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Mary Maher, Robbie Shakespeare (pictured), Anwar Ditta, Anne Rice
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a bass player, a campaigner and an author.

Sir Antony Sher (pictured), Roger Phillips, Judy Totton
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a mushroom expert and a publicist.

Stephen Sondheim (pictured), Sir Frank Williams, Jo-Carroll Dennison
Matthew Bannister on a composer, a motor racing team owner and a beauty queen.

Ian Wallace, Rossana Banti, Ivy Nicholson (pictured), Cedric Robinson MBE
Matthew Bannister on an ornithologist, a partisan, a model, a guide

Aaron Beck, Joan Carlyle (pictured), Etel Adnan, Anne Bradford
Kirsty Lang on a psychiatrist, a soprano, a writer and a crossword solver.

Sir Archie Lamb (pictured), John Boyden, Ida Nudel, Abolhassan Banisadr
Matthew Bannister on a diplomat, a record producer, a 'refusenik' and a president.

Sir Michael Rutter (pictured), Christopher Wenner, Sister Megan Rice, Jeanette Altwegg
Matthew Bannister on a psychiatrist, a film maker, a campaigner, a figure skater

Bernard Haitink (pictured), Victor Gregg, Ruthie Tompson, Paddy Moloney
Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a soldier, an animator, and a piper.

Colin Powell (pictured), Brendan Kennelly, Myriam Sarachik, John Clunies-Ross
Kirsty Lang on a General, a poet, a scientist and the ruler of the Cocos Islands

Abdul Qadeer Khan (pictured), R. Allen Gardner, Joyce Jackson, Beresford King-Smith
Matthew Bannister on a metallurgist, an ethologist, a centenarian, an orchestra manager.