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David Bowie, art expert, fashion icon and media manipulator.

Alan Rickman, the actor most famous for playing villains from the Sheriff of Nottingham to Professor Snape.

Olwyn Hughes, the sister of the poet Ted Hughes who fiercely guarded his literary legacy and that of his late wife Sylvia Plath.

And Ed "Stewpot" Stewart, the Radio 1 and 2 DJ who presented Junior Choice.