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| 282 cast members |
| Name | Episodes | Known for |
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Melvyn Bragg
Self - Presenter
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48
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Christopher Booker
Self - The Booker Quiz Presenter
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31
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Ronald Harwood
Self - Presenter / Self - Quiz of the Week: William Shakespeare
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30
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Antonia Fraser
Self - Quiz of the Week: Patricia Highsmith
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10
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Jacky Gillott
Self
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8
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Margaret Drabble
Self - Quiz of the Week: The Brontes
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7
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Frank Muir
Self
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6
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Angela Huth
Self
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6
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Alan Coren
Self - Quiz of the Week: Scott Fitzgerald
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5
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Michael Frayn
Self
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5
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A.J. Ayer
Self
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5
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Jilly Cooper
Self
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4
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Martin Amis
Self
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4
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Arianna Huffington
Self (as Arianna Stassinopoulos)
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4
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Paul Theroux
Self
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3
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Kingsley Amis
Self
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3
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Leslie Thomas
Self - Quiz of the Week: Captain Marryat
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3
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Margaret Forster
Self
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3
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Eleanor Bron
Self
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2
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David Mercer
Self - Quiz of the Week: Patrick White
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2
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Irene Handl
Self
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2
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Edna O'Brien
Self
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2
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Alan Brien
Self
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2
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Suzanne Lowry
Self
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2
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Joan Bakewell
Self
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2
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2
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Kenny Everett
Self
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2
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Auberon Waugh
Self
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2
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Clive James
Self
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2
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Lourens van der Post
Self (as Laurens van der Post)
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2
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Angela Carter
Self
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2
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Marsha Hunt
Self
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2
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Jack Higgins
Self - Quiz of the Week: Raymond Chandler
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2
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Michael Holroyd
Self
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2
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Dorothy Dunnett
Self - Quiz of the Week: Dorothy L. Sayers
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2
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Beryl Bainbridge
Self
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2
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Laurie Lee
Self - Quiz of the Week: C. Day Lewis
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2
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Arthur Marshall
Self - Quiz of the Week: P.G. Wodehouse
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2
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Chris Bonington
Self
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2
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Marghanita Laski
Self
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2
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A.S. Byatt
Self
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2
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Michael Moorcock
Self - Quiz of the Week: H.G. Wells
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2
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George Melly
Self - Quiz of the Week: W.H. Auden
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2
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Marina Warner
Self
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2
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David M. Wilson
Self (as Dr. David Wilson)
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2
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Joanna Lumley
Self
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2
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Anthony Burgess
Self
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1
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Patrick Macnee
Self
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1
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Shirley Conran
Self
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1
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R.D. Laing
Self (as Dr. R.D. Laing)
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1
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Catherine Cookson
Self
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1
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Kenneth Williams
Self
|
1
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Ernie Wise
Self
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1
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Simon Raven
Self
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1
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Dennis Wheatley
Self
|
1
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Neville Smith
Self
|
1
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Joan Aiken
Self
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1
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Peregrine Worsthorne
Self
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1
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Edmund Cooper
Self
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1
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A.J.P. Taylor
Self
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1
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Julian Symons
Self
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1
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Paul Johnson
Self
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1
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J.P. Donleavy
Self
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1
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Edward Blishen
Self
|
1
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Denise Robins
Self
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1
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Charles Osborne
Self
|
1
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Helen Mirren
Self
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1
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Hermione Gingold
Self
|
1
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Barbara Cartland
Self
|
1
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Alan Sillitoe
Self
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1
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Jonathan Miller
Self
|
1
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David Cook
Self
|
1
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John Pilger
Self
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1
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Peter Nichols
Self
|
1
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Claud Cockburn
Self
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1
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Anna Raeburn
Self
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1
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Angus Wilson
Self
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1
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Isobel Barnett
Self (as Lady Isobel Barnett)
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1
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Jeremy Sandford
Self
|
1
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Pierre Rey
Self
|
1
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Rachel Billington
Self
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1
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Lawrence Daly
Self
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1
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Milton Shulman
Self
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1
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Jonathan Raban
Self
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1
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Hilary Spurling
Self
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1
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Bernice Rubens
Self
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1
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Erika Cheetham
Self
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1
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Willie Hamilton
Self
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1
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Billy Connolly
Self
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1
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Siân Phillips
Self
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1
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Ken Russell
Self
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1
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Tom Baker
Self
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1
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Diana Quick
Self
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1
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Twiggy
Self
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1
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John le Carré
Self
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1
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Gore Vidal
Self
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1
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Jimmy Savile
Self (as Jimmy Savile OBE)
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1
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Quentin Crisp
Self
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1
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Jackie Collins
Self
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1
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Brian Aldiss
Self
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1
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Barbara Dickson
Self
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1
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James Herriot
Self
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1
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Richard Condon
Self
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1
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Colin Wilson
Self
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1
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Malcolm Bradbury
Self (as Professor Malcolm Bradbury)
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1
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Claire Tomalin
Self
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1
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Roberta Leigh
Self
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1
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Olivia Manning
Self
|
1
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Evelyn Anthony
Self
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1
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Michael Innes
Self
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1
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Russell Davies
Self
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1
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Michael Foot
Self (as Michael Foot MP)
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1
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Caroline Coon
Self
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1
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V.S. Pritchett
Self
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1
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Hugh Greene
Self (as Sir Hugh Greene)
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1
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John Cole
Self
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1
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Frances Donaldson
Self
|
1
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Alexander Gowrie
Self (as Lord Gowrie)
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1
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Robert Kee
Self
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1
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Hugh Scanlon
Self
|
1
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Danny Abse
Self (as Dannie Abse)
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1
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Susan Howatch
Self
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1
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Lettice Cooper
Self
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1
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Peter Grosvenor
Self
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1
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John Cleese
Self
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1
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David Niven
Self
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1
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Gayle Hunnicutt
Self
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1
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Tina Brown
Self
|
1
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Annabel Leventon
Self
|
1
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Dulcie Gray
Self
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1
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Christopher Priest
Self
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1
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Thor Heyerdahl
Self
|
1
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Harold Robbins
Self
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1
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Brian Rix
Self
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1
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Barbara Kelly
Self
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1
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Nell Dunn
Self
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1
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Fred Hoyle
Self (as Sir Fred Hoyle)
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1
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Trevor Griffiths
Self
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1
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Hugh Casson
Self (as Sir Hugh Casson)
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1
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Mary Stewart
Self
|
1
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Rene Cutforth
Self
|
1
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Tom Paulin
Self
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1
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John Prebble
Self
|
1
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Arthur Janov
Self
|
1
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Duchess Margaret of Argyle
Self (as Margaret Duchess of Argyll)
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1
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Albert Pierrepoint
Self
|
1
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Osbert Lancaster
Self (as Sir Osbert Lancaster)
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1
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Mike Brearley
Self
|
1
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Elaine Feinstein
Self
|
1
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Dora Russell
Self
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1
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Paul Barker
Self
|
1
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Richard Boston
Self
|
1
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Lyall Watson
Self (as Dr. Lyall Watson)
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1
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Anthony Price
Self
|
1
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Bill Sowerbutts
Self
|
1
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Rodney Marsh
Self
|
1
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Katharine Whitehorn
Self
|
1
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Gillian Reynolds
Self
|
1
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C.P. Snow
Self
|
1
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Bernadette Devlin
Self (as Bernadette Devlin McAliskey)
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1
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Robert Mark
Self (as Sir Robert Mark)
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1
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Andrew Cavendish
Self (as Duke of Devonshire)
|
1
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Jacquetta Hawkes
Self
|
1
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David Caute
Self
|
1
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John Taylor
Self
|
1
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Gaia Servadio
Self
|
1
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Dan Jacobson
Self
|
1
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John Gross
Self
|
1
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Colin Mitchell
Self
|
1
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Jeffrey Iverson
Self
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1
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Merlin Minshall
Self
|
1
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Albert Finney
Self
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1
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Michele Dotrice
Self
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1
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Felicity Kendal
Self
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1
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Dirk Bogarde
Self
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1
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Roald Dahl
Self
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1
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Christopher Timothy
Self
|
1
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Mai Zetterling
Self
|
1
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Marianne Faithfull
Self
|
1
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Nanette Newman
Self
|
1
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Patricia Highsmith
Self
|
1
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John Mortimer
Self
|
1
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Roy Hattersley
Self (as Rt. Hon. Roy Hattersley MP)
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1
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Clive Cussler
Self
|
1
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Frederic Raphael
Self
|
1
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Simon Jenkins
Self
|
1
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John Betjeman
Self (as Sir John Betjeman)
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1
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John Donat
Self
|
1
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Michael Elliott
Self
|
1
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Peter Townsend
Self (as Group Capt. Peter Townsend)
|
1
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Patti Boulaye
Self
|
1
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Mary McCarthy
Self
|
1
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Martha Gellhorn
Self
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1
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Geoffrey Household
Self
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1
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Colleen McCullough
Self
|
1
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Nicolas Freeling
Self
|
1
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Erin Pizzey
Self
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1
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Yehudi Menuhin
Self
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1
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Russell Harty
Self
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1
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Simon Gray
Self
|
1
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Morris West
Self
|
1
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Tony Soper
Self
|
1
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Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Self
|
1
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John Braine
Self
|
1
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Penelope Lively
Self
|
1
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Clare Francis
Self
|
1
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Monica Dickens
Self
|
1
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Patrick Seale
Self
|
1
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Bernard Ashley
Self
|
1
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Vivian Fuchs
Self (as Sir Vivian Fuchs)
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1
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Robert Lacey
Self
|
1
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Lord Longford
Self
|
1
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Stephen Spender
Self
|
1
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Sue MacGregor
Self
|
1
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Victoria Glendinning
Self
|
1
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John Hackett
Self (as General Sir John Hackett)
|
1
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Christopher Ricks
Self
|
1
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William Davis
Self
|
1
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David Hunt
Self (as Sir David Hunt)
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1
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Edna Healey
Self
|
1
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Alun Chalfont
Self (as Lord Chalfont)
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1
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Peter Levi
Self
|
1
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Lady Longford
Self (as Elizabeth Longford)
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1
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Brigid Brophy
Self
|
1
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D.M. Thomas
Self
|
1
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Elisabeth Frink
Self
|
1
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Anthony Sampson
Self
|
1
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Shirley Hughes
Self
|
1
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Ion Trewin
Self
|
1
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Celia Haddon
Self
|
1
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Winifred Foley
Self
|
1
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John Jones
Self
|
1
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Louis Heren
Self
|
1
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Carolyn Slaughter
Self
|
1
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Peter Ustinov
Self
|
1
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P.D. James
Self
|
1
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Paul Darrow
Self
|
1
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Anthony Shaffer
Self
|
1
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Raymond Briggs
Self
|
1
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Evan Hunter
Self
|
1
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Terry Wogan
Self
|
1
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Fay Weldon
Self
|
1
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George MacDonald Fraser
Self - Quiz of the Week: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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1
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Jeffrey Archer
Self
|
1
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Alistair Cooke
Self
|
1
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Nigel Williams
Self
|
1
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Richard Adams
Self - Quiz of the Week: Jane Austen
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1
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Penelope Mortimer
Self
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1
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Patrick Kavanagh
Self (as P.J. Kavanagh)
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1
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Dick Francis
Self - Quiz of the Week: Graham Greene
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1
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William Trevor
Self
|
1
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Claire Rayner
Self
|
1
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Rebecca West
Self (as Dame Rebecca West)
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1
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Daniel Topolski
Self
|
1
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Huw Wheldon
Self (as Sir Huw Wheldon)
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1
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Piers Paul Read
Self
|
1
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Lorin Maazel
Self
|
1
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Donald Woods
Self
|
1
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Beverley Nichols
Self
|
1
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Jane Gardam
Self
|
1
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Tim Severin
Self
|
1
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Virginia Wade
Self
|
1
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J.T. Edson
Self - Quiz of the Week: Westerns
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1
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Sebastian Faulks
Self
|
1
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V.S. Naipaul
Self
|
1
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Jan Morris
Self
|
1
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Harold Evans
Self
|
1
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John Drummond
Self
|
1
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Monica Mason
Self
|
1
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Peter Porter
Self
|
1
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William McIlvanney
Self
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1
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Nikolai Tolstoy
Self (as Count Nikolai Tolstoy)
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1
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Mark Boxer
Self
|
1
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Theodora Fitzgibbon
Self
|
1
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Fitzroy McLean
Self (as Sir Fitzroy Maclean)
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1
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Shusha Guppy
Self (as Shusha)
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1
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Neil Cossons
Self
|
1
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David Daiches
Self - Quiz of the Week: Robert Louis Stevenson
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1
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Stuart Hampshire
Self
|
1
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John Colville
Self (as Sir John Colville)
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1
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Sally Emerson
Self
|
1
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Alan Gemmell
Self (as Prof. Alan Gemmell)
|
1
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