Nova Pilbeam, Reverend Owen Chadwick, Jon Vickers, Yoichiro Nambu, Nick Ryman - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

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The Reverend Owen Chadwick, the distinguished ecclesiastical historian who was vice Chancellor of Cambridge University during student protests in the 1970s and chaired an influential commission on Church and State.



Also Jon Vickers the operatic tenor best known for playing muscular roles like Samson, Otello and Peter Grimes.



Yoichiro Nambu, the theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his ground-breaking work on sub atomic particles.



Nova Pilbeam, the leading lady in early Hitchcock films who later turned her back on stage and screen.



And Nick Ryman who made his fortune by building up the family stationery firm and then moved to France to become a successful wine maker.

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