Ian Wright, former footballer and broadcaster

Ian Wright, former footballer and broadcaster

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Gordon Buchanan is a wildlife cameraman and TV presenter. He is best known for the Animal Family & Me series of BBC documentaries in which he gets up close to wild bears, Arctic wolves, elephants and reindeer among other species.Gordon was brought up in Tobermory on the Isle of M ...  Show more

Sir Salman Rushdie, writer

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