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Great Lives

Great Lives

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

Recent Episodes

  • Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu

    2 months ago

  • Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris

    2 months ago

  • The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis

    3 months ago

  • The Roman Emperor Nero

    3 months ago

  • Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe

    3 months ago

  • Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint

    3 months ago

  • Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens

    3 months ago

  • Mary Portas on Anita Roddick

    6 months ago

  • Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem

    6 months ago

  • Queen Emma

    6 months ago