Great Lives

388 Episodes

1. A N Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   Published: 2/17/2025
2. Jessica Fostekew on Boudica

   Published: 2/10/2025
3. Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs

   Published: 2/3/2025
4. Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott

   Published: 1/27/2025
5. Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn

   Published: 1/20/2025
6. Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore

   Published: 1/13/2025
7. Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau

   Published: 1/6/2025
8. Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu

   Published: 9/23/2024
9. Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris

   Published: 9/16/2024
10. The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis

    Published: 9/2/2024
11. The Roman Emperor Nero

    Published: 8/26/2024
12. Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe

    Published: 8/19/2024
13. Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint

    Published: 8/13/2024
14. Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens

    Published: 8/5/2024
15. Mary Portas on Anita Roddick

    Published: 5/27/2024
16. Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem

    Published: 5/13/2024
17. Queen Emma

    Published: 5/7/2024
18. James Dyson on Frank Whittle

    Published: 4/29/2024
19. Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit

    Published: 4/22/2024
20. Antoni Gaudi

    Published: 4/15/2024