Great Lives

A podcast by BBC Radio 4

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361 Episodes

  1. Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 5/13/2024
  10. Queen Emma

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

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

    Published: 4/22/2024
  13. Antoni Gaudi

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 1/2/2024
  20. Eartha Kitt proposed by Faye Tozer

    Published: 12/26/2023

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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.