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EPISODE · Sep 24, 2021 · 28 MIN

Jimmy Greaves (pictured), Sir Clive Sinclair, Olivia Jordan, Carolyn Shoemaker

from Last Word · host BBC Radio 4

Julian Worricker on:One of the greatest attacking footballers of all time, Jimmy Greaves, who later became a successful and often very funny TV presenter...The inventor Sir Clive Sinclair, who made home computers and calculators portable and affordable.Olivia Jordan whose heroism during World War 2 saw her driving ambulances through France before she became Charles De Gaulle's translator.And the astrophysicist, Carolyn Shoemaker, one of the world's foremost detectors of comets and asteroids.Interviewed guest: Jim Rosenthal Interviewed guest: Jason Fitzpatrick Interviewed guest: Christopher Curry Interviewed guest: Tessa Dunlop Interviewed guest: Dr Jennifer Wiseman Interviewed guest: David LevyProducer: Neil GeorgeArchive clips from: The Levin Interview: Radio 4 24.06.1984; Today, Radio 4 20.09.2021; Profile, Radio 4 22.03.1979; Newsreel: German Invasion of France 1940, Pathe News; To All Free Frenchmen: Charles de Gaulle on the French Defeat 1940, Pathe News 13.04.2014; The Jupiter Collision - Watch this space, BBC Two 16.07.1994; BBC News: BBC One 22.07.1994.

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