Mike Lynch, Nell McCafferty, Ruth Colvin, Sven-Göran Eriksson
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Matthew Bannister on Mike Lynch, who was one of the UK’s most successful tech entrepreneurs.
Nell McCafferty, the Irish journalist and feminist campaigner who took part in the “contraceptive train” protest in 1971.
Ruth Colvin, who founded the American “Literacy Volunteers” organisation to help adults who couldn’t read or write
Sven-Göran Eriksson, the Swedish born football manager who became the first non-British coach of the England football team.
Interviewee: Suranga Chandratillake Interviewee: David Davis Interviewee: Susan McKay Interviewee: Judy Cheatham Interviewee: Henry Winter
Producers: Ben Mitchell and Ed Prendeville
Archive: Contraceptives From Belfast, RTE, 1971; Witness, BBC News, 03/12/2016; Ruth Colvin, All things considered, NPR, 10/12/2006; Ruth Colvin, Onondaga Historical Association, YouTube Upload, 07/07/2020; Ruth Colvin, Onondaga Historical Association, YouTube Upload, 01/12/2016; The Real Sven-Goran Eriksson, BBC Radio 5Live; Kammy & Ben's Proper Football Podcast, BBC, 18/11/2022; BBC News at Ten; 20/11/2012; PM, BBC Radio 4, 01/08/24; The Report, BBC Radio 4, 27/12/12
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