Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney, Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Latour, Florence Fisher, Dr Nicholas Arnold - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

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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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