Hannah Deacon, Andrew Norfolk, Dame June Clark, Martin Graham
Matthew Bannister on campaigner Hannah Deacon, journalist Andrew Norfolk, nurses’ leader Dame June Clark and businessman Martin Graham.
Matthew Bannister on
Hannah Deacon who ran a successful campaign to allow her son – and many others – to be treated with cannabis after he was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy.
Andrew Norfolk, the journalist who exposed the Rotherham grooming gang scandal.
Dame June Clark, the President of the Royal College of Nursing who argued for more education to increase the skills of the nursing profession.
Martin Graham the businessman who built his own opera house in the Cotswolds so he could stage Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
Producer: Ed Prendeville
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No More Nightingale, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 1991; One O’Clock News, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 03/04/1989; Open Country, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4, 27/06/2019; The Longborough Ring 2024: Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen, Longborough Festival Opera, Music Director Anthony Negus, Director Amy Lane; Today, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4, 2013; Utopia: In Search of the Dream, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four, 05/05/2020; Sportsday, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News 24, 15/09/2016; ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Breakfast, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 19/02/2018; This Morning: Should Medical Cannabis Be More Accessible, ITV, Uploaded to YouTube, 29/10/2018; Morning Live, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 07/11/2022; The Today Programme, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4, 19/06/2018; ITV News, ITV, 19/06/2018; Wogan, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 19/01/1990; Raising a Glass to Cheers, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4, 26/07/2012; Cheers, TV Programme, Produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions; Groomed for Sex, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Three, 06/12/2011; The Media Show, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4, 27/08/2014; Frontlines of Journalism, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4, 04/07/2023; Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, KV 543: Adagio. Allegro, Performed by Bruno Walter, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra, Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Siegfried, Act II Scene 3: Willkommen, Siegfried, Performed by Manfred Jung, Heinz Zednik, Bayreuther Festspielorchester, Conductor Pierre Boulez, Composed by Richard Wagner; Le nozze di Figaro, K.492, Act 3: Ricevete, o padroncina, Performed by Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Conductor Ferenc Fricsay, Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Das Rheingold, Scene 1: Lugt, Schwestern! Die Weckerin lacht in den Grund, Performed by Norma Sharp, Ilse Gramatzki, Marga Schiml, Hermann Becht, Bayreuther Festspielorchester, Conductor Pierre Boulez, Composed by Richard Wagner
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