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Sue Townsend, Lord Kimball, Peaches Geldof, Prof Lorna Casselton, Mickey Rooney
Matthew Bannister on an author, an MP, a TV presenter, a fungal biologist and a film star.

Margo MacDonald, Frankie Knuckles, Lorna Arnold, Kate O'Mara, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Matthew Bannister remembers a politician, a DJ, a historian, an actress and a president.

Mickey Duff, John Tyson, Jill Sinclair, Adolfo Suarez, Oswald Morris
Matthew Bannister on a boxing promoter, an explorer, a music exec and a cinematographer.

Clarissa Dickson Wright, Lord Ballyedmond, L'Wren Scott, Mohammed Fahim, Peter Callander
Julian Worricker remembers a chef, an entrepreneur, a lyricist, a statesman and a designer

Tony Benn, James Ellis, Peter Rona, Marion Thorpe, Bob Crow
Julian Worricker on a politician, an actor, an oceanographer, a pianist and a union leader

Paco de Lucia, Frank Rushbrook, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Logan Scott-Bowden, Alain Resnais
Aasmah Mir remembers a guitarist, a firefighter, an artist, a soldier and a director.

Alison Jolly, Alice Herz-Sommer, Valery Kubasov, Mavis Gallant, Harold Ramis
Aasmah Mir remembers a primatologist, a pianist, a cosmonaut, a writer and a director.

Sir Tom Finney CBE, Sid Caesar, Ian McNaught-Davis, Els Borst, Louise Brough
Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a comedian, a climber, a politician and a tennis player

Prof Stuart Hall, Jean Babilée, Tony Crook, Shirley Temple Black
Matthew Bannister remembers a sociologist, a dancer, a car maker and a child star.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jose Sulaiman, Anna Gordy Gaye, Ron Hall, Peter Austin
Matthew Bannister recalls an actor, a journalist, a Motown exec and a boxing administrator