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David Elliston Allen - Historian of natural science Interviewed by Jack Goody and Alan Macfarlane 12th April 1983

Peter Burke - Professor of Cultural History interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 31st July 2004 wikipedia entry

Owen Chadwick - Former Vice-Chancellor, Regius Professor of Modern History and Master of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 29th February 2008 wikipedia entry

John Dunn - Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, Cambridge University interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 5th March 2008 wikipedia entry

Owen Gingerich - Former Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science, Harvard University; senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 31st August 2008 wikipedia entry

Eric Hobsbawm - President of Birkbeck, University of London interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 13th September 2009 wikipedia entry

Lisa Jardine - Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London; Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 31st October 2008 wikipedia entry

Peter Mathias - Former Chichele Professor of Economic History at Oxford and Master at Downing College, Cambridge interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 5th March 2008 and 23rd September 2009

Andrew Morgan - Formerly Headmaster of De Aston School, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Andrew Morgan interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 14th May 2000

Patrick O'Brien - Professor of Economic History interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 28th May 2005 L.S.E. who's who

Simon Schaffer - Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 27th June, continued 1st and 2nd July 2008 wikipedia entry

Quentin Skinner - Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 10th January 2008 wikipedia entry

Keith Thomas - Fellow of All Souls College; previously President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 5th September 2009 wikipedia entry