Great Lives

385 Episodes

1. Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 13/05/2024
14. Queen Emma

    Published: 07/05/2024
15. James Dyson on Frank Whittle

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

    Published: 22/04/2024
17. Antoni Gaudi

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

    Published: 08/04/2024
19. Harry Enfield on Gerard Hoffnung

    Published: 01/04/2024
20. Alan Freeman picked by Simon Mayo

    Published: 23/01/2024