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As a new year stretches out before us, Roy Jenkins takes the opportunity to remind us of just a few of the people who featured in All Things Considered during the past twelve months.

They have ranged from men and women living on the streets to writers and performers with audiences across the world; from leaders of national campaigns to individuals who’ve given their lives to the communities they’ve grown up in. Many are people of faith, some have faced great tragedies, and all have stories well worth hearing again.

Among the contributors are: Archbishop Rowan Williams, Sarah Jones the Church in Wales’ first transgender priest and poet and theologian Padraig O’Tuama who has recently completed a five-year term as leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organisation.
And we mark the death of Jean Vanier the inspirational founder of the L’Arche communities, where people with learning disabilities, and those without, live and work together.