Season Two: Introduction
Season Two introduces twenty more remarkable people whose achievements, discoveries and acts of courage...
Richard Sedley
Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The 28-Year-Old Who Made Vincent van Gogh
Today Vincent van Gogh is the most famous artist in the world. When he...
Jimmy Hill: The Footballer Who Made Modern Football Modern
Jimmy Hill thought English football was stuck in a “feudal time warp”.
He spoke...
Masahiro Hara: The Engineer Who Built a Bridge Between Two Worlds
In the early 1990s, workers in Japanese car factories could spend most of their...
Claudette Colvin: The Schoolgirl Who Refused to Stand
On 2 March 1955, a 15-year-old schoolgirl refused to give up her...
Tommy Flowers: The Engineer Who Built the Impossible Machine
During the Second World War, Britain intercepted German messages but could not act on...
Jack Johnson: The Boxer Who Refused to Know His Place
At the start of the twentieth century, the heavyweight boxing championship was more than...
Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Indian Clerk Whose Mathematics Shapes Your Life
On 31 January 1913, renowned Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy opened a letter from...
Delia Derbyshire: The Woman Who Made the Future Sound Reel
In 1963, Britain heard a sound unlike anything it had heard before. It was...
Norman Borlaug: The Man Who Made Wheat Smaller and Bellies Fuller
In the 1940s, wheat had a problem. The more fertiliser farmers applied, the more...
Robert Chesebrough: The Chemist Who Sold Waste to the World
In the 1860s, oil was discovered in Pennsylvania, changing America forever. What had once...
Peter Norman: The Runner Who Chose to Stand
In 1968, landmark civil rights laws had made racial discrimination illegal in the United...