Joan Bakewell Humphrey Carpenter Francine Stock Matthew Parris
Produced by
Chris Ledgard
Original release
24 August 2001
No. of series
44
No. of episodes
282
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Great Lives is a BBC Radio 4 biography series, produced in Bristol. It has been presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and currently (since April 2006) Matthew Parris. A distinguished guest is asked to nominate the person they feel is truly deserving of the title "Great Life". The presenter and a recognised expert (a biographer, family member or fellow practitioner) are on hand to discuss the life. The programmes are 28 minutes long, originally broadcast on Fridays at 23:00, more recently at 16:30 on Tuesday with a repeat at 23:00 on Friday.
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Curious, Offbeat Collection of Lives Forgotten". The New Yorker. Rocca, Mo (November 5, 2019). Mobituaries: GreatLives Worth Reliving. Simon and Schuster...
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the Mountain (1916) Burton the Flying Corps (1916) Little Stories of GreatLives (1916) Tom Willoughby's Scouts (1919) Bright Ideas (1920) The Blue Raider...
radio personalities in Great Britain to play the group's music on-air. In an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme GreatLives broadcast in January 2024...
Parris, Matthew (23 September 2014). "Joseph Bazalgette". BBC Sounds. GreatLives. BBC. Retrieved 29 February 2024. Ackroyd, Peter (2000). London the biography...
Humanist Tradition in the West (1985), Has History a Future? (1977), GreatLives of the Twentieth Century (1989), Meeting Teachers' Management Needs (1988)...
Hitchens 2010, p. 143 Parris, Matthew (8 August 2006). "GreatLives Leon Trotsky". GreatLives. Retrieved 28 August 2010. Robinson, Peter (3 August 2009)...
"Review: GreatGreatGreat is a cautionary tale about craving the almighty ‘more’". The Globe and Mail, October 6, 2017. "GreatGreatGreatlives up to two-thirds...
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