SERIES
Series 14
Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris
First Broadcast11 Dec 2007
Latest Broadcast1 Feb 2008
Episodes7
Categories
Discussion & TalkLife Stories
Episodes
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Great Lives
Travel writer Redmond O'Hanlon proposes the pioneering naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
Jan 2008
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Great Lives
Jan Ravens champions Dame Thora Hird.
Dec 2007
EPISODE
Great Lives
Illustrator Quentin Blake nominates caricaturist George Cruikshank.
Dec 2007
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Great Lives
Roger Graef champions the great comic Groucho Marx.
Jan 2008
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Great Lives
Mountaineer Joe Simpson takes up the cause of the pioneering Austrian climber Hermann Buhl
Jan 2008
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Great Lives
Richard Sykes champions Howard Florey, the forgotten man in the discovery of penicillin.
Jan 2008
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Great Lives
Author Jacqueline Wilson nominates short story writer Katherine Mansfield for greatness.
Jan 2008