Matthew Parris is joined by Michael Horovitz who nominates fellow poet and founder of the 'Beat Generation', Allen Ginsberg, as his Great Life. Ginsberg's friend and biographer Barry Miles provides biographical detail of this colourful and controversial writer, who through his battle for free expression inspired American counter culture.Producer: Melvin RickarbyFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.
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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
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Folge vom 17.12.2013Michael Horovitz on Allen Ginsberg
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Folge vom 10.12.2013Ricky Ross on Hank WilliamsThe life of the 'Hillbilly Shakespeare' Hank Williams is the choice of Deacon Blue singer Ricky Ross. Williams is regarded as being the prototype rock star and continues to be hugely influential on musicians today despite a short recording career of just six years before he died at the age of 29. Matthew Parris presents. With Nick Barraclough as the expert witness. Producer: Maggie AyreFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.
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Folge vom 27.11.2013Nina SimoneThe chanteuse, pianist, composer and civil rights activist Nina Simone is the choice of another female musician who has made a career of defying convention; Joanna Macgregor. Presented by Matthew Parris.
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Folge vom 02.10.2013Nancy MitfordGrace Dent nominates Nancy Mitford for her wit, and for the way in which she showed women that it was possible to live your life fully and unconventionally. Nancy Mitford's greatest success came with the novels The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949). Matthew Parris asks what else it is about Nancy that so inspires Grace, with the aid of Mitford biographer Lisa Hilton.Grace Dent is a TV and restaurant critic, newspaper columnist, author, and broadcaster.Producer Beth O'DeaFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2013.