
Victor Lewis-Smith, Maureen Doherty, Pablo Milanés, Ailsa Irving
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The columnist, broadcaster, producer, musician and outrageous hoaxer Victor Lewis-Smith (pictured).
Maureen Doherty, the designer who worked with Issey Miyake and founded the influential fashion brand Egg. Edmund de Waal pays tribute.
Pablo Milanés, the Cuban musician who was one of the founders of the nueva trova singer/songwriter movement.
Ailsa Irving, who started and ran the UK Endometriosis Society after a long battle to get her own symptoms diagnosed.
Producer: Neil George
Interviewed guest: Graham Pass Interviewed guest: Edmund de Waal Interviewed guest: Robin Denselow Interviewed guest: Rob Irving Interviewed guest: Emma Cox
Archive clips used: BBC Two, Inside Victor Lewis-Smith 06/12/1993; YouTube, Opera Spoof by Victor Lewis-Smith; BBC Radio 4, You and Yours - the revival of Brylcreem 02/12/1985; BBC Radio 4, Midweek 21/05/1986; BBC Radio 4 Extra, Victor Lewis-Smith s1e08, 05/10/2017; Associated Rediffusion Productions Ltd/ Victor Lewis-Smith, Mary Whitehouse Sketch; YouTube, Victor Lewis-Smith - BBC Reception General Pinochet Prank Call; BBC Radio 4, Loose Ends - Victor Lewis-Smith 01/01/1987; BBC Radio 1, Victor Lewis-Smith Christmas Message, 26/12/1989; YouTube/ CriticalPast channel, Fidel Castro and his army fight against Batista's forces 12/06/2014; Juan Pil Vila, Pablo Milanés documentary (2017).
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