cast
- Stephen Sackur Self - Host
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Tenzin Gyatso
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Yehudi Menuhin
- Thabo Mbeki
- Farouk Al-Sharaa
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Chris Patten
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Edward Said
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Alan Rusbridger
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George Melly
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky
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Robert Mugabe
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Jackie Collins
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Georg Solti
- Ehud Barak
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Ute Lemper
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Nelson Mandela
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Sylvie Guillem
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
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Suzy Eddie Izzard
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Alexander Lebed
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Ismail Merchant
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Tom Clancy
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Norman Finkelstein
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Donald Trump
- Caspar Weinberger
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Newt Gingrich
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Romano Prodi
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Bobby Charlton
- Ahmed Yassin
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Gloria Stuart
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Peter Fonda
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Jon Landau
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Steve Forbes
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Maya Angelou
- Antoinette Sibley
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Ian McKellen
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Václav Havel
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Darcey Bussell
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Peter Ustinov
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Douglas Hurd
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Cyd Charisse
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Benazir Bhutto
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Anatoly Chubais
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John Peel
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Michael Flatley
- Louise Arbour
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Shimon Peres
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John Fashanu
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Javier Solana
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David Shayler
- Gerry Robinson
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Ben Kingsley
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Nina Simone
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Roberto Benigni
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Paddy Ashdown
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Griff Rhys Jones
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Richard Dreyfuss
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Rod Steiger
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Terry Pratchett
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Saeed Jaffrey
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Harold Pinter
- Shaun Pollock
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Olara Otunnu
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Ike Turner
- Christiaan Barnard
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Helmut Kohl
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Edward Heath
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Walter Cronkite
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David Irving
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Mo Mowlam
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Tina Sinatra
- Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
- Harvey Goldsmith
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Simon Napier-Bell
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Bob Geldof
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Nick Griffin
- Cyril Ramaphosa
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Tokyo Sexwale
- Albie Sachs
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Shane Warne
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Gerard Houllier
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Sebastian Coe
- Ellen MacArthur
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Sepp Blatter
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Woody Allen
- Rafik Hariri
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Arnaud Montebourg
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Hanan Ashrawi
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Ellen Burstyn
- Han Seung-Soo
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John Major
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Peter Mandelson
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Jack Straw
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Desmond Tutu
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Al-Waleed bin Talal
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Jeremy Corbyn
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Danielle Pletka
- John Stevens
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Amartya Sen
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Djemel Barek
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Theresa May
- Nicholas van Hoogstraten
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Carl Bernstein
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Vandana Shiva
- Tyrone Brooks
- José Ramos-Horta
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Alain Minc
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Hilary Benn
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James Dyson
- José María Aznar
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Pascal Lamy
- Paul Rusesabagina
- Jeremy Greenstock
- Lord Zac Goldsmith
- John Varley
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Rory Stewart
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Nick Clegg
- Keith Ellison
- Carne Ross
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David Lammy
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Stephen Rapp
- Freshta Raper
- Amr Moussa
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Victor Adebowale
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Richard Dawkins
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Alastair Campbell
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Greg Dyke
- Alexander Lebedev
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Alexandra Shulman
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Anwar Ibrahim
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Avi Arad
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Boris Berezovsky
- Carmen Clem
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Charles Clarke
- David Satterfield
- Decima Francis
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Garry Kasparov
- George Galloway
- Ghazi Hamad
- Helen Zille
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Isaac Herzog
- Ishmael Beah
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Jack Lang
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Jasvinder Sanghera
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Jay Garner
- Lee Smolin
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John Bolton
- Alex Goldfarb
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Marina Litvinenko
- Michael Eavis
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Mikhail Saakashvili
- Moazzam Begg
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Nicholas Burns
- Kalu Oji
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Pierre Lellouche
- Richard Lugar
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Radoslaw Sikorski
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Paul Nurse
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Tony Benn
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Norman Tebbit
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Victoria Nuland
- Yvo de Boer