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The former head of Friends of the Earth and impassioned protector of the environment - Tony Juniper - talks about what nature does for Britain.

Tony Juniper CBE is a campaigner, writer, sustainability adviser and a well-known British environmentalist. For more than 30 years he has worked for change toward a more sustainable society at local, national and international levels. From providing ecology and conservation experiences for primary school children, making the case for new recycling laws, to orchestrating international campaigns for action on rainforests and climate change, his work has sought change at many levels.

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The best selling writer Joanna Trollop talks about why she writes and the inspiration behind her hit books.

Joanna Trollope has been writing for over thirty years and is well known for her enormously successful contemporary works of fiction. She has been described as one of the most insightful chroniclers and social commenters writing fiction today.

For all her novels, Joanna undertakes meticulous research, involving huge amounts of interviewing and travel – often on foot or by public transport, of which she is an enthusiastic fan.

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Helen Macdonald talks about training a goshawk Mabel in the aftermath of her father's death. Her critically acclaimed book H is for Hawk winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year 2014.

Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist, and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. She is best known as the author of H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award. In 2016, it also won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France.

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The award winning historian Antonia Fraser talks to Rosie Boycott about her childhood, speed reading and growing up the eldest of eight children.

Her father was the exquisitely eccentric Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, the British politician and social reformer who was once beaten up by thugs at a meeting addressed by Sir Oswald Mosley - and her mother the historian Elizabeth Harman.

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Andrew Solomon is an author and one of five parents with four children in three states.

Here he talks about finding peace with being gay, after a long and tortured period, becoming a father and discovering the greatest joy in his extended family.

Andrew Solomon, Ph.D., is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the arts. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center, and President of PEN American Center.

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Creative director of Vogue Grace Coddington talks about her life in fashion.

Grace Coddington is the creative director of Vogue. She started her career modelling, working with such world-class photographers as David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, before she stepped behind the camera to become a fashion editor at British Vogue in the late 1960s.

Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the acclaimed 2009 documentary that turned publicity-averse Grace into a sudden, reluctant celebrity. Her book, 'Grace: A Memoir' was released by Random House in 2012.

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Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, by Martin Gayford.

Martin Gayford is the art critic for Bloomberg News and The Spectator, and contributes regularly to The Daily Telegraph, The Lady, Modern Painters and Harpers & Queen. Gayford described chronologically, in the acclaimed book Man With a Blue Scarf, sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs and images and the result vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of creating a painting by a great artist. His newest book is A Bigger Message - which chronicles Gayford's conversations with David Hockney over many years and is destined to become another classic.

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Writer Victoria Hislop talks about the deserted Greek island of Spinalonga - a former leper colony.

Victoria Hislop is a journalist and author. She writes travel features for The Sunday Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, House & Garden and Woman & Home. Her first novel The Island about the deserted Greek island of Spinalonga - a former leper colony - was published in 2005 held the number 1 slot in the paperback charts for over 8 weeks, selling over 2 millions copies in the UK. The book has also been published in over twenty languages and has also been a number 1 bestseller in Greece. The Island was filmed as a TV series by the Greek TV channel MEGA and has had record-breaking audiences. In 2008, she published her second novel, The Return.

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Writer Victoria Hislop talks about the deserted Greek island of Spinalonga - a former leper colony.

Victoria Hislop is a journalist and author. She writes travel features for The Sunday Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, House & Garden and Woman & Home. Her first novel The Island about the deserted Greek island of Spinalonga - a former leper colony - was published in 2005 held the number 1 slot in the paperback charts for over 8 weeks, selling over 2 millions copies in the UK. The book has also been published in over twenty languages and has also been a number 1 bestseller in Greece. The Island was filmed as a TV series by the Greek TV channel MEGA and has had record-breaking audiences. In 2008, she published her second novel, The Return.

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Broadcaster Kirsty Wark talks about the island of Arran, which nestles in the Firth of Clyde.

Kirsty Wark joined the BBC as a graduate researcher in 1976 for BBC Radio Scotland, going on to become a producer in radio current affairs.

After a spell on Radio 4's The World At One, Kirsty moved to television in 1983 - working as a producer on Reporting Scotland and later producing and presenting the current affairs weekly Seven Days.

Kirsty has interviewed many top politicians, but her most memorable interview was in 1990 when she conducted a headline-making interview with the-then prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.

From 1990-1993 she presented the arts programme The Late Show and in 1993 fronted the popular BBC heritage series One Foot In The Past - a role she continued into 2000.

In October 1993 Kirsty became one of the Newsnight presenters. In 2001 she also became a regular presenter of Newsnight Review and subsequently presenter of the Glasgow-based Review Show.

Kirsty also presents an occasional series of interviews for BBC Four with guests as wide-ranging as Toni Morrison, Hannan Ashrawi, Madonna and Woody Allen.

She has won several major awards for her work including Bafta Scotland Journalist of the Year in 1993, Best Television Presenter in 1998, Scot of the Year in 1998 and was nominated for the Richard Dimbleby Award for Best Television Presenter in the Baftas in 2000.

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