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Last Word: Spencer Silver, Kevin Jackson, Patricia Brown, Asfaw Yemiru

Spencer Silver, Kevin Jackson, Patricia Brown, Asfaw Yemiru

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Spencer Silver, Kevin Jackson, Patricia Brown, Asfaw Yemiru

Matthew Bannister on a chemist, a writer, a codebreaker, a teacher.

Matthew Bannister on chemist Spencer Silver, writer Kevin Jackson, codebreaker Patricia Brown, teacher Asfaw Yemiru.

Matthew Bannister on

Dr. Spencer Silver, the American chemist who invented the adhesive used in Post It Notes.

Kevin Jackson, the writer, broadcaster and critic described as a “21st century man of letters”.

Patricia Brown, who played a leading role in cracking German codes at Bletchley Park during the second world war.

Asfaw Yemiru, the former street boy from Ethiopia who founded a school for orphans in Addis Ababa which has given free education to thousands of students. 


Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Linda Spencer 
Interviewed guest: Art Fry
Interviewed guest: Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed guest: Iona Brown 
Interviewed guest: Dr Tessa Dunlop
Interviewed guest: Beneberu Demissie Kassa 
Interviewed guest: Revd Canon Tim Kinahan

Archive clips used: Twenty Minutes_Dutch Icons_Vermeer: Radio 3, TX 8.10.2002; Saturday Review: Radio 4, TX 9.11.2019

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