#great lives

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BBC Bristol was recording an episode of Great Lives for Radio 4 about Douglas Adams. I was able to go and see the recording. Mark Carwadine, who travelled with Adams, and Jem Roberts, writer of Adams biography “The Frood...” were fantastic and I definitely cried.

You can listen to the recording on BBC Sounds

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GA: I'd imagine that he would be very, very hard to work with. I remember there was one particular stage, Kate, he was described on some movie as "the gorilla on the bus"...

KB: You have to remember, also, that he was actually tall, he was actually big, he wasn't like Tom Cruise or Paul Newman who are actually small. He could dominate a room, but also he admitted later in his life that a lot of this, um, stress that he would cause on the set was due to anxiety. Again, if he was trying a new kind of role, if he was pushing the limits of his own talent, he had himself on the line to himself. And this created a lot of anxiety which he then projected as anger onto everyone else.

GA: One of the unusual things I always thought about Burt Lancaster was: you knew he was a tall man, you knew he was strong man, very fit man, but his movements were always kind of—feminine, precise and graceful—almost prissy. Everything he did, if he was lifting a cup of coffee, it would be a big production. You know? He had a very unusual way of handling himself. I suppose you could call it ''grace for such a large man.''

— Gerry Anderson and Kate Buford discussing Burt Lancaster’s life and legacy on Great Lives, 2004.

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‎Great Lives: JRR Tolkien, creator of the Hobbit on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Great Lives, Ep JRR Tolkien, creator of the Hobbit - 7 Dec 2021

Neil Ferguson discusses Tolkien with Malcolm Guite. 8 December 2021.

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Love this story about a young MP John Turner rescuing former Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in the water including mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in Barbados back in 1965

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Great Lives Audiobook

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While Susannah Lipscomb may annoy me as a historian, her episode of Great Lives about C.S.Lewis just makes me smile.

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Happy Birthday, Ludwig Wittgenstein!

Happy Birthday, Ludwig Wittgenstein!

Drawing of Ludwig Wittgenstein by Christiaan Tonnism, pencil on board 1985, Creative Commons

In honor of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s birthday, Apr 26, 1889, let me share four fascinating discussions about the great philosopher’s life and ideas.

The first is by philosopher Stephen West for his podcast Philosophize This!, in which he discusses ‘…the limitations of language as described by Ludwig…

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