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
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Dame Deborah James (pictured), Yves Coppens, Revel Guest OBE, Samuel Bhima
Dom Phillips (pictured), Stephen S. Thompson, Caroline Drummond, Maureen Hiron
Dame Paula Rego (pictured), Bruce Kent, Hilary Devey CBE
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Shireen Abu Akleh, Robert Gillmor, Leonid Kravchuk (pictured), Carrie White
Kathy Boudin, Dennis Waterman (pictured), Sidney Altman, Régine Zylberberg
Colonel Alan Jenkins, Mary Monson, Elspeth Barker, Art Rupe (pictured)
Yvonne Blenkinsop (pictured), Dr Margaret Carswell, Mikhail Vasenkov, Denise Coffey
Mimi Reinhard, Sir Harrison Birtwistle (pictured), Sylvia Lancaster OBE, Letizia Battaglia
Jordan Mooney (pictured), Jack Higgins, Robert Ashe, David McKee
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