Great Lives
A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Mondays

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372 Episodes
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Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows
Published: 09/04/2025 -
Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison
Published: 03/03/2025 -
Jake Arnott on John Gay
Published: 03/03/2025 -
Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
Published: 24/02/2025 -
A N Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Published: 17/02/2025 -
Jessica Fostekew on Boudica
Published: 10/02/2025 -
Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs
Published: 03/02/2025 -
Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott
Published: 27/01/2025 -
Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn
Published: 20/01/2025 -
Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore
Published: 13/01/2025 -
Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau
Published: 06/01/2025 -
Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu
Published: 23/09/2024 -
Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris
Published: 16/09/2024 -
The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis
Published: 02/09/2024 -
The Roman Emperor Nero
Published: 26/08/2024 -
Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe
Published: 19/08/2024 -
Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint
Published: 13/08/2024 -
Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens
Published: 05/08/2024 -
Mary Portas on Anita Roddick
Published: 27/05/2024 -
Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem
Published: 13/05/2024
Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.