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Matthew Bannister on
Derek Mack, the rocket engineer who helped Britain enter the space age
June Brown, the actor best known as Dot Cotton in Eastenders
Dr Doris A. Derby, the American civil rights activist and photographer who took historic pictures of the struggle for equality
Dave Sales, the Dorset fisherman who fought a 23 year campaign to protect the sea bed in Lyme Bay.
Producer: Neil George
Interviewed guest: Dion Mack
Interviewed guest: Ken MacTaggart
Interviewed guest: Bob Banks
Interviewed guest: Hannah Collins
Interviewed guest: Gill Sales
Archive clips used: British Pathé, The Black Knight Rocket 1958; BBC One, The One Show - The Rocket Men 25/01/2019; BBC TV Archive, Black Arrow Project - 24 Hours 27/10/1971; BBC One, Eastenders, 1985-2020; BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs - June Brown 17/02/2017; British Movietone, V E Day in London 1945; Granada TV, Coronation Street, 19/08/1970; Library of Congress, Southern Oral History Program in North Carolina - Doris Derby Interview 2011; Storylines, Guardians of the Reef Project - Interview with David Sales 27/07/2017.
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