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Radio 4,29 May 2015,28 mins

Raymond Gosling, Eileen Gray, Sir Duncan Watson, Denys Darlow, Grace Lee Whitney

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Matthew Bannister on Raymond Gosling, who played a crucial role in the discovery of DNA. Eileen Gray, who fought tirelessly to gain recognition for women's cycling Sir Duncan Watson, the blind lawyer who campaigned for more blind people to be involved in running the RNIB. Denys Darlow, the conductor, composer and organist who founded the Tilford Bach festival and the London Handel Festival. And Grace Lee Whitney the actress who played Captain Kirk's glamorous assistant in the early episodes of Star Trek.

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