Outlook Mixtape: Unseen yet powerful

While Silicon Valley moguls revel in their wealth, Tim Berners-Lee, the man behind the first web browser, has never sought money or fame. He tells us where his values come from and why his children were told not to mention his work at school.

Afghan medical physicist Shakardokht Jafari is developing an innovative way of improving cancer care which was inspired by common glass beads. But when she was a child refugee in Iran her family were determined to marry her off as soon as possible despite her outstanding school performance. The interview was first broadcast in 2023.

Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu is a distinguished British-Nigerian nano-pharmacologist developing medicines on a scale so tiny that they are invisible without an electron microscope. And yet, at the start of her career she was a young woman with three children, no money and nowhere to live.

Japanese student Eimi Haga employed a different invisible technology to write her history project: the secret ink used in the past by Japanese spies called ninjas. The story was first broadcast in 2019.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen

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(Photo: A transparent 60-minute cassette tape spooled halfway through with a white label with The Outlool Mixtape written in black. Credit: Getty Images)