Great Lives Episodes Available now
Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu
Biography show where famous guests pick someone they admire or love.
Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris
Anneka Rice picks Jane Morris, wife of William Morris and muse to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Jo Brand picks American blues singer Bessie Smith
The biography show where famous guests pick someone they admire or love.
The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis
Biography show where famous guests pick someone from history they admire or love.
The Roman Emperor Nero
Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe
Biographical show in which famous guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint
Biography series in which famous guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens
The great Miriam Margolyes chooses her hero, Charles Dickens
Mary Portas on Anita Roddick
Mary Portas chooses the founder of The Body Shop Dame Anita Roddick as her Great Life.
Harriet Harman on Maria Callas
Harriet Harman nominates opera star Maria Callas.
