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 wealthy Anglo-Irish family and gained her exotic surname from marriage to a Polish count. She was adventurous, flamboyant, committed to woman's rights, court-martialled and nearly shot. Nominating her is Andrea Catherwood, ex-ITN correspondent who made her first documentary for BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Parris.With Lindie Naughton, author of Markievicz - A Most Outrageous Rebel. Producer: Miles WardeFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017.
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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
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Folge vom 19.09.2017Andrea Catherwood on Constance Markievicz
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Folge vom 12.09.2017Nicholas Stern on Muhammad AliNicholas 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 and chooses the life of Muhammad Ali to explore with Matthew Parris and sports journalist and boxing commentator Ronald McIntosh. Not only does Stern admire Ali's prowess in the ring, but more so his fearless stance against the Vietnam War which cost him dearly both personally and professionally.Ali's humanitarian work in later life has also been a huge source of inspiration to him.Producer: Maggie AyreFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017.
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Folge vom 05.09.2017Helen Sharman on Elsie WiddowsonHow 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. Matthew Parris hears why Helen Sharman, the first Briton to go into space, thinks Widdowson deserves her nomination. They are joined by Elsie's friend and biographer Margaret Ashwell, President for the Association for Nutrition.You can download the podcast to hear an extended version of the broadcast programmeProducer: Maggie Ayre.First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017.
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Folge vom 29.08.2017Tracy Chevalier on Mary AnningNovelist 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 them to collectors in the early 1800s. Her remarkable finds came before Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and she believed them at first to be giant crocodiles, but as scientists began flocking to Lyme Regis to buy her specimens, she started to educate herself in geology, becoming an authority on fossils.However, as with many of the subjects of Great Lives, she was never fully credited for her efforts and faded from public consciousness after her death.With Hugh Torrens, Emeritus Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Keele. Producer: Maggie AyreFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017.