A BBC political editor, a naturalist, a landscape architect, a Sultan and a union leader

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Matthew Bannister on the BBC Political Editor John Cole who covered the turbulent politics of the 1980s - and was satirised by Spitting Image. Also Professor John Cloudsley-Thompson - once called the "Titan of the Sahara" - he was a leading expert on the wildlife of the world's deserts. Georgina Livingston, the landscape architect who designed a competition-winning scheme for Stonehenge Roy Grantham, the moderate trade union leader who struggled to resolve the bitter 1970s dispute at the Grunwick photo processing plant And the Sultan of Sulu - who late in life launched an abortive bid to annexe part of North Borneo. Producer: Neil George.