BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives

Elizabeth I

Broadcaster and campaigner Esther Rantzen chooses Queen Elizabeth I.

Athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson chooses her Welsh compatriot, politician David Lloyd George.

Military historian Richard Holmes nominates the mysterious Man in the Iron Mask.

Richard Ingrams nominates author and journalist GK Chesterton for regularly being right.

Geneticist Steve Jones chooses 19th-century fiddle-playing shepherd and writer James Hogg.

Poet Benjamin Zephaniah explores the life of reggae legend Bob Marley.

Conductor Leonard Slatkin proposes composer Sergei Rachmaninov for great life status.

Author Beryl Bainbridge selects explorer Robert Falcon Scott as a hidden romantic.

Media executive and broadcaster Greg Dyke chooses explorer Captain James Cook.

Political cartoonist Steve Bell chooses the 18th-century caricaturist James Gillray.