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Back to SearchMohammad Mossadegh, PM of Iran ousted in a coup
Walter Murch picks Mohammad Mossadegh, prime minister following the nationalisation of the Anglo-Iranian oil company in 1951. Mossadegh was ousted in…
2 years, 5 months ago
Ludwig Koch
The award-winning Sound Recordist and Musician, Chris Watson nominates his hero, Ludwig Koch.
In 1889, German-born Koch was the first person ever to …
2 years, 8 months ago
Lady Eve Balfour
An aristocrat in an eye patch, a jazz saxophonist, a crime novelist and a pioneering organic farmer.
Lady Eve Balfour was born in 1898 into the politi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ken Loach on Gerrard Winstanley
Veteran British film director Ken Loach nominates the 17th century radical pamphleteer and and leader of the Diggers, Gerrard Winstanley.
Born in Wiga…
2 years, 8 months ago
Chi-chi Nwanoku on Jessye Norman
On the 11th June 1988, Jessye Norman performed a spine-tingling rendition of 'Amazing Grace' to a packed Wembley Stadium in London.
This was the clima…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ninette de Valois
The Godmother of English - and Irish - ballet, Dame Ninette De Valois or ‘Madam’ as she was known to those around her. She is widely regarded as one …
2 years, 8 months ago
Sophie Scott on Hattie Jacques
She was born Josephine Edwina Jacques in 1922.
Hattie Jacques’ career began in music hall before graduating onto 1950s BBC radio comedies such as ‘Ed…
2 years, 9 months ago
Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore and London Zoo
It's a famous name - there's Raffles Hotel and Raffles Hospital, plus the rafflesia, the largest flowering plant in the world, an ant, a butterflyfis…
2 years, 9 months ago
Susie Dent on Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German writer whose books explored themes around family, beauty and the creeping threat of fascism in Europe.
Mann's best-known 'D…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tony Benn
"It's the complicated ones I enjoy the most." Matthew Parris
Ellie Gibson picks Labour politician Tony Benn, who was a rock star politician in older a…
3 years ago