Great Lives

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

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Great Lives: Cary Grant

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Cary Grant

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Lucy Porter, the comedian and writer, champions Cary Grant as her Great Life

Comedian Lucy Porter chooses an actor and Hollywood icon born in Bristol, Cary Grant. With Matthew Parris. From 2016.

Comedian and writer Lucy Porter champions Cary Grant as her Great Life finding that, despite his troubled relationships with women off screen, his on screen charm and generosity towards his female co-stars redeems him.  

With Grant's biographer, Geoffrey Wansell, who discusses the troubled screen icon's humble beginnings in Bristol and the following glamour and wealth of Los Angeles.

Presenter: Matthew Parris 

Producer: Maggie Ayre

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016.

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