Sydney Brenner, Dan Robbins, Edda Tasiemka, Ian McDonald
Matthew Bannister on a biologist, an artist, an archivist and a spokesman.
Last Word · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Pictured: Sydney Brenner
Matthew Bannister on
Sydney Brenner, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist who worked with Francis Crick to map DNA.
Dan Robbins, the artist who invented painting by numbers.
Edda Tasiemka, the archivist who kept a comprehensive newspaper and magazine cuttings collection in her North London home.
Ian McDonald, the Ministry of Defence spokesman during the Falklands War who became a familiar face on TV and was known for his sonorous delivery.
Interviewed guest: Professor Jonathan Hodgkin Interviewed guest: Larry Robbins Interviewed guest: Robert Lacey Interviewed guest: Ian Mather Interviewed guest: Revel Barker Producer: Paula McGinley