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Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

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

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29 episodes
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November 2 · 24 min
Mel Giedroyc on Vera Gedroits
Famous guests pick someone they love or admire.
October 26 · 27 min
Lea Ypi on Kant
Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
October 19 · 27 min
Shaun Keaveny picks Caroline Aherne
Shaun Keaveny chooses the comedian Caroline Aherne.
October 12 · 27 min
Tony Juniper on EO Wilson
Dr Tony Juniper picks the Biologist EO Wilson.
October 5 · 27 min
Russell Kane on Iris Murdoch
Famous guests pick someone they love or admire... or both.
September 28 · 27 min
Ruby Tandoh on Brian Jacques author of the Redwall series
Ruby Tandoh picks the author of the Redwall series, Brian Jacques.
September 21 · 27 min
Eric Ashby, Silent Watcher of the New Forest
Famous guests pick someone they love or admire.
September 14 · 27 min
Pauline Black of The Selecter on Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex
Famous people pick someone they love or admire.
August 14 · 27 min
Actor Laurence Olivier with Derek Jacobi and Tim Walker
Famous guests nominate someone they love or admire.
June 2 · 27 min
Cartoonist Naji al-Ali
Mona Chalabi chooses Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist shot in London in 1987.
June 1 · 27 min
Cleopatra picked by Kate Williams
Kate Williams picks Cleopatra, queen of ancient Egypt for over 20 years.
May 19 · 27 min
Ade Edmondson on singer Sandy Denny
Ade Edmondson - star of The Young Ones and much more - chooses the singer Sandy Denny.
May 19 · 27 min
Tony Garnett picked by Harry Bradbeer
The director of Fleabag and Killing Eve picks the producer of Kes and Cathy Come Home.
May 19 · 27 min
Peter Cook picked by Jon Harvey aka Count Binface
Comedian Jon Harvey picks Peter Cook as his hero for Great Lives.
May 19 · 27 min
Coco Khan picks Edith Garrud, the jujitsu fighting suffragette
Journalist Coco Khan picks the formidable jujitsu fighting suffragette, Edith Garrud.
May 19 · 27 min
William Gladstone, four-time PM
Trevor Lyttleton picks William Gladstone, Victorian prime minister and tory turned liberal
May 11 · 27 min
Alistair McGowan on HE Bates
Impressionist, poet and comedian Alistair McGowan on author HE Bates
May 11 · 27 min
Beverley Knight on Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock and roll
Beverley Knight picks the great Rosetta Tharpe, gospel singer turned pioneer.
March 2 · 27 min
Daisy Dunn on Marcus Agrippa, ancient Rome's king of cement
Classicist Daisy Dunn picks Marcus Agrippa, right-hand man of the emperor Augustus.
February 23 · 27 min
Dr Sian Williams nominates Anna Freud
Psychoanalyst Anna Freud is the choice of broadcaster and psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

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