Great Lives

361 Episodes

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

   Published: 23/09/2024
2. Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris

   Published: 16/09/2024
3. The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis

   Published: 2/09/2024
4. The Roman Emperor Nero

   Published: 26/08/2024
5. Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe

   Published: 19/08/2024
6. Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint

   Published: 13/08/2024
7. Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens

   Published: 5/08/2024
8. Mary Portas on Anita Roddick

   Published: 27/05/2024
9. Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem

   Published: 13/05/2024
10. Queen Emma

    Published: 7/05/2024
11. James Dyson on Frank Whittle

    Published: 29/04/2024
12. Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit

    Published: 22/04/2024
13. Antoni Gaudi

    Published: 15/04/2024
14. Sir Bruce Forsyth

    Published: 8/04/2024
15. Harry Enfield on Gerard Hoffnung

    Published: 1/04/2024
16. Alan Freeman picked by Simon Mayo

    Published: 23/01/2024
17. Actor Niamh Cusack on the life of poet Mary Oliver

    Published: 16/01/2024
18. Mr Motivator picks Harry Belafonte

    Published: 9/01/2024
19. Jimmy Wales on Thomas Jefferson

    Published: 2/01/2024
20. Eartha Kitt proposed by Faye Tozer

    Published: 26/12/2023