Great Lives

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

Recent Episodes
  • Raymond Blanc on Professor Nicholas Kurti
    Jun 9, 2025 – 27:39
  • Dervla Murphy, author of the classic Full Tilt
    Jun 2, 2025 – 27:38
  • Ned Ludd mythical leader of the Luddites
    May 26, 2025 – 27:43
  • Richey Edwards of The Manic Street Preachers
    May 19, 2025 – 27:40
  • Benny Hill
    May 12, 2025 – 27:28
  • Maggi Hambling picks muse and lover Henrietta Moraes
    May 5, 2025 – 27:35
  • Harriet Harman on Maria Callas
    Apr 29, 2025 – 27:57
  • Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows
    Apr 9, 2025 – 27:56
  • Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison
    Mar 3, 2025 – 27:00
  • Jake Arnott on John Gay
    Mar 3, 2025 – 27:42
  • Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
    Feb 24, 2025 – 27:59
  • A N Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Feb 17, 2025 – 27:47
  • Jessica Fostekew on Boudica
    Feb 10, 2025 – 27:44
  • Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs
    Feb 3, 2025 – 27:41
  • Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott
    Jan 27, 2025 – 27:48
  • Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn
    Jan 20, 2025 – 28:06
  • Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore
    Jan 13, 2025 – 27:59
  • Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau
    Jan 6, 2025 – 28:07
  • Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu
    Sep 23, 2024 – 27:47
  • Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris
    Sep 16, 2024 – 27:46
  • The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis
    Sep 2, 2024 – 27:44
  • The Roman Emperor Nero
    Aug 26, 2024 – 27:36
  • Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe
    Aug 19, 2024 – 27:47
  • Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint
    Aug 13, 2024 – 27:52
  • Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens
    Aug 5, 2024 – 27:54
  • Mary Portas on Anita Roddick
    May 27, 2024 – 27:48
  • Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem
    May 13, 2024 – 27:54
  • Queen Emma
    May 7, 2024 – 27:37
  • James Dyson on Frank Whittle
    Apr 29, 2024 – 27:54
  • Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit
    Apr 22, 2024 – 27:49
  • Antoni Gaudi
    Apr 15, 2024 – 27:23
  • Sir Bruce Forsyth
    Apr 8, 2024 – 27:43
  • Harry Enfield on Gerard Hoffnung
    Apr 1, 2024 – 27:56
  • Alan Freeman picked by Simon Mayo
    Jan 23, 2024 – 27:50
  • Actor Niamh Cusack on the life of poet Mary Oliver
    Jan 16, 2024 – 28:24
  • Mr Motivator picks Harry Belafonte
    Jan 9, 2024 – 28:30
  • Jimmy Wales on Thomas Jefferson
    Jan 2, 2024 – 27:49
  • Eartha Kitt proposed by Faye Tozer
    Dec 26, 2023 – 28:27
  • John Gray on JG Ballard
    Dec 19, 2023 – 28:25
  • Iszi Lawrence on Diana Barnato Walker
    Dec 14, 2023 – 28:52
  • Mohammad Mossadegh, PM of Iran ousted in a coup
    Dec 5, 2023 – 28:17
  • Ludwig Koch
    Sep 29, 2023 – 27:46
  • Lady Eve Balfour
    Sep 29, 2023 – 27:41
  • Ken Loach on Gerrard Winstanley
    Sep 29, 2023 – 27:44
  • Chi-chi Nwanoku on Jessye Norman
    Sep 19, 2023 – 27:51
  • Ninette de Valois
    Sep 5, 2023 – 27:51
  • Sophie Scott on Hattie Jacques
    Aug 15, 2023 – 27:51
  • Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore and London Zoo
    Aug 8, 2023 – 27:35
  • Susie Dent on Thomas Mann
    Aug 1, 2023 – 27:56
  • Tony Benn
    Jun 1, 2023 – 27:51
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