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Mark Urban, Newsnight's Diplomatic Editor, tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on the world.

Chief of the General Staff General Sir Michael Jackson joins Mark Urban to discuss his experiences and what it means to be a soldier.

Naomi Klein discusses her life and work, including her controversial new book The Shock Doctrine.

AA Gill presents ten years of Table Talk.

Robert Harris discusses his new political thriller The Ghost and his career as a master of suspense.

Keith Allen explores his personal journey, from Navy baby to number-one record in his memoir Grow Up.

Julian Clary returns to discuss his work as a TV personality and his debut novel Murder Most Fab.

Alexander McCall Smith discusses his personal passion for W H Auden while Peter Stanford explores the life and work of Cheltenham-based Poet Laureate C Day Lewis.

Bruce Parry, presenter of BBC2's Tribe series, talks about his extraordinary experiences.

Via video-link Margaret Atwood will be talking from Canada to Erica Wagner about her writing, her recent short story collection Moral Disorder and new poetry volume The Door.

Simon Hoggart, Sue MacGregor, Alexander McCall Smith and John Simpson reveal which books they can't live without.

Richard Hammond discusses his life and work, the day that changed his life and his remarkable recovery.

TLS debate - who were the greatest: the Romans or the Greeks?

Iain Banks talks about his new novel, The Steep Approach to Garbadale, a twisted and compelling family saga.

The Blur bassist Alex James joins GQ Editor Dylan Jones to discuss music, celebrity and cheese-making.

John Humphreys argues that doubt is not the easy option when it comes to matters of faith.

Martin Amis joins Zachary Leader for a rare personal discussion of Kingsley Amis's life and work.

Esther Freud and Sophie Dahl discuss childhoods and how they shape the adults we become.

Roddy Doyle talks about his first collection of short stories The Deportees and Other Stories and asks if there is such a thing as 'being Irish'.

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