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Erasmus Darwin
Paul Nurse discusses scientist, inventor and poet Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles.
Bernard Manning nominates Mother Teresa
Comedian Bernard Manning assesses the achievements of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Katherine Graham
Broadcaster Kirsty Young chooses newspaper publisher Katherine Graham.
Tom Spring
Sports journalist Frank Keating talks about 19th-century bare-knuckle boxer Tom Spring.
Lord Byron
Sue Limb nominates 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' poet, Lord Byron.
Louis Armstrong
Band leader Chris Barber chooses legendary jazz trumpeter, Louis Armstrong.
Alexander the Great
Writer Frederic Raphael chooses part man, part myth Alexander the Great.
Viscount Slim
Lord Carrington and Lord John Slim discuss military leader, Field-Marshal Viscount Slim.
Franz Schubert
Cellist Steven Isserlis and musicologist Brian Newbould on the composer Franz Schubert.
George Eliot
Ex-parliamentary standards commissioner Elizabeth Filkin chooses novelist George Eliot.
