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Great Lives

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Humphrey Carpenter invites famous people to nominate great lives for discussion. This week, author and screenwriter Frederic Raphael selects a controversial figure - part-man, part-myth - Alexanderthe Great. With the help of classical historian, Professor Tony Spawforth , a very modern Alexanderthe Great emerges: a leader who travelled with his own "press corps" of historians while conquering the known world. Producer Mark Smalley

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Humphrey Carpenter
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Frederic Raphael
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Alexanderthe Great.
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Professor Tony Spawforth
Producer:
Mark Smalley
Source: Radio Times

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