Great Lives is a History Documentary programme.

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Great Lives: GBS to Godber

Series 65, episode 3

From George Bernard Shaw to Richard Beckinsale - Matthew Parris on the rows, revelations and rank incompetence behind 400 editions of Great Lives. Deep in the summer of 2001, a new programme tiptoed out onto Radio 4. The concept