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Radio 4,17 May 2013,28 mins

A geophysicist, a pro-life campaigner, a former Ford UK chief executive, a composer and an actor

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Matthew Bannister on Joe Farman - the geophysicist who discovered a hole in the ozone layer. The pro life campaigner Dr Margaret White The former Chief Executive of Ford UK Sir Terence Beckett, who oversaw the development of the Cortina and the Transit van. The versatile British composer Steve Martland And Arnold Peters who played Jack Woolley in the Archers. June Spencer - who plays his wife Peggy -tells us that his Alzheimer's storyline was very poignant as life mirrored art.

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