Maya Angelou appreciation – ‘The ache for home lives in all of us’

Maya Angelou said she had thousands of daughters. I wonder if she ever knew really how many, writes Afua Hirsch

Maya Angelou obituary

Writer, poet and civil rights campaigner lauded for her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Controller of Radio 3 and Radio 4 who caused controversy with his shakeup of the schedules

Sociologist who championed the study of class inequality

Fiery conservationist, writer and defender of Canada's wilderness

Broadcaster, writer and composer best known for his Talking About Music series on BBC radio

Poet and dramatist haunted by the second world war and the suffering of Poland

Editor, trainer of journalists and authority on media law

Second world war Spitfire pilot and PoW who was an inspiration for Steve McQueen's character in The Great Escape

Other lives: Actor, director and playwright who wrote and appeared in Doctor Who episodes

Influential editor, critic and commentator on the international music business

Other lives: Bookseller and publisher of specialist books on psychoanalysis

Presenter of Radio 4's The Food Programme who took on politicians and industry chiefs

One of the world's most successful corporate identity and branding gurus

Artist, architect and wartime Bevin boy whose work was inspired by the mines of south Wales