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Great Lives
By BBC Radio 4
Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
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Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore
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Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn
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Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott
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Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs
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Jessica Fostekew on Boudica
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AN Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
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Jake Arnott on John Gay
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Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison
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Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows
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Harriet Harman on Maria Callas
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Maggi Hambling picks muse and lover Henrietta Moraes
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Benny Hill
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Richey Edwards of The Manic Street Preachers
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Ned Ludd mythical leader of the Luddites
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Dervla Murphy, author of the classic Full Tilt
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Raymond Blanc on Professor Nicholas Kurti
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Tina Turner
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Emily Williamson, co-founder of the RSPB
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Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana
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DJ Deb Grant on John Prine
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Helen Castor on Richard II
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Miles Jupp on JL Carr, author of A Month in the Country
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Benjamin Franklin
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Jock Stein, first British football manager to win the European Cup
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Comedian Stewart Lee on Derek Bailey
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Elizabeth Day on Hatshepsut
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Sylvia Plath
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Oliver Postgate
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Spitfire pilot Jeffrey Quill picked by astronaut Tim Peake
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Alex Wheatle, the Bard of Brixton
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Helen Carr picks Christine de Pizan at the Gloucester history festival
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John Cooper Clarke on Johnny Green, road manager of The Clash
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Comedian Helen Lederer on Joan Rivers
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Pianist and broadcaster Keelan Carew nominates Russian composer Nicolai Medtner
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Dr Sian Williams nominates Anna Freud
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Daisy Dunn on Marcus Agrippa, ancient Rome's king of cement
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Beverley Knight on Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock and roll
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Alistair McGowan on HE Bates
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William Gladstone, four-time PM
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Coco Khan picks Edith Garrud, the jujitsu fighting suffragette
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Peter Cook picked by Jon Harvey aka Count Binface
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Tony Garnett picked by Harry Bradbeer
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Ade Edmondson on singer Sandy Denny
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Cleopatra picked by Kate Williams
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Cartoonist Naji al-Ali
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Actor Laurence Olivier with Derek Jacobi and Tim Walker
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Pauline Black of The Selecter on Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex
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Eric Ashby, Silent Watcher of the New Forest
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Ruby Tandoh on Brian Jacques author of the Redwall series
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Sign inBiographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- Podcast
- Language
- en
- Episodes
- 414
- Format
- episodic
- Website
- www.bbc.co.uk
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