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Great LivesBelow is a list of all of the Season 2 Episodes of Great Lives Season 2- 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. Juan Manuel Fangio
- 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
- 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. 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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