Charlie Connelly

30 October 2020

Great European Lives: Henry Dunant

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30 October 2020

Book signings – a long gone sign of our times

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22 October 2020

Ève Curie – the musician who became an exile

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22 October 2020

History at haste.. and heading where in a handcart?

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15 October 2020

The book delving into the hidden depths of Venice

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15 October 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: The life of French sculptor Camille Claudel

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02 October 2020

The first great novel of the staycation era

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01 October 2020

John Keats, Durdle Door and a fittingly romantic departure

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01 October 2020

The tragic truths behind the myths of Edith Piaf

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24 September 2020

The singer with ‘no voice, no looks and no luck’

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23 September 2020

Great European Lives: Anna Magnani

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23 September 2020

How coronavirus curbed the pilgrimage

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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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