Season Two: Introduction
Season Two introduces twenty more remarkable people whose achievements, discoveries and acts of courage deserve to be better known.
These are their stories:
- Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made van Gogh Famous
- Jimmy Hill: The Footballer Who Made Modern Football Modern
- Masahiro Hara: The Engineer Who Built a Bridge Between Two Worlds
- Claudette Colvin: The Schoolgirl Who Refused to Stand
- Tommy Flowers: The Engineer Who Built the Impossible Machine
- Jack Johnson: The Boxer Who Refused to Know His Place
- Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Indian Clerk Whose Mathematics Shapes Your Life
- Delia Derbyshire: The Woman Who Made the Future Sound Reel
- Norman Borlaug: The Man Who Made Wheat Smaller and Bellies Fuller
- Robert Chesebrough: The Chemist Who Sold Waste to the World
- Peter Norman: The Runner Who Chose to Stand
- Ellen Swallow Richards: The ‘Housekeeper’ Who Brought Science Home
- Gregory C. Coleman: The Drummer Who Changed Music in Seven Seconds
- Barry Marshall: The Doctor Who Drank a Stomach Ulcer
- Mark Court: The Sign Painter Who Makes Perfection Human
- Peter Safar: The Doctor Who Began Before the Beginning
- Sir Kenelm Digby: The Englishman Who Made Champagne Possible
- John Frederick Bateman: The Victorian Who Moved Mountains
- Jean-François Champollion: The Linguist Who Gave Ancient Egypt Its Voice
- Eugene Polley: The Man Who Pressed Our Buttons
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Remarkable people history forgot.