Great Lives

372 Episodes

1. Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows

   Published: 09/04/2025
2. Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison

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

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

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

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

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

   Published: 03/02/2025
8. Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott

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

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

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

    Published: 06/01/2025
12. Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu

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

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

    Published: 02/09/2024
15. The Roman Emperor Nero

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

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

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

    Published: 05/08/2024
19. Mary Portas on Anita Roddick

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

    Published: 13/05/2024