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Back to SearchSir Ben Kingsley on Elie Wiesel
Actor Sir Ben Kingsley tells Matthew Parris why he regards Elie Wiesel as his great life.
A writer, a Nobel laureate, a holocaust survivor, Elie had …
9 years, 5 months ago
Cary Grant
Comedian and writer Lucy Porter champions Cary Grant as her Great Life finding that, despite his troubled relationships with women off screen, his on…
9 years, 6 months ago
Cyrus Todiwala on Dadabhai Naoroji
Chef Cyrus Todiwala chooses Dadabhai Naoroji, the 'Grand Old Man of India' who in 1892 became Britain's first Asian MP for Finsbury Central.
He late…
9 years, 8 months ago
AA Gill on Arthur Neville Chamberlain
The writer and critic AA Gill nominates Neville Chamberlain as his great life.
But his choice is someone who is regarded as one of the worst Prime Mi…
9 years, 8 months ago
Eliza Carthy on Caroline Norton
Eliza Carthy chooses the life of 19th-century poet and campaigner Caroline Norton to discuss with Matthew Parris.
Following separation from her cont…
9 years, 8 months ago
Maureen Lipman on Dame Cicely Saunders
Actress and writer Maureen Lipman chooses the end-of-life care campaigner, Dame Cicely Saunders.
Dame Cicely Saunders was known as ‘the woman who cha…
9 years, 8 months ago
Tony Hawks on Marshall Rosenberg
Marshall Rosenberg was the stern-faced creator of nonviolent communication, a man who spent his life finding ways to eradicate hate.
Often armed only…
9 years, 9 months ago
Dag Hammarskjold
Sometime around midnight of September 17 1961, a plane approached an airstrip near Ndola in what was then northern Rhodesia.
The plane was a DC6, and…
9 years, 9 months ago
Georgina Godwin on Dag Hammarskjold
Matthew Parris presents a dramatic account of the life and death of Dag Hammarskjold.
9 years, 9 months ago
Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf
Comedian Sara Pascoe champions the life of Virginia Woolf, author of 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'A Room of One's Own', describing her as a sensible feminist.…
9 years, 9 months ago