On screen
Cast
165 credited performers
Stephen Sackur
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Tenzin Gyatso
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Yehudi Menuhin
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Thabo Mbeki
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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
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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
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Caspar Weinberger
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Newt Gingrich
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Romano Prodi
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Bobby Charlton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Shaun Pollock
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Olara Otunnu
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Ike Turner
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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
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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
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Harvey Goldsmith
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Simon Napier-Bell
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Bob Geldof
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Nick Griffin
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Cyril Ramaphosa
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Tokyo Sexwale
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Albie Sachs
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Shane Warne
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Gerard Houllier
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Sebastian Coe
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Ellen MacArthur
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Sepp Blatter
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Woody Allen
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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
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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
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John Stevens
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Amartya Sen
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Djemel Barek
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Theresa May
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Nicholas van Hoogstraten
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Carl Bernstein
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Vandana Shiva
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Tyrone Brooks
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José Ramos-Horta
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Alain Minc
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Hilary Benn
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James Dyson
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Pascal Lamy
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Paul Rusesabagina
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Jeremy Greenstock
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Lord Zac Goldsmith
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John Varley
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Rory Stewart
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Nick Clegg
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Keith Ellison
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Carne Ross
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David Lammy
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Stephen Rapp
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Freshta Raper
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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
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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
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Carmen Clem
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Charles Clarke
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David Satterfield
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Decima Francis
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Garry Kasparov
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George Galloway
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Ghazi Hamad
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Helen Zille
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Isaac Herzog
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Ishmael Beah
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Jack Lang
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Jasvinder Sanghera
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Jay Garner
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Lee Smolin
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John Bolton
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Alex Goldfarb
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Marina Litvinenko
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Michael Eavis
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Mikhail Saakashvili
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Moazzam Begg
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Nicholas Burns
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Kalu Oji
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Pierre Lellouche
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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
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Yvo de Boer
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José María Aznar
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