Jimmy Greaves (pictured), Sir Clive Sinclair, Olivia Jordan, Carolyn Shoemaker - a podcast by 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 Levy

Producer: Neil George

Archive 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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