB Priestley, author of The Good Companions and An Inspector Calls. With Matthew Parris and Martin Wainwright. From January 2011. Show more
30 minutes
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Academic Louise Richardson chooses the hero of Catholic emancipation in 1829, Daniel O'Connell. With Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more
30 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. Writer Justin Marozzi chooses the ancient Greek historian, Herodotus. With Professor Edith Hall and Matthew Parris. From 2018. Show more
30 minutes
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Hedy Lamarr, actress, inventor, and the most beautiful woman in the world, chosen by Suzy Klein. Show more
30 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. Zoologist Mark Carwardine chooses his friend and travelling companion, author Douglas Adams. With Matthew Parris. From 2018. Show more
30 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. Journalist Andrea Catherwood chooses Irish rebel and the first woman MP, Constance Markievicz. With Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more
30 minutes
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Matthew Parris on Roald Amundsen, first man to the South Pole. The nominator is Erica Wagner. Show more
30 minutes
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Children’s TV’s Timmy Mallett nominates Richard the Lionheart. With historian Helen Castor and Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more
30 minutes
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George Fox, dissenter and founder of the Quakers, is nominated by Ann Limb. Presented by Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more
30 minutes
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Comedian and writer Tony Hawks chooses the creator of nonviolent communication, Marshall Rosenberg. With Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more
28 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. Public relations expert Mark Borkowski discusses the life of the manager of the Sex Pistols. From December 2010. Show more
30 minutes
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Journalist Georgina Godwin chooses UN secretary-general, Dag Hammarskjold who died in 1961. With Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more
28 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. Comedian Simon Evans chooses the author of On Liberty, Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill. With Matthew Parris. From 2018. Show more
30 minutes
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Catherine the Great is chosen by Barbara Stocking. Matthew Parris presents. Show more
25 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. Sir Ian McKellen chooses pioneering Everest conqueror, mountaineer Edmund Hillary. With Matthew Parris. From 2015. Show more
