Pictured: Juliette Greco

Julian Worricker on the French singer and actor, Juliette Greco, who rose to fame on the famous Left Bank in Paris after the war....

Bob Gore who revolutionised outdoor clothing with his invention of the waterproof fabric, Gore-Tex....

The ecologist Dame Georgina Mace, who changed the way threatened species were classified and reshaped worldwide conservation policies....

And the Czech director, Jiri Menzel, who won an Oscar for his 1966 film 'Closely Observed Trains'.

Interviewed guest: Agnes Poirier
Interviewed guest: David Cole
Interviewed guest: Professor Kate Jones
Interviewed guest: Professor Ian Christie

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: In Town Today, Radio 4 24/03/1962; ‘Vive Paris’: The Liberation of Paris in 1944, British Movietone 29/06/2015; Roots of Heaven, directed by John Huston, Darryl F Zanuck Productions / Twentieth Century Fox 1958; Moon Landing Live, BBC America 20/07/2019; Perseverance Launch to Mars, NASA 30/07/2020; The Life Scientific, Radio 4 12/07/2016; Closely Watched Trains, directed by Jiri Menzel, Filmove Studio Barrandov 1966; The Film Programme, Radio 4 09/05/2008.