Great Lives

"Postgate's work is deep inside me and I think that's true for so many of my generation...... more

Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence, chooses the writer Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was a pr... more

"One of the things that she claimed was that her mother had been impregnated by the sun go... more

"The area I mostly work in is generally known as free - the free music area. And free is o... more

Jock Stein, first British football manager to win the European Cup, picked by composer Sir... more

Matthew Parris heads to the house where Benjamin Franklin lived for almost 17 years to mee... more

"I find his novels extraordinarily beautiful .. and they're an excellent length." Miles Ju... more

Today's great life is possibly more famous as a Shakespearean character - King Richard II ... more

DJ Deb Grant picks US mailman turned country-folk singer John Prine, whose beautiful songs... more

Seretse Khama was born in 1921 in Bechuanaland when it was still a British Protectorate. I... more

For over a hundred years no one thought too much about the origins of the RSPB, but among ... more