Great Lives

BBC

Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

Episodes

Cartoonist Naji al-Ali

Cleopatra picked by Kate Williams

Ade Edmondson on singer Sandy Denny

Tony Garnett picked by Harry Bradbeer

Peter Cook picked by Jon Harvey aka Count Binface

Coco Khan picks Edith Garrud, the jujitsu fighting suffragette

William Gladstone, four-time PM

Alistair McGowan on HE Bates

Beverley Knight on Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock and roll

Daisy Dunn on Marcus Agrippa, ancient Rome's king of cement

Dr Sian Williams nominates Anna Freud

Pianist and broadcaster Keelan Carew nominates Russian composer Nicolai Medtner

Comedian Helen Lederer on Joan Rivers

John Cooper Clarke on Johnny Green, road manager of The Clash

Helen Carr picks Christine de Pizan at the Gloucester history festival

Alex Wheatle, the Bard of Brixton

Spitfire pilot Jeffrey Quill picked by astronaut Tim Peake

Oliver Postgate

Sylvia Plath

Elizabeth Day on Hatshepsut