Frederick the Great
King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786
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| April 2025 |
Great Lives
Great Lives radio series begins its 66th series, featuring a diverse range of notable personalities discussed by guest presenters, including topics such as artists, musicians, comedians, and historical figures.
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| February 2025 |
Great Lives
End of Series 65 of Great Lives, which included episodes featuring notable figures such as Doug Allan discussing Jacques Cousteau, Hannah Critchlow on Colin Blakemore, and Lauren Cuthbertson exploring Margot Fonteyn's life.
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| December 2024 |
Great Lives
Start of Series 65 of Great Lives, featuring Ekow Eshun discussing Justin Fashanu, the first professional footballer to be openly gay, with Matthew Parris as presenter.
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| September 2024 |
Great Lives
Jo Brand presents an episode about Bessie Smith, blues singer
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| September 2024 |
Great Lives
Anneka Rice discusses Jane Morris, model and muse, in the Great Lives programme
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| August 2024 |
Great Lives
Julien Temple profiles Christopher Marlowe during the Great Lives programme
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| August 2024 |
Great Lives
Conn Iggulden discusses the life of Nero, Roman Emperor, in the Great Lives series
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| August 2024 |
Great Lives
Zing Tsjeng explores the life of Hilma af Klint in the Great Lives series
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| August 2024 |
Great Lives
Miriam Margolyes discusses Charles Dickens during the Great Lives programme with Matthew Parris as the presenter
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| August 2024 |
Great Lives
Henry Marsh explores the life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis, physician and scientist
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| May 2024 |
Great Lives
Conclusion of Series 63 of Great Lives, which included episodes about E. Nesbit, Frank Whittle, Queen Emma, Lady Rachel MacRobert, and Maria Callas among other notable figures.
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| April 2024 |
Great Lives
Start of Series 63 of Great Lives radio programme, featuring discussions about notable individuals like Gerard Hoffnung, Sir Bruce Forsyth, and Antoni Gaudí.
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| January 2024 |
Great Lives
Concluded the 62nd series of Great Lives radio programme, featuring discussions about Thomas Jefferson and Harry Belafonte among other notable personalities.
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| December 2023 |
Great Lives
Continued as part of Great Lives radio programme series 62, with discussions about various notable figures including Diana Barnato Walker and JG Ballard.
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| November 2023 |
Great Lives
Featured in Great Lives radio programme series 62, discussing Mohammad Mossadegh's life and legacy, with Matthew Parris as the presenter.
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| September 2023 |
Great Lives
Great Lives programme Series 61 concludes in September, highlighting biographical discussions of diverse personalities including Lady Eve Balfour, Gerrard Winstanley, and Ludwig Koch
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| June 2023 |
Great Lives
Great Lives programme Series 61 begins, featuring episodes on notable figures such as Tony Benn, Stamford Raffles, Donella Meadows, and Jessye Norman, among others
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| May 2023 |
Great Lives
Great Lives programme series 60 concludes, having explored the lives of significant historical and contemporary individuals across diverse fields.
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| April 2023 |
Great Lives
Great Lives programme series 60 begins, featuring discussions about notable figures including Arthur Ashe, Matthew Henson, Kofi Annan, and others, presented by various broadcasters and personalities.
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| January 2023 |
Great Lives
Great Lives radio programme continues Series 59, with episodes exploring the lives of Olivia Laing, Christopher Lloyd, Bob Harris, Matt Busby, Roger Deakin, Adjoa Andoh, and Zora Neale Hurston.
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| December 2022 |
Great Lives
Great Lives radio programme begins Series 59, featuring episodes discussing notable personalities including Olia Hercules, Alla Horska, Noddy Holder, Chuck Berry, Minette Batters, Henry Plumb, Nick Hayes, Patrick Barkham, Chris McCausland, Kurt Cobain, and others.
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| September 2022 |
Great Lives
Conclusion of Series 58 of Great Lives programme, which included episodes about the women of the Morant Bay rebellion
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| May 2022 |
Great Lives
Start of Series 58 of Great Lives programme, featuring discussions about notable figures including Johan Cruyff, BS Johnson, Ravi Shankar, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Rosalind Franklin, Amrita Pritam, George Lascelles, and Astrid Lindgren
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| May 2022 |
Great Lives
Series 57 of Great Lives radio programme concluded, having explored the lives of various influential figures from different fields including film, journalism, television, literature, music, politics, performance, and entertainment.
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| April 2022 |
Great Lives
Series 57 of Great Lives radio programme began, featuring a diverse range of notable individuals discussed by guest presenters, including topics such as Lindsay Anderson, Tom Hopkinson, Kaye Webb, Ira Aldridge, Gil Scott-Heron, Tony Wilson, Joan Rhodes, and Judy Garland.
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| January 2022 |
Great Lives
Great Lives programme continues Series 56, exploring biographies of historical and contemporary personalities
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| December 2021 |
Great Lives
Great Lives programme begins Series 56, featuring episodes on notable figures including J.R.R. Tolkien, Johnny Ramone, Jeanne Baret, Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan, William Lever, Lady Rhondda, Mrinalini Sarabhai, and Spike Milligan
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| September 2021 |
Great Lives
Conclusion of Series 55 of Great Lives radio programme, covering discussions about figures including Hans Christian Andersen, Yehudi Menuhin, Althea Gibson, Frantz Fanon, Josiah Wedgwood, Ewan MacColl, Catherine of Siena, Hypatia, and James Baldwin
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| August 2021 |
Great Lives
Start of Series 55 of Great Lives radio programme, featuring a series of notable biographical discussions with various guests discussing influential historical figures
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| June 2021 |
Great Lives
Series 54 of Great Lives concludes, having featured episodes exploring the lives of various notable figures such as Ivor Cutler, Harry Hopkins, Elliott Smith, and William Hazlitt.
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| April 2021 |
Great Lives
First episode of Series 54 of Great Lives radio programme begins, featuring discussions about notable personalities including Patricia Highsmith, Chinua Achebe, and Kenny Lynch.
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| January 2021 |
Great Lives
Great Lives radio programme continues Series 53, with additional episodes exploring the lives of prominent figures
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| 2020 |
Friedrich
15th Friedrich World Championship planned but cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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| December 2020 |
Great Lives
Great Lives radio programme begins Series 53, featuring episodes discussing notable individuals such as Katherine Parr, Frank Ramsey, Hugh Dowding, Jessica Mitford, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Delia Derbyshire, and Cesar Chavez
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| September 2020 |
Great Lives
Series 52 of Great Lives radio programme concludes, having explored the lives of diverse personalities including Donna Summer, Kenneth Williams, and John Maynard Keynes.
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| August 2020 |
Great Lives
Series 52 of Great Lives radio programme begins, featuring episodes on notable historical figures such as Benito Mussolini, Frida Kahlo, and Ernest Bevin.
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| April 2020 |
Great Lives
Great Lives radio programme begins Series 51, featuring episodes about notable figures including Jim Morrison, Tove Jansson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maya Angelou, Victoria Wood, Myrna Loy, Billy Bremner, Sybille Bedford, and Doris Day.
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| January 2020 |
Great Lives
Series 50 of 'Great Lives' continues, highlighting diverse subjects including William Brown, Lee Miller, Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, Enid Blyton, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charlie Parker, Kurt Vonnegut, and Toni Morrison.
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| December 2019 |
Great Lives
BBC Radio 4's 'Great Lives' programme begins Series 50, featuring notable personalities discussing influential figures across various fields.
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| September 2019 |
Great Lives
Conclusion of Series 49 of the 'Great Lives' radio programme, which explored lives of diverse individuals including musicians, politicians, educators, and artists.
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| September 6 2019 |
Friedrich
14th Friedrich World Championship won by John McCullough from the UK, playing as Prussia.
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| July 2019 |
Great Lives
Start of Series 49 of the 'Great Lives' radio programme, featuring various guests discussing notable historical figures.
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| April 2019 |
Great Lives
BBC Radio 4's Great Lives programme began Series 48, featuring episodes about notable historical figures nominated by guest speakers, including Emma Hamilton, Catherine de' Medici, Aethelflaed, Malcolm Lowry, Ferruccio Busoni, Jane Austen, Brian Epstein, Alan Lomax, and Asma Jahangir.
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| January 2019 |
Great Lives
Great Lives radio programme series 47 continues, with episodes exploring the lives of various notable figures presented by different guests and comedians.
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| December 2018 |
Great Lives
Great Lives radio programme series 47 begins, featuring discussions about notable individuals including Laura Ingalls Wilder, Evelyn Waugh, Humphrey Jennings, Charlie Chaplin, Ghulam Mohammad, Oliver Sacks, Colin Chapman, and Freddie Mercury.
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| September 7 2018 |
Friedrich
13th Friedrich World Championship won by Anton Telle from Germany, playing as Prussia, securing his second title 11 years after his first win.
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| July 2018 |
Great Lives
Series 46 of Great Lives podcast/radio programme begins, featuring discussions about notable figures including David Bowie, Roald Amundsen, John Stuart Mill, Gene Kelly, Rose Heilbron, Douglas Adams, and Benazir Bhutto, with various presenters and guest nominators.
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| April 2018 |
Great Lives
Series 45 of 'Great Lives' radio programme begins, featuring discussions about notable figures including Captain Beefheart, Jayaben Desai, Miles Davis, Audre Lorde, Richard Feynman, Orson Welles, Josephine Baker, Hedy Lamarr, and Catherine the Great.
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| January 2018 |
Great Lives
Continuation of Series 44 of Great Lives radio programme, concluding the series with episodes featuring discussions about notable historical figures.
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| December 2017 |
Great Lives
Start of Series 44 of Great Lives radio programme featuring notable biographical discussions, including episodes about Flann O'Brien, Marcel Duchamp, Daniel O'Connell, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Chamberlain, Herodotus, and Nikola Tesla.
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