Colleen McCullough, Richard von Weizsaecker, Carl Djerassi, Geraldine McEwan and Lotte Hass

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Matthew Bannister on Colleen McCullough, the Australian writer of the bestseller The Thorn Birds who spent her later life on a Pacific island. Richard von Weizsaecker, President of Germany at re-unification, who gave a highly significant speech about the country's attitude to its troubled 20th Century history. Carl Djerassi, the chemist who was known as the father of the contraceptive pill. The actress Geraldine McEwan, who had a distinguished stage career and played Miss Marple on TV. And the diver Lotte Hass who worked alongside her husband to pioneer underwater films which enchanted TV viewers in the 1950s.