Great Lives Episodes Episode guide
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Emily Williamson, co-founder of the RSPB
Notable guests pick someone who has inspired their lives.
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Tina Turner
Famous guests pick someone they are passionate about
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Raymond Blanc on Professor Nicholas Kurti
Raymond Blanc chooses physicist Nicholas Kurti.
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Dervla Murphy, author of the classic Full Tilt
Famous guests pick someone who has inspired their lives
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Ned Ludd mythical leader of the Luddites
Famous guests pick someone who has inspired their lives
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Richey Edwards of The Manic Street Preachers
Guests pick great lives they admire or are passionate about.
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Benny Hill
Benny Hill is this week's surprising selection for Great Lives.
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Maggi Hambling picks muse and lover Henrietta Moraes
Artist Maggi Hambling picks her muse.
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Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison
Crime writer Mark Billingham nominates the musician, singer and songwriter George Harrison
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Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
Film journalist Ellen E Jones nominates the flamboyant American activist Florynce Kennedy
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A N Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe picked by writer A N Wilson.
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Jessica Fostekew on Boudica
Comedian Jessica Fostekew nominates the ancient English warrior queen, Boudica.
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Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs
Five time socialist presidential candidate Eugene Victor Debs picked by Reginald D Hunter.
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Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott
Conservationist Peter Scott, founder of Slimbridge, is picked by Pen Hadow.
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Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn
The Royal Ballet's Lauren Cuthbertson on quintessential British ballerina Margot Fonteyn.
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Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore
Dr Hannah Critchlow selects the neurobiologist Professor Colin Blakemore.
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Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau
Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan nominates oceanographer and explorer Jacques Cousteau.
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Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu
Biography show where famous guests pick someone they admire or love.
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Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris
Anneka Rice picks Jane Morris, wife of William Morris and muse to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Jo Brand picks American blues singer Bessie Smith
The biography show where famous guests pick someone they admire or love.
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The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis
Biography show where famous guests pick someone from history they admire or love.
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The Roman Emperor Nero
Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
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Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe
Biographical show in which famous guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
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Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint
Biography series in which famous guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
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Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens
The great Miriam Margolyes chooses her hero, Charles Dickens
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Mary Portas on Anita Roddick
Mary Portas chooses the founder of The Body Shop Dame Anita Roddick as her Great Life.
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Harriet Harman on Maria Callas
Harriet Harman nominates opera star Maria Callas.
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Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem
Dr Hayaatun Sillem chooses the extraordinary life of Lady Rachel MacRobert.
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Queen Emma
Alice Roberts chooses the wife of two kings - Aethelred and Canute.
