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Lord Kalms, Melissa Llewallyn-Davies, Rex Cowan, Wilma Finla

Matthew Bannister on businessman Lord Kalms, anthropologist Melissa Llewallyn-Davies, shipwreck hunter Rex Cowan and farmer Wilma Finlay.

Matthew Bannister on

Lord Kalms, who turned his family’s camera shop into the multi-million-pound Dixons electronics chain.

Melissa Llewellyn-Davies, the anthropologist who made an acclaimed TV series about Kenya’s Masai tribe before turning her camera on the UK.

Rex Cowan, the lawyer who changed career to become one of the world’s most successful shipwreck hunters.

Wilma Finlay, who worked with her husband David to introduce what they saw as more ethical animal husbandry on their farm in the Scottish borders.

Producer: Ed Prendeville

**In this episode we mistakenly referred to the town of Forres being in Aberdeenshire. Forres is located in Moray

Archive: On Your Farm, “The Ethical Dairy”, ѿý Radio 4, Interviewer Caz Graham, 03/02/2019; Escape to the Country, Series 21, Dumfries & Galloway, ѿý One, Presenter Sonali Shah, 25/05/2021; Children Calling ѿý, ѿý, 25/12/1942; Escape to Fulfilment, Rex Cowan: Wreck Hunter, ѿý, 02/09/1971; ѿý News, 10/04/1972; Retail Week Legends, 28/07/2016; Desert Island Discs, Sir Stanley Kalms, ѿý Radio 4, 01/07/2001; Dixons Advert, ITV, late 1970s; ѿý News, 22/11/1986; London Plus – Broadwater Farm Riot, ѿý News Archive; Nurses: The Team on B6, ѿý; Diary of a Maasai Village, ѿý; Scenes from the Farm, Documentary, Broadwater Farm Estate, London, UK, 1988

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