Queen Fabiola, Stella Young, Bernard Stonehouse, Kent Haruf, Ralph Baer

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Matthew Bannister on The Australian disability campaigner and comedian Stella Young. She spoke out against what she called "inspiration porn." Queen Fabiola of Belgium - the Spanish aristocrat who was picked out as a suitable bride for the King by an Irish nun. Bernard Stonehouse, the polar scientist who spent three consecutive winters in the Antarctic and studied king penguins on South Georgia. Kent Haruf whose novels of American life are all set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado. And Ralph Baer, the electronic engineer who pioneered computer games played through a console plugged into TVs.