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Back to SearchHelen Sharman on Elsie Widdowson
How many people realise the impact Elsie Widdowson had on the way we view nutrition?
She was a food scientist who devoted her life to improving the d…
8 years, 8 months ago
Tracy Chevalier on Mary Anning
Novelist Tracy Chevalier discusses the life of Mary Anning with Matthew Parris.
Mary was a working class woman from Lyme Regis who discovered full din…
8 years, 9 months ago
Don McCullin on Norman Lewis
In 1968 Norman Lewis wrote an article called Genocide in Brazil. The photographs that accompanied it were by Don McCullin.
Lewis later said that this…
8 years, 9 months ago
Maxine Peake on Ellen Wilkinson
Actress Maxine Peake nominates her working class hero, Ellen Wilkinson, as a great life.
Ellen is regarded as one of the most important figures in th…
8 years, 9 months ago
Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse
Stephen Fry nominates his hero PG Wodehouse, a writer who he says simply cheers him up like no one else.
Fry wrote to his hero when he was a schoolbo…
8 years, 9 months ago
Peter Williams of Jack Wills chooses Steve Jobs
Peter Williams - founder of British retail chain, Jack Wills - nominates Steve Jobs as his great life.
For Williams, despite the fact that Steve Jobs…
9 years ago
Iain Lee on Andy Kaufman
There were so many hoaxes in Andy Kaufman's brief career that for years his fans believed that he wasn't really dead.
Kaufman's best known as Latka G…
9 years ago
Sue Cameron on Emma of Normandy
Twice Queen of England and mother of two kings, but have you heard of Emma of Normandy?
Doyenne of Whitehall and Westminster journalists, Sue Cameron…
9 years ago
Steven Knight on Sitting Bull
For Steven Knight, the screen writer and director of ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Taboo’, it was easy to nominate his great life. For him there was just one…
9 years ago
Peaches Golding on Shirley Chisholm
American-born Peaches Golding OBE - Bristol's former Lord Lieutenant and first black female High Sheriff - nominates African American politician Sh…
9 years, 1 month ago