Great Lives
A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Mondays
386 Episodes
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Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs
Published: 2/3/2025 -
Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott
Published: 1/27/2025 -
Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn
Published: 1/20/2025 -
Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore
Published: 1/13/2025 -
Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau
Published: 1/6/2025 -
Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu
Published: 9/23/2024 -
Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris
Published: 9/16/2024 -
The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis
Published: 9/2/2024 -
The Roman Emperor Nero
Published: 8/26/2024 -
Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe
Published: 8/19/2024 -
Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint
Published: 8/13/2024 -
Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens
Published: 8/5/2024 -
Mary Portas on Anita Roddick
Published: 5/27/2024 -
Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem
Published: 5/13/2024 -
Queen Emma
Published: 5/7/2024 -
James Dyson on Frank Whittle
Published: 4/29/2024 -
Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit
Published: 4/22/2024 -
Antoni Gaudi
Published: 4/15/2024 -
Sir Bruce Forsyth
Published: 4/8/2024 -
Harry Enfield on Gerard Hoffnung
Published: 4/1/2024
Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.