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Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
| Mortimer Adler, Philosopher (1902) |
| Spencer Bachus, Politician (1947) |
| Guy Debord, Writer (1931) |
| Arthur Eddington, Scientist (1882) |
| Max Hastings, Journalist (1945) |
| Roy Hattersley, Statesman (1932) |
| Tim Johnson, Politician (1946) |
| Nigel Kennedy, Musician (1956) |
| Stan Lee, Writer (1922) |
| John Legend, Musician (1978) |
| Hervey Allen, Author (1949) |
| Pierre Bayle, Philosopher (1706) |
| Clarence Day, Author (1935) |
| George Gissing, Novelist (1903) |


