Great Lives

391 Episodes

1. Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison

   Published: 3/03/2025
2. Jake Arnott on John Gay

   Published: 3/03/2025
3. Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy

   Published: 24/02/2025
4. A N Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   Published: 17/02/2025
5. Jessica Fostekew on Boudica

   Published: 10/02/2025
6. Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs

   Published: 3/02/2025
7. Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott

   Published: 27/01/2025
8. Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn

   Published: 20/01/2025
9. Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore

   Published: 13/01/2025
10. Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau

    Published: 6/01/2025
11. Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 13/05/2024
20. Queen Emma

    Published: 7/05/2024