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Scot Breithaupt, E. L. Doctorow, Claudia Alexander, Ron Pollard, Magali Noel

Matthew Bannister on a space scientist, a bookie, an author, a BMX pioneer, an actress.

• 28 mins

Nova Pilbeam, Reverend Owen Chadwick, Jon Vickers, Yoichiro Nambu, Nick Ryman

Matthew Bannister on a historian, a tenor, a physicist, an actress, a vigneron

• 28 mins

Cilla Black, Michael Kidson, APJ Abdul Kalam, Evelyn Gillan, George Cole

Matthew Bannister discusses a singer, a teacher, a president, a campaigner and an actor.

• 28 mins

David Nobbs, Frances Kelsey, Kyril Zinovieff, Elio Fiorucci, Harry Pitch

Reeta Chakrabarti on a writer, a scientist, a spy, a fashion designer and a musician.

• 28 mins

Khaled al-Asaad, Jazz Summers, Jack Gold, Manual Contreras, Dawn Wofford

Lucy Ash on an archaeologist, a music manager, a director, a show jumper and a general.

• 28 mins

Bernie Passingham, Christopher Marshall, Wayne Carson, Michael Turk, Marie Dobbs, Yvonne Craig

Matthew Bannister on a union official, a researcher, a songwriter, a waterman, an author.

• 28 mins

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Joy Beverley, Oliver Sacks, Annette Worsley-Taylor

Matthew Bannister talks about a peer, a singer, a neurologist and a fashion promoter.

• 28 mins

Sir Adrian Cadbury, Rico Rodriguez, Ieng Thirith, Margaret Harrison, Judy Carne

Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a trombonist, a Khmer Rouge leader, a charity founder.

• 28 mins

Sir David Willcocks, Merv Adelson, Mariem Hassan, Brian Close, Beryl Renwick

Matthew Bannister on a choirmaster, a producer, a singer, a cricketer, a radio presenter.

• 28 mins

Brian Sewell, Jackie Collins, Ted Smith CBE, PJ Kavanagh, Yogi Berra

Matthew Bannister on an art critic, a novelist, a naturalist, a poet and a baseball player

• 28 mins

Brian Friel, General Mario Menendez, Tessa Ransford, John Guillermin, Ben Cauley

Matthew Bannister talks about a playwright, a general, a poet and a director.

• 28 mins

Lord Denis Healey, Carmen Balcells, Henning Mankell, Revd Kenneth Leech and Captain Bob Arnott

Lucy Ash on a politician, a literary agent, a crime writer, a QE2 captain and a churchman.

• 28 mins

Geoffrey Howe, Sue Lloyd-Roberts, Joe Henson, Hugh Scully and Alexander Faris

Julian Worricker on a politician, a journalist, a farmer, a TV presenter and a composer.

• 28 mins

General John Galvin, Joan Leslie, Michael Meacher, Howard Kendall, Jerry Parr and Coleridge Goode

Matthew Bannister on a general, an actress, an MP, a football manager and a bodyguard.

• 28 mins

Professor Lisa Jardine, Philip French, Ronnie Massarella, Maureen O'Hara

Matthew Bannister on a polymath, a critic, a showjumping manager, a film star

• 28 mins

Norman Moore, Diane Charlemagne, Professor David Cesarani, Colin Welland and Peter Donaldson

Matthew Bannister on a conservationist, a singer, an historian, an actor, a newsreader

• 28 mins

Helmut Schmidt, Pat Eddery, Julia Jones, Lord Noon and Nat Peck

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

Roy Dommett, Warren Mitchell, Allen Toussaint, Cynthia Payne and Jonah Lomu

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

Peter Dimmock, Alix d'Unienville, Yolanda Sonnabend, Maggie Eales and George Barris

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

General Sir Robert Ford, Hazel Adair, Jane Wardle, Gerry Byrne and P.F Sloan

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

Marcus Klingberg, William McIlvanney, Setsuko Hara, Joel Elkes and John Peel

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

Mick Murphy, Ahmed Chalabi, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Brajraj Mahapatra and Holly Woodlawn

Matthew Bannister on a cyclist, a politician, a singer, a king, an actress.

• 28 mins

Some of the most memorable lives of the past twelve months

A scientist, a diver, a marchioness and a singer - memorable lives from 2015 are recalled.

• 28 mins

Eric Tomlinson, Elsie Tu, Peter Dickinson, Lillian Vernon and Lemmy

Julian Worricker on a sound engineer, a campaigner, a writer, a businesswoman, a musician.

• 28 mins

Robert Stigwood, Patricia Torrens, Pierre Boulez, Lord Ezra, Natalie Cole

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Olwyn Hughes and Ed Stewart

Matthew Bannister on a rock star, an actor, a literary agent, a DJ

• 28 mins

Glenn Frey, Lord Weidenfeld, Jeanne Cordova, Haskell Wexler, Gilbert Kaplan.

Matthew Bannister on a rock star, a publisher, a lesbian campaigner, a cinematographer.

• 28 mins

Lord Parkinson, Bill Mitchell, Paddy Doherty, Henry Worsley, Dr Gladys-Marie Fry

Matthew Bannister on a politician, an editor, an activist, an explorer, a folklorist

• 30 mins

Terry Wogan, Lord Lucan, Frank Finlay, Denise St Aubyn Hubbard, Maurice White

Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, an earl, an actor, a sailor, a musician

• 28 mins

Marvin Minsky, Margaret Forster, Peter Powell, Sir Brian Tovey, Joe Alaskey

Matthew Bannister on a computer scientist, a writer, a kite inventor, a GCHQ director

• 28 mins