Great Lives

362 Episodes

1. Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau

   Published: 1/6/2025
2. Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu

   Published: 9/23/2024
3. Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris

   Published: 9/16/2024
4. The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis

   Published: 9/2/2024
5. The Roman Emperor Nero

   Published: 8/26/2024
6. Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe

   Published: 8/19/2024
7. Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint

   Published: 8/13/2024
8. Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens

   Published: 8/5/2024
9. Mary Portas on Anita Roddick

   Published: 5/27/2024
10. Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem

    Published: 5/13/2024
11. Queen Emma

    Published: 5/7/2024
12. James Dyson on Frank Whittle

    Published: 4/29/2024
13. Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit

    Published: 4/22/2024
14. Antoni Gaudi

    Published: 4/15/2024
15. Sir Bruce Forsyth

    Published: 4/8/2024
16. Harry Enfield on Gerard Hoffnung

    Published: 4/1/2024
17. Alan Freeman picked by Simon Mayo

    Published: 1/23/2024
18. Actor Niamh Cusack on the life of poet Mary Oliver

    Published: 1/16/2024
19. Mr Motivator picks Harry Belafonte

    Published: 1/9/2024
20. Jimmy Wales on Thomas Jefferson

    Published: 1/2/2024