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Radio 4,08 Dec 2009,30 mins

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Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes discusses the life of Henry V and tries to separate fact from myth, with the help of historian Juliet Barker.

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