Charlie Connelly

10 September 2020

The life and last days Georgi Markov

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03 September 2020

Great European Lives: Victoria Fyodorova

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27 August 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: Kazimierz Deyna

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13 August 2020

The greatest characters in European literature

CHARLIE CONNELLY comes up with the first half of his rundown of the top 20.

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13 August 2020

Great European Lives: Soviet and Russian singer songwriter Viktor Tsoi

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06 August 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: The life of Klaus Nomi

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30 July 2020

Great European Lives: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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26 July 2020

Great European Lives: Maria Szymanowska – the pioneering Polish pianist

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26 July 2020

The Stasi spy who stayed in the cold

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18 July 2020

The life of Nobel Prize winning writer Heinrich Boll

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08 July 2020

Jean Moulin: The unlikely national hero who united France’s Nazi resistance

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25 June 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: Bud Spencer – Europe’s spaghetti western hero

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19 June 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: Iconic film-maker Jacqueline Audry

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14 June 2020

The remarkable story of Ottavio Bottecchia – first Italian to win the Tour de France

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07 June 2020

Great European Lives: Joseph Bologne, Chavalier de Saint-Georges

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07 June 2020

The death of Charles Dickens and its curious aftermath

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28 May 2020

Great Lives: Rocío Jurado

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23 May 2020

Giovanni Falcone: the Italian judge who brought the mafia to justice

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16 May 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: László Kubala

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30 April 2020

Walking is what I miss most in lockdown.. by a distance

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30 April 2020

Great European Lives: Sergio Leone

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29 April 2020

How Europe helped to inspire Shakespeare

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25 April 2020

Great European Lives: Marie Tussaud

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19 April 2020

The book to transport you during lockdown

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17 April 2020

Great European Lives: French feminist and writer Simone de Beauvoir

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08 April 2020

Conrad Veidt: The unique life of one of the 20th centuries most memorable film villains

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22 March 2020

The life and death of Johan Cruyff

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21 March 2020

The seaside saga as sun sets on an era

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15 March 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: Tamara de Lempicka

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11 March 2020

How the Spanish flu is a reminder of mankind’s vulnerability

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08 March 2020

The aviation pioneer with the balloon sized ego

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29 February 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: André Previn

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