Compact Biographies

Compact Biographies

Each week, we aim to bring you interesting information about interesting people in the form of short, compact biographies, which can be read on our website or listened to as a podcast episode. We hope you enjoy them.

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320 episodes

  1. Kim Philby 21:07
  2. Alfred the Great 19:50
  3. Robert Noyce 22:18
  4. Martin Luther 23:26
  5. Virginia Woolf 23:20
  6. Steve Irwin 19:14
  7. Frida Kahlo 23:39
  8. Charlemagne 24:00
  9. Lord Byron 25:11
  10. Whitney Houston 22:00
  11. Tony Stark 20:52
  12. Ellen Ripley 21:08
  13. Hannibal Lecter 22:00
  14. Michael Corleone 21:13
  15. Victor Frankenstein 21:53
  16. Hermione Granger 21:41
  17. Indiana Jones 21:35
  18. Diana Prince 20:39
  19. Katniss Everdeen 20:34
  20. Jay Gatsby 20:22
  21. Heath Ledger 24:21
  22. Aretha Franklin 25:27
  23. Dame Maggie Smith 22:13
  24. Steve Jobs 25:18
  25. Pelé 22:50
  26. John Hughes 22:33
  27. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 19:47
  28. Enzo Ferrari 22:56
  29. Duke Ellington 21:13
  30. Arthur Ashe 24:47
  31. Leif Erikson 20:09
  32. Jim Lovell 17:31
  33. Richard Feynman 20:42
  34. Thurgood Marshall 21:33
  35. Alfred Russel Wallace 20:39
  36. Sidney Poitier 21:49
  37. Mary Anning 22:47
  38. Scott Joplin 21:59
  39. Mary Wollstonecraft 21:36
  40. Tina Turner 20:44
  41. Dorothy Hodgkin 20:57
  42. Captain Kidd 19:09
  43. Alan Rickman 20:25
  44. Ramanujan 21:54
  45. Brigitte Bardot 21:34
  46. Sally Ride 14:38
  47. Archbishop Desmond Tutu 15:19
  48. Jane Goodall 19:18
  49. The Black Prince 10:48
  50. Alan Turing 11:04