The week's most popular people
Marvin Minsky
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Making the most useless machine
Doris Lessing
Writer
Let's write a novel!
Alice Herz-Sommer
Pianist
Learning to play the piano
Peter Hall
Theatre director
How Waiting For Godot changed my life
Editor's choice
Katharine Whitehorn
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‘Heavy morals stopped us being rich’
George Daniels
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Escape from the bedding factory
Doris Lessing
Writer
Poverty, Indian restaurants and the Great Unmentionable
Ben Barres
Neurobiologist
Transsexual dating
Featured channel: Awards & Achievements
Baruch Blumberg
Physician
Black tie dinners and other Balliol traditions
Francis Crick
Biologist
Cooperation and rivalry in science
Ken Adam
Production designer
My first Oscar nomination
