Juliette Greco, Bob Gore, Dame Georgina Mace, Jiri Menzel
Julian Worricker on the French singer Juliette Greco, the inventor Bob Gore, the ecologist Georgina Mace, the film director Jiri Menzel.
Pictured: Juliette Greco
Julian Worricker on the French singer and actor, Juliette Greco, who rose to fame on the famous Left Bank in Paris after the war....
Bob Gore who revolutionised outdoor clothing with his invention of the waterproof fabric, Gore-Tex....
The ecologist Dame Georgina Mace, who changed the way threatened species were classified and reshaped worldwide conservation policies....
And the Czech director, Jiri Menzel, who won an Oscar for his 1966 film 'Closely Observed Trains'.
Interviewed guest: Agnes Poirier
Interviewed guest: David Cole
Interviewed guest: Professor Kate Jones
Interviewed guest: Professor Ian Christie
Producer: Neil George
Archive clips from: In Town Today, Radio 4 24/03/1962; ‘Vive Paris’: The Liberation of Paris in 1944, British Movietone 29/06/2015; Roots of Heaven, directed by John Huston, Darryl F Zanuck Productions / Twentieth Century Fox 1958; Moon Landing Live, ±«Óãtv America 20/07/2019; Perseverance Launch to Mars, NASA 30/07/2020; The Life Scientific, Radio 4 12/07/2016; Closely Watched Trains, directed by Jiri Menzel, Filmove Studio Barrandov 1966; The Film Programme, Radio 4 09/05/2008.
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Juliette Gréco
Born 7 February 1927; died 23 September 2020, aged 93.
Last Word spoke to journalist Agnes Poirier.
Bob Gore
Born 15 April 1937; died 17 September 2020, aged 83.
Last Word spoke to David Cole, President and CEO of the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.
Professor Dame Georgina Mace DBE, FRS
Born 12 July 1953; died 19 September 2020, aged 67.Â
Last Word spoke to her colleague Professor Kate Jones, from the department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at UCL.
Jiřà Menzel
Born 23 February 1938; died 5 September 2020, aged 82.
Last Word spoke to Ian Christie, Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London.
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