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PD James, 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, Glen A Larson, Medlin Lewis-Spencer, Arthur Butterworth MBE
Matthew Bannister on a crime writer, a criminal, a director, a mayor and a composer.

Sir Thomas Macpherson, Mike Nichols, Alexander Grothendieck, Paul Vaughan, Leonore Davidoff and Jimmy Ruffin
Matthew Bannister on a war hero, a director, a mathematician, a broadcaster, a historian.

Vivienne Price; Dr Dick Laws; Warren Clarke; Geoffrey Clarke; Prince David Chavchavadze
Matthew Bannister on an orchestra founder, a zoologist, an actor, a sculptor and a spy.

Warren Anderson, Acker Bilk, Lord Barnett, Sonia Rolt
Matthew Bannister on a company chairman, a musician, a politician and a canal campaigner.

Jack Bruce, Gough Whitlam, Efua Dorkenoo, James Dunlop
Matthew Bannister on a rock musician, a campaigner, a politician and a firefighter.

Lynda Bellingham, Ben Bradlee, Geoffrey Perry, John Holt
Andrea Catherwood remembers an actress, a war veteran, a reggae artist and newspaperman.

Sir Jocelyn Stevens, Jerrie Mock, John Moat, Shirley Baker, David Rayvern Allen
Matthew Bannister on a newspaper executive, a pilot, an author, a photographer, a producer

Andrew Kerr, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Dorothy Tyler MBE, Prof Karl Miller, Cosimo Matassa
Matthew Bannister on a festival founder, a dictator, an athlete and a literary editor.

Christopher Hogwood, Major General Yitzhak Hofi, Sheila Tracy, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Lynsey de Paul
Matthew Bannister on a conductor, an Israeli general, a broadcaster and a mathematician.

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Oleg Ivanovsky, Jim Petrie, Dame Julia Polak and Bob Crewe
Julian Worricker on two scientists, an illustrator, a songwriter and a leading aristocrat.