Will Gregory on Flann O'Brien
Goldfrapp's Will Gregory is centre-stage at the Colston Hall in Bristol to tell Matthew Parris why he feels a kinship with Flann O'Brien.The Irish writer's books 'At Swim-Two-Birds' and 'The Third Pol...
5 Dec 201731min
Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint
City boss Dame Helena Morrissey champions the life of the pioneer of women's cricket.Baroness Heyhoe Flint ruffled feathers and shook up a male-dominated sport.Dame Helena makes the case for why this ...
26 Sep 201727min
Andrea Catherwood on Constance Markievicz
Constance Markievicz led an amazing life - a leading figure during the Easter Rising of 1916, she was the first woman elected to Parliament though she never took her seat.Markievicz was born into a we...
19 Sep 201728min
Nicholas Stern on Muhammad Ali
Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, among other positions, and former Chief Economist at the World Bank. He is also a massive boxing fan...
12 Sep 201733min
Helen Sharman on Elsie Widdowson
How many people realise the impact Elsie Widdowson had on the way we view nutrition? She was a food scientist who devoted her life to improving the diets of adults and children in Britain and abroad. ...
5 Sep 201738min
Tracy Chevalier on Mary Anning
Novelist Tracy Chevalier discusses the life of Mary Anning with Matthew Parris.Mary was a working class woman from Lyme Regis who discovered full dinosaur skeletons on Dorset's Jurassic Coast and sold...
29 Aug 201729min
Don McCullin on Norman Lewis
In 1968 Norman Lewis wrote an article called Genocide in Brazil. The photographs that accompanied it were by Don McCullin. Lewis later said that this one piece of journalism was the great achievement ...
22 Aug 201727min
Maxine Peake on Ellen Wilkinson
Actress Maxine Peake nominates her working class hero, Ellen Wilkinson, as a great life. Ellen is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of British radical left politics. She joi...
9 Aug 201727min
