Great Lives Folgen

Professor of Nursing, Laura Serrant, chooses the life of the black, gay poet and activist Audre Lorde who still inspires the women's movement today. She tells Matthew Parris why Audre has meant so much to her both personally and professionally. Professor Akwugo Emejulu of Warwick University is the expert witness.Presented by Matthew Parris. Producer: Maggie AyreFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2018.

**Visionary jazz musician Miles Davis joins BBC Radio 4 Extra's 100 Club – born 26th May 1926. He died in 1991 aged 65***Miles Davis - trumpeter, composer, bandleader - is championed by Adrian Utley of Portishead."He's always been really important in my life, right from early on when my dad used to play him. It was part of the atmosphere of our house."From the early years with Charlie Parker and via Kind of Blue to playing in front of 600,000 hippies on the Isle of Wight, Miles Davis was a musician who never stood still. "Always listen for what you can leave out," he used to say.Portishead's seminal 1990s album Dummy seems to have taken advice from the man. As Adrian Utley explains to presenter Matthew Parris: "The darkness and the sense of space is the thing that I have assimilated from Miles ... he's in my DNA."With Richard Williams, author of The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music.Producer: Miles WardeFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2018.

Comedian, actor and artist Jim Moir aka Vic Reeves chooses the life of Don van Vliet.He was the Dadesque musician and painter Captain Beefheart who has continued to influence many musicians since the 1960s. Jim joins Matthew Parris to discuss the bizarre and complex persona developed by the Californian eccentric who died from MS in 2010.With Beefheart's biographer, Mike Barnes.Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. Producer: Maggie AyreFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2018.