Great Lives Episodes Available now
Franz Schubert
Cellist Steven Isserlis and musicologist Brian Newbould on the composer Franz Schubert.
George Eliot
Ex-parliamentary standards commissioner Elizabeth Filkin chooses novelist George Eliot.
Sir Donald Wolfit
Humphrey Carpenter invites Ned Sherrin to discuss actor Sir Donald Wolfit.
King Hussein
Jackie Stewart discusses his good friend King Hussein of Jordan with writer Patrick Seale.
Vivekananda
Rabbi Lionel Blue and Gwilym Beckerlegge discuss Swami Vivekananda.
HG Wells
Writer Fay Weldon and biographer Vincent Brome discuss the life of the visionary novelist.
Marshall McLuhan
Kim Henry Veltman joins director Jonathan Miller to discuss the Canadian writer on media.
Henri Matisse
Writer Frank Delaney and biographer Hilary Spurling discuss the painter Henri Matisse
Sylvia Pankhurst
Barbara Castle and biographer Mary Davis discuss the life of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cartoonist Ralph Steadman and translator Adam Czerniawski discuss the philosopher's life.
