Great Lives

Below is a list of all of the Season 19 Episodes of Great Lives

Season 19

0. John H Hammond
0. Richard Beckinsale
0. Albert Einstein
0. Millicent Fawcett
0. Martha Gellhorn
0. William Beveridge
0. Pope John Paul II
0. Tintin
0. Anton Chekhov
0. Julius Caesar
0. Brian Clough
0. George Washington for greatness
0. Dame Thora Hird
0. Alfred Russel Wallace
0. Howard Florey
0. Groucho Marx
0. Paul Robeson
0. AE Housman
0. Lord Longford
0. Richard Pryor
0. Robert Hooke
0. Bill Slim
0. Robert Kennedy
0. Tennyson
0. Sir Kyffin Williams
0. Picasso
0. Douglas Jardine
0. Charlotte Guest
0. Carl Sagan
0. Sappho
0. Richard Nixon
0. Winston Churchill
0. De Sade
0. John Hegley Chooses Writer DH Lawrence
0. 3: Sir Geoffrey Robinson Chooses Playwright Samuel Beckett
0. 1: Sir Clive Sinclair Nominates Fellow Inventor Thomas Edison
0. 6: Green Mp Caroline Lucas Nominates German Green Politician Petra Kelly
0. Molly Parkin
0. 8: Harold Pinter
0. 6: Former Editor of the Times Simon Jenkins Proposes Edwin Lutyens, Architect of New Delhi and the Cenotaph
0. 7: Former Editor of the Times Simon Jenkins Proposes Edwin Lutyens, Architect of New Delhi and the Cenotaph
0. 7: Gracie Allen
0. 8: Vera Brittain
0. 9: Razia Sultana
0. 1: Dylan Thomas
0. 2: Will Self Nominates Oscar Wilde
0. 4: Musician and Broadcaster Tom Robinson Proposes George Lyward
0. 6: John Ford
0. 7: Goya
0. Edward Lear
0. 8: Sebastian Walker
0. Victor Spinetti
0. 4: Leonard Maguire
0. 5: Juvenal
0. 6: Stan Laurel
0. 7: Karel Reisz
0. 8: George Orwell
0. 1: Dick Francis
0. 3: A Royal Prince Rescued From a Savage Fate - Or a Child Prisoner of War?
0. 6: Max Mosely Nominates Philosopher John Stuart Mill
0. 3: Musician and performer Neil Innes discusses the life of his Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band colleague and friend Vivian Stanshall
0. 3: Chris Tarrant Chooses Kenny Everett
0. 5: Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth Nominates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Creator of Sherlock Holmes
0. 8: Primo Levi
0. 9: Florence Nightingale
0. 6: Max Mosley Nominates Philosopher John Stuart Mill
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 1 of 9)
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 1 of 9)
0. Biographical series presented by Matthew Parris. (Part 1 of 9)
0. Biographical Series with Matthew Parris.. (Part 3 of 9)
0. 4: Writer Julie Burchill Talks to Matthew About Hollywood Star Ava Gardner
0. 5: Paul Mason Talks to Matthew About French Anarchist Louise Michel
0. 5: Louise Michel
0. 8: Trade Unionist Brendan Barber Nominates American Author John Steinbeck
0. 9: Comedian Al Murray Champions the Life of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
0. 8: Trade Unionist Sir Brendan Barber Nominates American Author John Steinbeck
0. Biographical Series with Matthew Parris.. (Part 2 of 8)
0. 1: Deacon Blue Singer Ricky Ross Nominates the 'Hillbilly Shakespeare' Hank Williams
0. Biographical Series with Matthew Parris.. (Part 4 of 8)
0. Biographical Series with Matthew Parris.. (Part 3 of 8)
0. Biographical series with Matthew Parris. (Part 2 of 8)
0. 3: Isabella Bird
0. Biographical Series with Matthew Parris.. (Part 7 of 8)
0. 5: John Updike
0. Biographical Series with Matthew Parris (Part 7 of 8)
0. Biographical Series with Matthew Parris.. (Part 8 of 8)
0. Biographical Series with Matthew Parris (Part 8 of 8)
0. Biographical series with Matthew Parris. (Part 8 of 8)
0. 8: Sara Cox Nominates Hip Hop Artist and Rapper Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 3 of 9)
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 3 of 9)
0. 3: Mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy Chooses the Blind Argentinian Writer Borges
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 5 of 9)
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 5 of 9)
0. 4: Mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy Chooses the Blind Argentinian Writer Borges
0. 6: Isy Suttie Chooses Yorkshire-Born Singer Songwriter Jake Thackray
0. 5: Deborah Moggach on Arnold Bennett
0. 7: John Craven on Brunel
0. HG Wells
0. Sir Ernest Shackleton
0. 8: Soprano Emma Kirkby Discusses the Life of English Composer Henry Purcell
0. 7: John Craven Proposes Engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel
0. Marshall McLuhan
0. Clement Attlee
0. Vivekananda
0. Vivekananda: 4 Extra Debut
0. King Hussein
0. Sir Donald Wolfit
0. George Eliot
0. Franz Schubert
0. Viscount Slim
0. 3: Actress Nina Wadia Chooses the Life of Indira Ghandi
0. Alexander the Great
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 4 of 8)
0. 3: Actor Ray Peacock Chooses the Life of Lenny Bruce
0. Louis Armstrong
0. 4: Ray Mears on Rommel
0. 3: Ray Peacock on Lenny Bruce
0. 5: Tom Shakespeare on Gramsci
0. Gracie Allen
0. 6: Labi Siffre on Arthur Ransome
0. 7: Stella Rimington on Dorothy L Sayers
0. Lord Byron
0. Tom Spring
0. 8: Lord Andrew Adonis on Joseph Bazalgette
0. 6: Singer-Songwriter Labi Siffre Chooses Author Arthur Ransome
0. 9: Professor Edith Hall on Lucille Ball
0. 8: Andrew Adonis on Joseph Bazalgette
0. 9: Prof Edith Hall on Lucille Ball
0. James Gillray
0. 1: Emil Zatopek
0. 2: Louisa M Alcott
0. Captain James Cook
0. 4: Roald Dahl
0. 3: Michael Young
0. Scott of the Antartic
0. 3: Lord Young of Dartington
0. Rachmaninov
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 6 of 8)
0. 5: Richard III
0. 6: Guy Burgess
0. 7: Nora Ephron
0. GK Chesterson
0. 8: Risto Ryti
0. The Man in the Iron Mask
0. Flora Sandes
0. Tommy Cooper
0. 1: Learie Constantine
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 2 of 9)
0. Ian Dury
0. 2: Ottoline Morrell
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 2 of 9)
0. Mary Kingsley
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 4 of 9)
0. Tchaikovsky
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 4 of 9)
0. Tom Paine
0. 5: John Clare
0. Nelson
0. 6: Marlon Brando
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 7 of 9)
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 8 of 9)
0. 7: Us Ambassador Matthew Barzun on Jg Winant
0. 8: Pd James
0. Octavia Hill
0. 8: David Blunkett on Louis Braille
0. 9: Pd James
0. Joseph Banks
0. Robert FitzRoy
0. 1: Sir Edmund Hillary
0. 2: Vicky Pryce on Melina Mercouri
0. 3: Elizabeth I
0. Michael Collins
0. 4: George Washington Williams
0. 5: Richard Burton
0. 5: Richard Francis Burton
0. 6: Barbara Castle
0. Genghis Khan
0. 7: Thelonious Monk
0. George Sand
0. 8: Nick Stadlen on Bram Fischer
0. 9: Toyah Willcox on Katharine Hepburn
0. Duke of Wellington
0. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
0. 2: Gertrude Jekyll
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 1 of 8)
0. Biographical series presented by Matthew Parris. (Part 1 of 8)
0. 3: James Baldwin
0. 4: Wangari Maathai
0. 1: Sir Leonard Hutton
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 5 of 8)
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 5 of 8)
0. 6: Molly Weir
0. Biographical series presented by Matthew Parris. (Part 5 of 8)
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 7 of 8)
0. Thomas Cromwell
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 7 of 8)
0. 5: Charles Sargeant Jagger
0. 8: Abraham Lincoln
0. Nevil Shute
0. Andrew Carnegie
0. Sigmund Freud
0. Ella Fitzgerald
0. Robin Hood
0. Johnny Weissmuller
0. Ignaz Semmelweis
0. Leon Trotsky
0. 1: Alfred Hitchcock
0. Nina Simone
0. 2: Lucrezia Borgia
0. WH Auden
0. Biographical series presented by Matthew Parris. (Part 3 of 9)
0. 3: Lenny Bruce
0. 5: Christine Granville
0. 4: Playwright Sudha Bhuchar Nominates Zohra Sehgal
0. 6: Richard the Lionheart
0. 7: Gordon Hamilton-Fairley
0. 9: Thomas Muir
0. Joe Strummer
0. Ernest Hemingway
0. Billie Holiday
0. 1: Gracie Fields
0. 2: Thomas Muir
0. Mata Hari
0. 3: Virginia Woolf
0. 4: Dag Hammarskjold
0. George Bernard Shaw
0. 5: Marshall Rosenberg
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 6 of 9)
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 6 of 9)
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 7 of 9)
0. 6: Maureen Lipman on Cicely Saunders
0. Sir Alec Issigonis
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 8 of 9)
0. 9: Chef Cyrus Todiwala Chooses Dadabhai Naoroji, the Grand Old Man of India, Who in 1892 Became Britain's First Asian MP
0. Biographical series presented by Matthew Parris. (Part 8 of 9)
0. John Cage
0. 8: Aa Gill on Arthur Neville Chamberlain
0. Lord Denning
0. Elizabeth David
0. George Washington
0. Thora Hird
0. George Cruikshank
0. 1: Cary Grant Made His Name From Bristol to Los Angeles
0. Hermann Buhl
0. 2: Sir Ben Kingsley on Elie Wiesel
0. 4: Helen Rollason
0. 5: Cs Lewis
0. 6: Srinivasa Ramanujan
0. Anna Ford nominates singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson
0. Ian Curtis
0. 7: Len Goodman on Lionel Bart
0. 8: Chris Patten Nominates Pope John Xxiii as His Hero
0. Alan Freed
0. Henry VII
0. Field Marshal Slim
0. William Hogarth
0. Luciano Pavarotti
0. Billy Marsh
0. Beachcomber
0. 2: Dame Elizabeth Frink
0. 3: Ermonela Jaho on Mother Teresa
0. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
0. 4: Anton Du Beke on Arnold Palmer
0. 5: Peaches Golding on Shirley Chisholm
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 6 of 8)
0. 6: Steven Knight on Sitting Bull
0. 7: Emma of Normandy
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris.. (Part 9 of 9)
0. Thomas Beecham
0. Carl Jung
0. Roy Jenkins
0. Joe Slovo
0. 1: Maxine Peak on Ellen Wilkinson
0. 2: Stephen Fry on Pg Wodehouse
0. 1: Ellen Wilkinson
0. 3: Norman Lewis
0. Miriam Makeba
0. 4: Mary Anning
0. 3: Sathnam Sanghera on Alexander Gardner
0. 4: Norman Lewis
0. 5: Mary Anning
0. 6: Elsie Widdowson
0. 7: Muhammad Ali
0. 8: Constance Markievicz
0. Hannah Arendt
0. Biographical Series Presented by Matthew Parris (Part 9 of 9)
0. Nero
0. Agustin Barrios Mangore
0. Bill Hamilton
0. Bertolt Brecht
0. 2: Daniel O'connell
0. Matthew Parris Invites Guests to Tell Him About a Person That Has Inspired Them, Made Them Think or Influenced Them in Some Way.. (Part 5 of 9)
0. Matthew Parris Invites Guests to Tell Him About a Person That Has Inspired Them, Made Them Think or Influenced Them in Some Way.. (Part 4 of 9)
0. Arthur Wharton
0. Matthew Parris Presents the Biographical Series.. (Part 6 of 9)
0. 4: Gandhi
0. John Lennon
0. Matthew Parris Presents the Biographical Series (Part 6 of 9)
0. Matthew Parris Presents the Biographical Series.. (Part 7 of 9)
0. Matthew Parris presents the biographical series. (Part 6 of 9)
0. Matthew Parris Presents the Biographical Series (Part 7 of 9)
0. 6: Gisela Stuart on Joseph Chamberlain
0. Matthew Parris Presents the Biographical Series.. (Part 8 of 9)
0. 7: Herodotus
0. 8: Nikolas Tesla
0. Mary Carpenter
0. 8: Nikola Tesla
0. Simone Weil
0. Golda Meir
0. Michel de Montaigne
0. Malcolm McLaren
0. 1: Captain Beefheart
0. Samuel Beckett
0. Sammy Davis Jr
0. 3: Miles Davis
0. 2: Jayaben Desai
0. 5: Richard Feynman
0. 4: Audre Lorde
0. 6: Orson Welles
0. Thomas Edison
0. 8: Hedy Lamarr
0. 7: Mica Paris on Josephine Baker
0. Leonard Bernstein
0. Scott of the Antarctic
0. Harold Pinter
0. Kirsty MacColl
0. 1: David Bowie
0. Emily Dickinson
0. 2: Roald Amundsen
0. Eduardo Paolozzi
0. 3: Js Mill
0. 5: Alison Hargreaves
0. 5: Gene Kelly
0. 7: Cherie Blair on Dame Rose Heilbron
0. 8: Mark Carwardine on Douglas Adams
0. Ludwig Wittgenstein
0. Razia Sultana
0. Producer
0. Tim Smit on Humphrey Jennings, Film Maker
0. Sathnam Sanghera on Alexander Gardner
0. Matt Lucas on Freddie Mercury
0. Josephine Bonaparte
0. Walter Scott
0. Leonard Maguire
0. Juvenal
0. Karel Reisz
0. Edith Wharton
0. Gabriel Gbadamosi on Fela Kuti
0. Konnie Huq on Ada Lovelace
0. Alfred Russel Wallace Nominated by Bill Bailey
0. Henri Matisse
0. Patricia Highsmith
0. The Talented Mr Ripley Author, Patricia Highsmith
0. Maureen Lipman on Cicely Saunders
0. Maureen Lipman on Dame Cicely Saunders
0. Sir Ben Kingsley on Elie Wiesel
0. Maxine Peake on Ellen Wilkinson
0. Charlie Chaplin - Not Just Funny but a Political Rebel According to Mark Steel
0. Margaret Haig Thomas
0. Jim Moir on Captain Beefheart
0. Ayesha Hazarika on Jayaben Desai
0. Mark Carwardine on Douglas Adams
0. Adrian Utley of Portishead on Miles Davis
0. Professor Laura Serrant on Audre Lorde
0. Tej Lalvani on Richard Feynman
0. Simon Callow on Orson Welles
0. Mica Paris on Josephine Baker
0. Hanif Kureishi on David Bowie
0. Simon Evans on JS Mill
0. Patricia Greene on Bess of Hardwick
0. Helen Glover on Alison Hargreaves
0. Gene Kelly
0. Cherie Blair on Dame Rose Heilbron
0. Christina Lamb on Benazir Bhutto
0. Pioneer Girl Laura Ingalls Wilder Nominated by Superfan Samira Ahmed
0. Russell Kane on Evelyn Waugh
0. Tim Smit on Humphrey Jennings
0. Nikesh Shukla on the Undefeated Muslim Wrestler The Great Gama
0. Oliver Sacks Chosen by Fellow Neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan
0. Colin Chapman, Creator of Lotus Cars
0. Andjoa Andoh on Zora Neale Hurston
0. Beatrix Potter
0. Max Miller
0. Robin Day
0. MR James
0. Charles Dickens
0. Elvis Presley
0. Roald Amundsen
0. Frank Sinatra
0. Michelin Brothers
1. Russell Grant on Ivor Novello
1. Evelyn Glennie on Jacqueline du Pre
1. Gary Kemp on EW Godwin
1. Brian Cox on Lindsay Anderson
1. Ravi Shankar
1. Susie Dent on Thomas Mann
1. Noel Coward
1. Mother Teresa
2. Gilbert and Sullivan
2. Charles Bukowski
2. Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Novelist
2. Germaine Greer on Dame Elizabeth Frink
2. Dutch to Doddy
2. Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse
2. Tom Hopkinson, Editor of Picture Post
2. Holly Walsh on BS Johnson
2. Stamford Raffles, Founder of Singapore and London Zoo
3. Prince Alamayu
3. Baroness Oona King on Ida B Wells
3. Alvin Hall Chooses James Baldwin
3. Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf
3. Black and British Pioneer Kenny Lynch
3. Ermonela Jaho on Mother Teresa
3. GBS to Godber
3. Daniel O'Connell
3. Johan Cruyff Picked by Pat Nevin
3. Bobby Seagull on Ravi Shankar
3. Sophie Scott on Hattie Jacques
3. Vivien Leigh
3. Charles M Schulz
4. Joan Littlewood
4. Bob Marley
4. Juan Manuel Fangio
4. Malcolm Lowry, Novelist, Nominated by Ian McMillan
4. David Livingstone
4. Marcus du Sautoy on Jorge Luis Borges
4. Ray Mears on Rommel
4. 27/04/2021
4. Ivor Cutler
4. Anton du Beke on Arnold Palmer
4. Don McCullin on Norman Lewis
4. Nazir Afzal on Gandhi
4. Sir John Timpson Picks Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw
4. 22/08/2023
4. Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows
4. Marie Curie
4. Robert Louis Stevenson
4. Carl Gustav Jung
5. Conductor and composer Ferruccio Busoni
5. Tony Hawks on Marshall Rosenberg
5. Tracy Chevalier on Mary Anning
5. 04/05/2021
5. Jonathan Dimbleby on Harry Hopkins
5. Suzannah Lipscomb on CS Lewis
5. Peaches Golding on Shirley Chisholm
5. Hertha Ayrton
5. Rosalind Franklin Picked by Kate Bingham, Head of the UK Government's Vaccine Taskforce
5. 29/08/2023
5. Ludwig Koch
5. Burt Lancaster
5. Mozart
6. Caroline Criado Perez on Jane Austen
6. Isy Suttie on Jake Thackray
6. 11/05/2021
6. Arlo Parks on Elliott Smith
6. Akram Khan on Srinivasa Ramanujan
6. Steven Knight on Sitting Bull
6. Helen Sharman on Elsie Widdowson
6. Gisela Stuart on Joseph Chamberlain
6. Romy Gill on Poet Amrita Pritam
6. Marvin Gaye
6. Ninette de Valois
6. GK Chesterton
7. Jeremy Deller on the Beatles' Manager Brian Epstein
7. Salvador Dali
7. 18/05/2021
7. Ben Miller on William Hazlitt
7. Len Goodman on Lionel Bart
7. Emma of Normandy
7. Nicholas Stern on Muhammad Ali
7. Justin Marozzi on Herodotus
7. George Lascelles, Seventh Earl of Harewood
7. Lady Eve Balfour
8. Edward Elgar
8. Shirley Collins on the Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax
8. Brendan Barber on John Steinbeck
8. Lisa `Left Eye" Lopes
8. Emma Kirkby on Henry Purcell
8. 25/05/2021
8. The Surprise Lives of Great Lives
8. Rosie Millard on Edward III
8. Chris Patten on Pope John XXIII
8. Peter Williams, Founder of Jack Wills, on Steve Jobs
8. Andrea Catherwood on Constance Markievicz
8. Liza Tarbuck on Nikola Tesla
8. Astrid Lindgren
8. Chi-chi Nwanoku on Jessye Norman
8. Charles Darwin
8. Marty Feldman
9. Kamila Shamshie Chooses Asma Jahangir
9. Frank Turner on Joseph Grimaldi
9. Dadabhai Naoroji
9. Andy Kaufman
9. Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint
9. Ethel Gumm (aka Judy Garland)
9. Bonnie Greer on the Morant Bay Women
9. 26/09/2023
9. Ken Loach on Gerrard Winstanley
9. Ronald Reagan
9. WG Grace

Click to see when Great Lives, season 19 is coming up on UK TV

Database last updated: 30 October - 19:21