Introduction
Season One introduces twenty remarkable people whose achievements, discoveries and acts of courage deserve to be better known.
These are their stories:
- Edwin Beard Budding: The Man Behind the Modern Pitch
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall: The Woman Who Gave Voltaire His Most Famous Words
- Pierre Bézier: The Man Who Taught Computers to Draw
- Nils Bohlin: The Man Whose Restraint Saved Lives
- Harry Beck: The Engineer Who Drew London Wrong
- Major Jack Mullin: The Man Who Turned a Nazi Secret into Modern Music
- Gino Bartali: The Cyclist with a Hidden Mission
- Virginia Apgar: The Woman Who Gave Every Child Their First Test
- Abdel Kader Haidara: The Librarian Who Smuggled a Library
- Elizabeth Seaman: The Reporter Who Couldn’t Escape Her Own Lie
- Grady Martin: The Man Who Found Music in Noise
- Dasia Taylor: The Schoolgirl Making Wounds Speak
- László Biró: The Journalist Who Reinvented Writing
- Edmond Albius: The Boy Who Made Vanilla Possible
- William Perkin: The Chemist Who Painted the Modern World
- Blind Willie Johnson: The Blues Singer Beyond the Solar System
- Cecilia Payne: The Astronomer Who Gave Us Stars
- Bobbi Gibb: The Woman Who Outran Sexism
- Bert Sproston: The Footballer Who Defied Hitler
- Marie Tharp: The Woman Who Redrew the Earth
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