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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

Great Lives: George Eliot

George Eliot

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, George Eliot

Ex-parliamentary standards commissioner Elizabeth Filkin chooses novelist George Eliot.

Ex-parliamentary standards commissioner Elizabeth Filkin chooses the novelist, George Eliot. With Humphrey Carpenter. From 2002.

Former Parliamentary standards watchdog Elizabeth Filkin admires a woman who scandalised Victorian society.

But her ideas about morality have much to teach us. 

Writer Mary Evans is better known as George Eliot. 

Eliot's biographer, Kathryn Hughes gives her expert assessment.

Presented by Humphrey Carpenter.

Producer: Peter Everett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002.

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