Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney, Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Latour, Florence Fisher, Dr Nicholas Arnold
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Kirsty Lang on
Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney, the secret billionaire who gave most of his money away to good causes.
Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Latour, the fearless secret agent who was parachuted into Nazi occupied Normandy a month before D-Day.
Florence Fisher, who was adopted as a child and later led a movement to help millions of others find their birth parents.
Dr Nicholas Arnold, one of the world’s leading experts on reptiles.
Interviewee: Conor O'Clery
Interviewee: Clare Mulley
Interviewee: Lorraine Dusky
Interviewee: Andie Markoe-Byrne
Interviewee: Chris Arnold
Interviewee: Dr Colin McCarthy
Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
Archive used:
Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story, RTE Factual, YouTube, Atlantic Phil, Uploaded 05/06/2010; Chuck Feeney, Founding Chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies, on Empathy, YouTube, Atlantic Phil, Uploaded 13/04/2011; Discovery with Jill Neville, BBC World Service, 01/06/1988; Adoption – The Right To Know, interview with Florence Fisher, Harvard University, 01/06/1990; Adoption records unsealed, News 8, News report, Wish-TV Indiana, YouTube uploaded 05/07/2018;
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