Great Lives

Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics,

How many people realise the impact Elsie Widdowson had on the way we view nutrition? She was a food

Novelist Tracy Chevalier discusses the life of Mary Anning with Matthew Parris.Mary was a working cl

In 1968 Norman Lewis wrote an article called Genocide in Brazil. The photographs that accompanied it

Actress Maxine Peake nominates her working class hero, Ellen Wilkinson, as a great life. Ellen is re

Stephen Fry nominates his hero PG Wodehouse, a writer who he says simply cheers him up like no one e

Peter Williams - founder of British retail chain, Jack Wills - nominates Steve Jobs as his great lif

There were so many hoaxes in Andy Kaufman's brief career that for years his fans believed that he wa

Twice Queen of England and mother of two kings, but have you heard of Emma of Normandy? Doyenne of W

For Steven Knight, the screen writer and director of ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Taboo’, it was easy to no

American-born Peaches Golding OBE - Bristol's former Lord Lieutenant and first black female High Sh

Strictly Come Dancing's Anton Du Beke chooses the golf legend Arnold Palmer as his great life. Along

Since her death in 1997, it's been fashionable in some quarters to decry the work of Mother Teresa a

Germaine Greer nominates sculptor Dame Elizabeth FrinkShe was best known for striking sculptures ran

Gary Kemp, songwriter and guitarist with hit 1980s band Spandau Ballet, chooses the architect and de

Chris Patten, Lord Patten of Barnes, nominates a great life who was born a peasant and became a Pope

Len Goodman's great life was one of the biggest figures in creating British musicals and pop music i

In 1914, a self-taught Mathematics student named Ramanujan left India for Trinity College Cambridge.

Step though the wardrobe - as historian Suzannah Lipscomb selects the creator of the Narnia Chronicl

Ruth Holdaway - the former Chief Executive of Women in Sport - picks pioneering sports broadcaster H