Talk:Great Lives/Archive 1

Quotes
The extensive quoting from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/greatlives/index_series10.shtml should probably be attributed. Tim Ivorson 2007-09-13 08:41, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

More work to be done
The BBC web pages have information on most of the earlier series, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxsb/episodes - plenty of work to be done in transcribing the names, making links, disambiguating when needed, etc. PamD (talk) 07:45, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Should this exist?
I don't see this as an encyclopedic article, it's just been copied and pasted from the bbc website and contains details of 2 year old programmes. delete it? 86.0.184.85 (talk) 00:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

The old program page is no longer being updated by the BBC and ends with series 17 in February 2009. Information on later series is available on the BBC website, but not in a convenient overview, which is provided by this article. The contents has been updated to contain past programs details of series 18 to 21 as well as the first 3 episodes of the current series 22. 86.185.213.155 (talk) 13:27, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * The addition of (carefully disambiguated) links to WP articles for the Great Lives and their nominators makes this a useful addition to WP. PamD (talk) 07:46, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Page needs updating
I have a feeling that there is a series of the programme being broadcast in May 2011. This implies that the article will require updating, as it ends rather abruptly with details of the programme for January 2011. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:09, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

I have just gone to this website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0100pzg

which tells us that the programme is currently running a series - for example, Lynn Truss has championed Lewis Carroll and Caroline Lucas has championed Petra Kelly. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:15, 19 May 2011 (UTC)


 * First reaction is to say WP:SOFIXIT - but I've taken the hint and added series 24. Thanks for the reminder! PamD (talk) 07:47, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Another update needed
The programme has been broadcast in August 2011 - Daisy Goodwin has championed William Shakespeare  - so again, time for an update has arrived. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:52, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

OK, so no one one else updated it, so I have done it myself now! ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:22, 6 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks - but another time, please try and follow the established pattern of headings and entries. I've added series 25 to date. Pam  D  22:22, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Well, as you seem more skilful about getting format correct than me, I shall leave it to you to the update for September 20 2011. However, I would certainly like to see it updated - as it is Cerys Matthews championing Hildegard of Bingen. I am interested in Hildegard of Bingen so I shall be appreciative if there is an update! Many thanks, ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:25, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

There has now been a footballer who nominated Gerald Durrell. I do not remember who the footballer was, but those who can may wish to keep this page up-to-date. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:23, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * "Remembering" is not the way to update the article: check the information on the BBC website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxsb, which is updated after each broadcast. Pam  D  07:42, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

I have now looked in my copy of the Radio Times and it pointed out that it was Graeme le Saux who nominated Gerald Durrell. The programme was quite interesting as it pointed out how it was good to have a former footballer nominating some one who was not connected with football. It also pointed out how Gerald Durrell was more famous now than his brother Lawrence Durrell. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:24, 29 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Nice work updating the article, thanks - it's not that difficult, as you've found! Pam  D  23:31, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks for your comment - having the "Copy and paste" function available on computers does make things easier. I am willing to bet that quite a lot of Wikipedia edits get made that way! Thank you again for your feedback, ACEOREVIVED (talk) 09:21, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Now complete (probably)
I've added all the missing programmes that I could find. The only programmes I might have missed are any more "Specials" like the Hogmanay one, which I found by chance. Searching every copy of the RT on the off-chance of finding a sporadic Special would be a much longer task than I feel up to undertaking, for now at least.

You'll have noticed the oddity of "Series 0". The programme listings do not indicate a series number, so I've been counting backwards from the later ones, where the series number is shown on the programme's website, and the result is as you see.

Hope that helps. Charivari (talk) 11:13, 24 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Nice work. Now we perhaps need to get rid of some of the red links - anyone featured on the programme in either role is surely "notable" in WP terms! I made a stub for Nick Danziger this morning - turns out there were two previous deleted versions, a few years back, and an editor has a draft of a substantial article in their userspace. Pam  D  16:49, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
 * And just created Camilla Wright. Pam  D  17:23, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

31 Jan 2012
Why was my link removed? I did hear the programme broadcast on January 31, and if one goes to the Radio Four website, one can see that it was indeed of the person I said it was on. 21:12, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, I hope that it is in there now in the correct format - just click on the website of BBC Radio Four and you will see that the information I put in there is now accurate. Please can you be gracious enough not to call things vandalism which are not vandalism - just bear in mind that it might be hard for people to use laptops when they have been away from their laptops a few days! ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:18, 31 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Apologies- my finger slipped or something. I think the diff looked as if the commented template had disappeared and I was trying to copy it to replace it, I remember some sort of a finger-slip muddle and then I saw that it hadn't been deleted anyway or so I thought. Must have accidentally left my finger hovering over "Rollback Vandal" (on my laptop the top matter of the article takes a while to settle into place, and sometimes jumps so that my cursor isn't pointing where I'm intending - could have been one of those). Sorry about that. And well done for keeping the series up to date.  Pam  D  23:50, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

A new series
A new series of this programme began on July 31 2012, when some one nominated Henry Cooper - so this will need another update. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:41, 2 August 2012 (UTC)