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Matthew Bannister on Mike Lynch, who was one of the UK’s most successful tech entrepreneurs.
Nell McCafferty, the Irish journalist and feminist campaigner who took part in the “contraceptive train” protest in 1971.
Ruth Colvin, who founded the American “Literacy Volunteers” organisation to help adults who couldn’t read or write
Sven-Göran Eriksson, the Swedish born football manager who became the first non-British coach of the England football team.
Interviewee: Suranga Chandratillake
Interviewee: David Davis
Interviewee: Susan McKay
Interviewee: Judy Cheatham
Interviewee: Henry Winter
Producers: Ben Mitchell and Ed Prendeville
Archive:
Contraceptives From Belfast, RTE, 1971; Witness, BBC News, 03/12/2016; Ruth Colvin, All things considered, NPR, 10/12/2006; Ruth Colvin, Onondaga Historical Association, YouTube Upload, 07/07/2020; Ruth Colvin, Onondaga Historical Association, YouTube Upload, 01/12/2016; The Real Sven-Goran Eriksson, BBC Radio 5Live; Kammy & Ben's Proper Football Podcast, BBC, 18/11/2022; BBC News at Ten; 20/11/2012; PM, BBC Radio 4, 01/08/24; The Report, BBC Radio 4, 27/12/12
Matthew Bannister on
Lord Prescott, the working-class lad who became Deputy Prime Minister.
Stephanie Collie, whose costume designs for “Peaky Blinders” and “Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” inspired street fashion.
Dame Janet “Jinty” Nelson, the leading mediaeval historian who wrote an...
Published 11/22/24
Matthew Bannister on the versatile actor Timothy West whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to soap operas. Sir Ian McKellen pays tribute.
Sir John Nott, the Conservative politician who was Defence Secretary at the time of the Falklands War.
June Spencer who played the matriarch of Ambridge, Peggy...
Published 11/15/24