The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Oleg Ivanovsky, Jim Petrie, Dame Julia Polak and Bob Crewe

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Julian Worricker on The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, the last of the Mitford Sisters and a woman credited with turning around the financial fortunes of the Chatsworth Estate. Oleg Ivanovsky, one of the last remaining rocket scientists who witnessed the complete Soviet space programme from within. The artist and illustrator, Jim Petrie, who brought us the comic-strip adventures of Minnie the Minx in the Beano. The scientist, Dame Julia Polak, who - after a heart and lung transplant - embarked on a second career developing laboratory organs. And the songwriter, Bob Crewe, who composed some of the Four Seasons' biggest hits.