Would Shakespeare have made it?

Well, we in Berkshire came up with quite a list to get him started. It's not as easy as you'd think. As James told me today, the first twenty or so are easy, and perhaps obvious. But after that, it gets quite problematical - because it raises the question; what actually qualifies someone as a great modern Elizabethan?

Do they have to be famous, iconic, or have achieved something really great themslves? We've been playing around all morning with influential and memorable names like Alan Sugar, The Beatles, Simon Cowell, Margaret Thatcher, Bobby Moore, Twiggy, David Attenborough, Richard Branson, Frances Chichester - just keep adding to the list.

But will we still feel strongly about any of those names, say, in twenty years' time? Historians have said that, in their own Tudor day, Elizabethans would probably not have rated William Shakespeare as a true great iconic figure.