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On All Things Considered this week there’s another chance to hear Roy Jenkins interview with Dame Julia Cleverdon , counted by The Times newspaper to be among the 50 most influential women in Britain. 

She is said to have ‘incorrigible charm and relentless focus’ and she manages to co-opt many of the leading figures in business and industry  to her campaigns -  on everything from promoting literacy and improving life chances through education to regenerating communities.  

Julia Cleverdon’s operating style has been summed up simply: ‘pick a target, find a strategy, obsess about it, then pull British bosses together behind the cause again and again.’
She has been a long-term adviser to Prince Charles, working on many of his charitable projects, notably Business in the Community, which works for a fairer society and a more sustainable future - she was its chief executive for 16 years and is now vice president.

She talks to Roy Jenkins about her life, her faith and her family roots in Aberdare.