Matthew Bannister on
Audrey Adams who became a tireless campaigner for the rights of black people after her son was stabbed to death in a racist attack.
Nicola Trahan, who joined the French Resistance as a teenager and was later awarded the Croix de Guerre.
Edward Bond, the controversial playwright who played a key role in the abolition of censorship in British theatre.
The singer and songwriter Eric Carmen whose biggest hit “All By Myself” was based on a Rachmaninov piano concerto.
Interviewee: Lord Simon Woolley Interviewee: Reverend Eleanor Rance Interviewee: Simon Callow and Sean Holmes Interviewee: Debbie Wiseman
Producer: Ed Prendeville
Archive used: French Wartime Service: Musical Items, Sound Archive, BBC; D-Day Announcement - Communique No. 1, Sound Archive, BBC; The Reverend Al Sharpton, Kilroy BBC 1, BBC; Audrey Adams interviewed by C4 news in 2021, C4 News, YouTube upload, 19/03/2021; Edward Bond interview - TX Date: 12.10.2011; Eric Carmen - Never Gonna fall in love again; Eric Carmen - All by myself; The Raspberries – Go all the way
Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy, Dame Fanny Waterman
John le Carré (pictured), Patience Thomson, Doug Scott, Dame Barbara Windsor
Mario Molina, Irina Antonova, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Peter Alliss (pictured)
Hamish MacInnes OBE, José Padilla, Anne Rasa
Diego Maradona, Rosalind Grimshaw, Jan Morris CBE
Des O’Connor CBE, Richard Trim OBE, Dr Ataullah Siddiqui, Edith Raymond Locke
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Herbert Kretzmer, James Nash, Tom Maschler, Sister Chiara Hatton Hall
Derek Mahon, Professor Gerta Vrbová, Ang Rita Sherpa, Helena Shenel
Kenzo Takada, Colonel John Waddy, Frank Windsor, Ann Getty
Sir Harold Evans, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Alan Minter, Helen Taylor-Thompson
Juliette Greco, Bob Gore, Dame Georgina Mace, Jiri Menzel
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Dr James Partridge OBE, Sally Jacobs, Angela Buxton, Philip Horniblow OBE
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