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Radio 4,31 May 2013,28 mins

An actor, a child behavioural researcher, a French singer-songwriter, a chemist, a lighthouse keeper and a bass player

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Matthew Bannister on: The actor Bill Pertwee, best known as the pugnacious air raid warden in Dad's Army. Joyce Robertson, whose research into young children who were separated from their parents transformed public policy Georges Moustaki, the Egyptian born French singer songwriter who had an affair with Edith Piaf Professor George Gray, the world's leading authority on the properties of liquid crystals. His work lies behind the screens that now dominate our daily lives. Angus Hutchison, Scotland's last principal light house keeper.

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