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College
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Hint
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Alumnus
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Balliol College
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Author of Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley
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Scientist and vehement atheist
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Richard Dawkins
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PM between 1908 and 1916
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Herbert Henry Asquith
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Brasenose College
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PM between 2010 and 2016
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David Cameron
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Author of Lord of the Flies
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William Golding
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Travel writer and Python
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Michael Palin
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Christ Church
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Founder of Pennsylvania
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William Penn
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Author of Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
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Composer of Crown Imperial
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William Walton
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Corpus Christi College
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Leader of the Labour Party 2010-15
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Ed Miliband
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Brother of the above
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David Miliband
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The last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
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Reginald Pole
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Exeter College
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First runner of the sub-four-minute mile
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Roger Bannister
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Author of The Lord of the Rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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Famous for wallpaper designs
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William Morris
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Hertford College
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Author of Gulliver's Travels
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Jonathan Swift
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Composer of the Warsaw Concerto
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Richard Addinsell
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Author of Brideshead Revisited
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Evelyn Waugh
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Jesus College
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Archaeologist and military officer
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T.E. Lawrence
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Icelandic presenter of Mastermind
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Magnus Magnusson
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PM between 1964 and 1970, and 1974-76
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Harold Wilson
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Keble College
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Author of Millions
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Frank Cottrell Boyce
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Tenor and partner of Benjamin Britten
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Peter Pears
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Archbishop of York 1942-1955
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Cyril Garbett
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Lady Margaret Hall
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MP for Maidstone 1987-2010
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Ann Widdecombe
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Former Education Secretary (2010-14)
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Michael Gove
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Food writer and presenter
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Nigella Lawson
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Lincoln College
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Author, real name David Cornwell
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John le Carre
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Clerk of the House of Commons 2011-14
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Robert Rogers
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English composer (1565-1638)
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Francis Pilkington
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Magdalen College
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Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde
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Composer of Phantom, Cats, Joseph etc
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
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King, abdicated in 1936
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Edward VIII
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Mansfield College
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MP for Rhondda since 2001
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Chris Bryant
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Author of In Defense of Food
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Michael Pollan
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Artistic director of London Sinfonia (1988-94)
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Paul Crossley
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Merton College
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Scientist and presenter
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Adam Hart-Davis
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Author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
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Mark Haddon
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Poet and playwright (1888-1965)
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T.S. Eliot
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New College
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Comic actor, eg Bridget Jones
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Hugh Grant
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Author of Dream Children
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A.N. Wilson
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Comedian, comedy partner of Gryff Rhys Jones
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Mel Smith
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Oriel College
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Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1733 and 1737
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Charles Talbot
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Historian, author of The Origins of the Second World War
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A.J.P. Taylor
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Explorer and tobacco enthusiast
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Walter Raleigh
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Pembroke College
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Deputy PM under John Major
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Michael Heseltine
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Current King of Jordan
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Abdullah II
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Writer whose biography was written by Boswell
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Samuel Johnson
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The Queen's College
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Actor in Mr Bean and Blackadder
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Rowan Atkinson
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King of England and leader at Agincourt
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Henry V
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Inventor of the World Wide Web
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Tim Berners-Lee
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St Anne's College
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Author of the Bridget Jones books
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Helen Fielding
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Principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic
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Simon Rattle
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Author of Moon Tiger
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Penelope Lively
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St Catherine's College
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Actress in Silent Witness, Merlin etc.
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Emilia Fox
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Author of Catch-22
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Joseph Heller
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Co-creator of "New Labour"
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Peter Mandelson
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St Edmund Hall
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India's Minister of External Affairs
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Salman Khurshid
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Bishop of Calcutta, 1832-58
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Daniel Wilson
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MP for Holborn; formerly Director of Public Prosecutions
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Keir Starmer
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St Hilda's College
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Author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
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Susanna Clarke
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Author of Quartet in Autumn
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Barbara Pym
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Author of Troy, Ithaka etc
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Adele Geras
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St Hugh's College
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Current UK Prime Minister
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Theresa May
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Author of romantic novels eg A Village Affair
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Joanna Trollope
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Secretary of State for Education, 2014-16
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Nicky Morgan
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St John's College
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PM between 1997 and 2007
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Tony Blair
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Inventor of the horse-drawn seed drill
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Jethro Tull
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Author of The Whitsun Weddings
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Philip Larkin
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St Peter's College
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Writer of the screenplay for Slumdog Millionnaire
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Simon Beaufoy
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First woman bishop appointed by the Church of England
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Libby Lane
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Washington correspondent for the BBC
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Ben Wright
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Somerville College
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Author of The Children's Book
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A.S. Byatt
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First female PM of the UK
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Margaret Thatcher
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First female PM of India
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Indira Gandhi
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Trinity College
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British PM known as "the Elder"
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William Pitt
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Composer of The Banks of Green Willow
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George Butterworth
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Director of final four Harry Potter films
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David Yates
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University College
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PM of the UK from 1945-51
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Clement Attlee
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Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
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C.S. Lewis
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Physicist suffering from ALS
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Stephen Hawking
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Wadham College
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Architect of St Paul's Cathedral
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Christopher Wren
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Author of The Hired Man
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Melvyn Bragg
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Poet and author of We're Going On A Bear Hunt
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Michael Rosen
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Worcester College
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Screenwriter and producer who revived Doctor Who
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Russell T. Davies
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Actress who portrayed Hermione Granger
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Emma Watson
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Author of Watership Down
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Richard Adams
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