Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

461 - Cartoonist Naji al-Ali

Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

461 - Cartoonist Naji al-Ali

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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

Épisodes

mar., 02 juin 2026

lun., 01 juin 2026

mar., 19 mai 2026

lun., 11 mai 2026

lun., 02 mars 2026

lun., 23 févr. 2026

lun., 16 févr. 2026

mar., 10 févr. 2026

mer., 28 janv. 2026

lun., 19 janv. 2026

lun., 12 janv. 2026

lun., 03 nov. 2025

lun., 27 oct. 2025

lun., 20 oct. 2025

lun., 13 oct. 2025

lun., 06 oct. 2025

lun., 29 sept. 2025

lun., 22 sept. 2025

lun., 15 sept. 2025

lun., 08 sept. 2025

lun., 30 juin 2025

lun., 23 juin 2025

lun., 16 juin 2025

lun., 09 juin 2025

lun., 02 juin 2025

lun., 26 mai 2025

lun., 19 mai 2025

lun., 12 mai 2025

lun., 05 mai 2025

mar., 29 avr. 2025

mer., 09 avr. 2025

lun., 03 mars 2025

lun., 24 févr. 2025

lun., 17 févr. 2025

lun., 10 févr. 2025

lun., 03 févr. 2025

lun., 27 janv. 2025

lun., 20 janv. 2025

lun., 13 janv. 2025

lun., 06 janv. 2025

lun., 23 sept. 2024

lun., 16 sept. 2024

lun., 02 sept. 2024

Great Lives

Épisodes

Cartoonist Naji al-Ali

Cleopatra picked by Kate Williams

Ade Edmondson on singer Sandy Denny

Tony Garnett picked by Harry Bradbeer

Peter Cook picked by Jon Harvey aka Count Binface

Coco Khan picks Edith Garrud, the jujitsu fighting suffragette

William Gladstone, four-time PM

Alistair McGowan on HE Bates

Beverley Knight on Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock and roll

Daisy Dunn on Marcus Agrippa, ancient Rome's king of cement

Dr Sian Williams nominates Anna Freud

Pianist and broadcaster Keelan Carew nominates Russian composer Nicolai Medtner

Comedian Helen Lederer on Joan Rivers

John Cooper Clarke on Johnny Green, road manager of The Clash

Helen Carr picks Christine de Pizan at the Gloucester history festival

Alex Wheatle, the Bard of Brixton

Spitfire pilot Jeffrey Quill picked by astronaut Tim Peake

Oliver Postgate

Sylvia Plath

Elizabeth Day on Hatshepsut

Comedian Stewart Lee on Derek Bailey

Jock Stein, first British football manager to win the European Cup

Benjamin Franklin

Miles Jupp on JL Carr, author of A Month in the Country

Helen Castor on Richard II

DJ Deb Grant on John Prine

Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana

Emily Williamson, co-founder of the RSPB

Tina Turner

Raymond Blanc on Professor Nicholas Kurti

Dervla Murphy, author of the classic Full Tilt

Ned Ludd mythical leader of the Luddites

Richey Edwards of The Manic Street Preachers

Benny Hill

Maggi Hambling picks muse and lover Henrietta Moraes

Harriet Harman on Maria Callas

Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows

Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison

Jake Arnott on John Gay

Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy

A N Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jessica Fostekew on Boudica

Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs

Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott

Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn

Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore

Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau

Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu

Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris

The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis