Great Lives - Series 19
Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives
Great Lives - Series 19 - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Andrew Motion champions the life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate for over 40 years and creator of In Memoriam and The Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Great Lives - Series 19 - Freya Stark
Travel writer Dervla Murphy discusses another woman traveller, Freya Stark, who roamed across Arabia and Persia and during WWII set up a pro-British intelligence network in Cairo.
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Great Lives - Series 19 - Harry Houdini
Paul Daniels explores the life of Harry Houdini with help from Houdini biographer William Kalush, who argues that the master escapologist may have been murdered by spiritualists.
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Great Lives - Series 19 - Joe Slovo
Foreign secretary David Miliband discusses the life of Joe Slovo, a leading member of the ANC and the first housing minister in Nelson Mandela's government.
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Great Lives - Series 19 - John Cornford
George Galloway chooses British poet and political activist John Cornford, who died at the age of 21 fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
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Great Lives - Series 19 - Miriam Makeba
Matthew Parris presents the biographical series. Kate Humble discusses her heroine, the South African singer and anti-apartheid activist, Miriam Makeba.
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Great Lives - Series 19 - Rudyard Kipling
Matthew Parris presents the biographical series. John Major discusses the life of Rudyard Kipling, poet to the British Empire. They are joined by Kipling biographer Andrew Lycett.
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Great Lives - Series 19 - Samuel Johnson
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, nominates Samuel Johnson, writer of the great dictionary. Dr Johnson's biographer, Peter Martin, joins the discussion.
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Great Lives - Series 19 - Sir Kyffin Williams
Rolf Harris discusses the life of Welsh painter Sir Kyffin Williams, famous for his paintings inspired by the north Wales landscape. Prof Derec Llwyd Morgan joins the discussion.
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