Rick Buckler, Margaret Miles-Bramwell, Harry Stewart Jr, Maureen Halton
John Wilson on musician Rick Buckler, Slimming World founder Margaret Miles-Bramwell, fighter pilot Harry Stewart Jr, and Frisbee entrepreneur Maureen Halton
John Wilson on
Rick Buckley, the drummer in The Jam, one of the most popular and influential British bands of the 70s and 80s.
Margaret Miles-Bramwell who founded Slimming World in response to what she saw as humiliation tactics by weight loss groups.
World War Two fighter pilot Harry Stewart Jr, part of the all-African American Tuskegee Airmen who despite huge successes in aerial combat, faced discrimination and segregation on the ground.
Maureen Halton, the biology lecturer who introduced and popularised the Frisbee in the UK.
Producer: Ed Prendeville
Archive:
Interview with WW2 Veteran Harry Stewart Jr鈥 From: Friends of the National World War II Memorial, uploaded 21.02.2024; Red Tails (2012) HD Movie Trailer - Lucasfilm Official Trailer, Uploaded to Youtube by Rotten Tomatoes, 29.07.2011; Remembering the Tuskegee Airmen From: U.S. Department of the Interior; Slimming World podcast, Permission granted by Rebecca Robinson 鈥 Director of Comms at Slimming World; Rock On!, 91热爆 Radio 1, 21.05.1977; THE JANICE FORSYTH SHOW: THE JANICE FORSYTH SHOW, 91热爆, 11.12.2017; Sounds of the 70s with Johnnie Walker : Rick Buckler, 91热爆 Radio 2, 06.02.2018
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