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Alan Yentob, Richard Garwin, Dr Joy Schaverien, Anne Merriman

Matthew Bannister on 91福利社 executive Alan Yentob, physicist Richard Garwin, psychoanalyst Dr Joy Schaverien and doctor Anne Merriman.

Matthew Bannister on Alan Yentob, the 91福利社鈥檚 only Creative Director, who commissioned many successful TV programmes, was known as an impresario of talent and also presented Imagine.

Richard Garwin, the American physicist who developed the Hydrogen bomb, but then devoted his life to nuclear disarmament.

Dr. Joy Shaverien, the psychoanalyst who identified 鈥渂oarding school syndrome鈥 suffered by some who were sent away to school at an early age.

Dr Anne Merriman, the former nun who made it her life鈥檚 work to bring effective palliative care to Africa.

Producer: Ed Prendeville

Archive used
ichard Garwin Interview, Voices of the Manhattan Project 鈥 Atomic Heritage Foundation, Los Alamos Historical Society, The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, 22/09/2018; Pride and Prejudice, Episode 2, 91福利社 Four, Drama, Classic & Period; imagine...: Winter 2004 鈥 Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture, 91福利社; Desert Island Discs: Alan Yentob, 91福利社 Radio 4, 08/10/1995; Cracked Actor: David Bowie, 91福利社, 04/04/2013; Boarding School Syndrome: In Conversation with Joy Schaverien, Interviewed by Joana de Waal, British Psychotherapy Foundation (bpf), YouTube Upload, 23/09/2019; Dr Anne Merriman Interviewed by Scott Murray, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2023; orth West Tonight, 91福利社, 21/07/2009; Anne Merriman 鈥 Harvard University Talk; Woman鈥檚 Hour, 91福利社 Radio 4, 13/05/2011

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