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Gunther von Hagens, often known as Dr Death, was a German anatomist who developed a system of plastination to preserve human bodies permanently after death. His aim was to de-mystify anatomy and created the internationally successful 鈥淏ody Worlds鈥� exhibition. Former Channel 4 producer Nick Curwin, who helped Gunther broadcast a public autopsy, tells his story.

Sir Ian Wood was the billionaire Scottish businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune by transforming his Aberdeen based family fishing boat repair business into one of the oil and gas sector鈥檚 biggest engineering firms. The former Business Editor at 麻豆社 Scotland, Douglas Fraser, covered Sir Ian鈥檚 work for many years and shares his memories.

Juliet Gardiner was a social historian who pored over the diaries of ordinary people in WWII to bring a different perspective to history. She wrote books and made radio and TV programmes such as Channel 4's 鈥淭he 1940s House鈥� in which a modern family were challenged to live as they would have done during the war. Fellow social historian Simon Garfield reveals what inspired her to choose her field of study.

Dinkie Flowers was a mere 98 years-old when she wowed the audience and judges alike on the 麻豆社 TV show The Greatest Dancer. She had previously had a long and successful dancing career when in the 1940s she moved from the ballroom to the ice rink, to become England's only ice acrobat. She went on to set up her own dance school in her home town of Shoreham-by-Sea. Her friend and former pupil Louise Durrant remembers her.

Presenter: Matthew Bannister
Producer: Ben Mitchell
Assistant Producer: Ribika Moktan
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Andrea Kennedy

Archive:
麻豆社 World Service, The Interview, 17/08/2007; 麻豆社 Two, Newsnight, 22/11/2002; Channel 4, Firefly Film, Television, The Autopsy, 20/11/2002; 麻豆社 News, Reporting Scotland, 18/11/2012; Channel 4, Wall to Wall Media, The 1940鈥檚 House, 02/01/2001; 麻豆社 Radio 4, Archive on 4, 05/09/2015; 麻豆社, A Blitz Scrapbook, 01/01/1941; 麻豆社 Radio 4, The History of the Future, 20/02/2018; 麻豆社 Radio 4, Making History, 23/02/2016; 麻豆社 Two, Who Do You Thin You Are?, 27/12/2007; 麻豆社 Two, the Goodies, Kitten Kong, 09/04/1972; 麻豆社 Two, Springwatch, 29/05/2006; 麻豆社 News, 10/03/2021; 麻豆社 One, The Greatest Dancer, 04/01/2020