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Radio 4,30 Sep 2011,30 mins

Wangari Maathai, David Croft, Gusty Spence, Carl Wood

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Matthew Bannister on The Kenyan human rights and environmental campaigner Wangari Maathai who became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace prize in 2004 The writer and producer David Croft, who brought us some of TV's best loved comedies, including Dad's Army, Are You Being Served and Hi De Hi. The former leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Gusty Spence, who turned his back on violence while serving an eighteen year prison sentence for murder And the Australian pioneer of in vitro fertilisation, Professor Carl Wood.

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