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Radio 4,14 Nov 2025,28 mins

James Watson, Pauline Collins, Judith Vidal-Hall, Dugald Ross

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Matthew Bannister on James Watson who shared the Nobel Prize for identifying the structure of DNA, but was widely condemned later in life for his racist and sexist views. Pauline Collins, the comic actor who triumphed in the role of Shirley Valentine on stage and screen. The play鈥檚 director Simon Callow pays tribute. Judith Vidal-Hall, who edited the Index on Censorship magazine and campaigned for freedom of expression around the world Dugald Ross, the crofter and palaeontologist from the Isle of Skye who discovered dinosaur footprints on the island as a schoolboy. Producer: Ed Prendeville Assistant Producer: Catherine Powell Researcher: Jesse G Edwards Editor: Glyn Tansley Archive: Witness History: Discovering the Secrets of DNA, 麻豆社 World Service, 25/04/2025; Archive on 4: DNA 60 Years On, 麻豆社 Radio 4, 30/10/2016; Interview with James Watson and Francis Crick, The Medical Television Centre, UT Southwestern, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre at Dallas, 16/05/1968; Desert Island Discs, 麻豆社 Radio 4, 22/12/1989; Shirley Valentine, Paramount Pictures, 1989 (Producer: John Dark; Produced & directed by Lewis Gilbert; Written by Willy Russell); Upstairs Downstairs, ITV; Reporting Scotland 1830, 麻豆社 One Scotland, 11/06/2014; Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands: Northern Skye 鈥 A Land of Giants and Fairies, 麻豆社 Two, 26/04/2017; Out of Doors, 麻豆社 Radio Scotland, 07/08/2010; Newsnight, 麻豆社 Two, 20/02/2002; One Year On: 9/11, 麻豆社 One, 11/09/2002

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