Professor Heinz Wolff, Aline Countess of Romanones, Tony Whitten, Fritz Lustig, Keely Smith
Matthew Bannister on a bioengineer, a spy, a conservationist, a secret listener, a singer.
Last Word · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Photo: Professor Heinz Wolff
Matthew Bannister on
Professor Heinz Wolff, the bioengineer who was known to millions of TV viewers as the presenter of "The Great Egg Race".
Aline, Countess of Romanones, the model and socialite who wrote best selling books based on her experiences of spying on the Nazis during the war.
Tony Whitten, the passionate conservationist who had eleven species named after him.
Fritz Lustig who worked as a wartime secret listener, eavesdropping on the conversations of German prisoners of war.
And the singer Keely Smith who, with her husband Louis Prima, became one of the most successful Las Vegas acts of the 1950s.