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Vladimir Bukovsky, Alison Prince, Keith Schellenberg, Robert Ponsonby
Matthew Bannister on a dissident, a writer, a laird, a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Controller

Nik Powell OBE, James Le Mesurier OBE, Frank Dobson, Hazel Vincent Wallace OBE
Matthew Bannister on a rescue worker, a businessman, an M.P., an impresario

Gay Byrne, Sadako Ogata, Robert Evans
Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a UN High Commissioner, a film producer

Charles Jencks, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Irene Shubik, Raymond Leppard
Matthew Bannister on an architecural historian, an ISIS leader, a TV producer, a conductor

Alicia Alonso, Deborah Orr, Joyce Cansfield, Clora Bryant
Matthew Bannister on a ballerina, a journalist, a crossword setter, a trumpeter

Alexei Leonov, Sally Soames, Kary Mullis, Reg Watson
Matthew Bannister on a cosmonaut, a photographer, a biochemist and a producer

Ginger Baker, Su Beng, John Haylett, Diahann Carroll
Matthew Bannister on an activist, a drummer, an editor and an actress.

Jessye Norman, Peter Sissons, Al Alvarez, Marita Lorenz
Julian Worricker on a singer, a journalist, an author, a spy.

Jacques Chirac, Sir Michael Edwardes, Cokie Roberts, Pat Cavendish O’Neill
Julian Worricker on a politician, a business leader, a TV journalist, a racehorse trainer.

Chester Williams, Sheikh Yusuf Motala, Jan Ruff O’Herne, Ric Ocasek
Matthew Bannister on an Islamic scholar, a rugby player, a campaigner and a rock star.