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Errollyn Wallen, composer
11. aug. 2024 52m

Errollyn Wallen is one of the world’s most performed living composers. Her work, which includes 22 operas, orchestral, chamber and vocal works, was p...

Rob Delaney, actor and comedian
4. aug. 2024 50m

Rob Delaney is a comedian, writer and actor who is best known for the television series Catastrophe, which he co-wrote and co-starred in alongside Sha...

Professor Patricia Wiltshire, forensic scientist
28. jul. 2024 51m

Professor Patricia Wiltshire is a forensic ecologist who specialises in palynology – the study of pollen. Her expertise has led her to work with ever...

Anthony Joshua, boxer
20. jul. 2024 51m

Anthony Joshua MBE is a British heavyweight boxer, Olympic gold medallist and two-time former unified world heavyweight champion. Anthony was born in ...

Clive Myrie, journalist
14. jul. 2024 52m

Clive Myrie is an award-winning journalist and news presenter who is one of the BBC’s most experienced foreign correspondents. In 2021 he took over fr...

Shirine Khoury-Haq, businesswoman
7. jul. 2024 49m

Shirine Khoury-Haq is the chief executive officer of the Co-op Group – the first female chief executive in its 180-year history and the first from an ...

Rebel Wilson, actor
30. jun. 2024 48m

The Australian actor Rebel Wilson became an international star with a breakthrough part in the 2011 Hollywood comedy Bridesmaids, opposite Kristen Wii...

John Boyne, writer
22. jun. 2024 51m

The Irish writer John Boyne is best known for his 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which became a literary phenomenon, selling more than 11 ...

Dame Sarah Storey, athlete
15. jun. 2024 50m

Dame Sarah Storey is Great Britain’s most successful Paralympian, winning 17 gold, eight silver and three bronze medals. She was just 14 when she took...

Greg Davies, comedian
9. jun. 2024 49m

Greg Davies is a familiar face on television as the host of Taskmaster, the BAFTA-winning game show, and he has achieved sell out national arena tours...

Professor Tim Spector, scientist
27. apr. 2024 49m

Tim Spector is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Head of the Department of Twin Research at King’s College London. He was one of the co-founders...

Professor Alice Roberts, scientist and broadcaster
21. apr. 2024 36m

Professor Alice Roberts is one of the most popular science communicators in Britain today. As the presenter of the BBC archaeology programme Digging f...

Jenny Sealey, theatre director
13. apr. 2024 34m

Jenny Sealey has been the artistic director of Graeae Theatre Company since 1997: Graeae is a deaf and disabled-led company and a leader and innovator...

James Graham, playwright
7. apr. 2024 50m

James Graham is an award-winning dramatist whose plays include This House, Ink and Dear England starring Joseph Fiennes as the England football manage...

Rita Rae, Lady Rae, lawyer and judge
31. mar. 2024 38m

The Honourable Lady Rita Rae is a lawyer and judge, and the current Rector of the University of Glasgow. Early in her career she was a rare woman in t...

Sandy Powell, costume designer
24. mar. 2024 36m

Sandy Powell won her first Academy Award for dressing Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, and has since won two more Oscars - a...

Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist
17. mar. 2024 38m

Clive Oppenheimer is a volcanologist, filmmaker and Professor of Volcanology at the University of Cambridge. His research has taken him on expeditions...

Cillian Murphy, actor
10. mar. 2024 35m

Cillian Murphy has received global acclaim for his performance in the title role of Christopher Nolan’s epic film Oppenheimer. He has been nominated f...

Val Wilmer, writer and photographer
3. mar. 2024 38m

Val Wilmer has photographed and interviewed many of the most significant musicians of the post-war years, including Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Mile...

Jamie Dornan, actor
25. feb. 2024 36m

Jamie Dornan is an actor who first came to the attention of television audiences in 2013 when he played serial killer Paul Spector in the BBC series t...

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cellist
18. feb. 2024 37m

Sheku Kanneh-Mason is a cellist who came to international attention when he performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018. Still ...

Guli Francis-Dehqani, Church of England Bishop
11. feb. 2024 36m

The Rt Revd Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani is the Bishop of Chelmsford. She also sits in Parliament as a Lord Spiritual and last year she played a prominent...

Graham Nash, musician
4. feb. 2024 36m

Graham William Nash is a musician, singer, songwriter and photographer. He had his first musical success as a member of the UK band The Hollies bef...

Delia Smith, CH, CBE, cookery writer and broadcaster
21. jan. 2024 37m

Delia Smith CH CBE is one of Britain’s most popular and successful cookery writers and broadcasters. Her first book, How to Cheat at Cooking, was p...

Greta Gerwig, writer and director
14. jan. 2024 35m

Greta Gerwig is the director of the feature film Barbie - the first woman in cinematic history to have the sole director’s credit for a billion dollar...

Shirley Ballas, dance judge
7. jan. 2024 36m

Shirley Ballas is the head judge on Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC’s Saturday night entertainment show, which regularly attracts an audience of many m...

Marina Abramović, performance artist
31. dec. 2023 39m

Marina Abramović is an artist renowned for performances and feats of endurance, in which her body is pushed to its limits. She has moved, scandalised...

Dr Nicola Fox, head of science at Nasa
24. dec. 2023 36m

Dr Nicky Fox is only the second woman to hold the post of Head of Science at NASA since the agency was founded in 1958. She has responsibility for aro...

Pia Sinha, Director Prison Reform Trust
17. dec. 2023 35m

Pia Sinha is the Director of the Prison Reform Trust and a former prison governor. She was awarded the St Martin’s Award for Prison Governance for he...

Peter White, broadcaster
10. dec. 2023 35m

Peter White is an award-winning broadcaster. In 2024 he will celebrate 50 years presenting Radio 4’s In Touch, the programme for blind and visually i...