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Last Word: Sir Howard Bernstein, Joan Brady, Gene Nora Jessen, Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson

Sir Howard Bernstein, Joan Brady, Gene Nora Jessen, Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson

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Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, an author, a pilot and a singer.

Matthew Bannister on civil servant Sir Howard Bernstein, author Joan Brady, pilot Gene Nora Jessen and singer Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson.

Matthew Bannister on 

Sir Howard Bernstein, the Chief Executive of Manchester City Council credited with transforming the city after the IRA bomb of 1996.
 
Joan Brady, the author and former ballet dancer who won the Whitbread Prize for her novel “The Theory of War”.
 
Gene Nora Jessen, the American pilot who was part of a group of women known as the Mercury 13 – who were subjected to tests to see if they were fit to become astronauts.
 
Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson, the vocalist with the two- tone group The Selecter. His bandmate Pauline Black OBE pays tribute.

Interviewee: Paul Horrocks
Interviewee: Alexander Masters
Interviewee: Marth Ackmann
Interviewee: Pauline Black OBE

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Archive used:
Sir Howard Bernstein interview, BBC News, North West Tonight, 21/03/2017;   News Report, Manchester Bombing, BBC Radio 4, 15/06/1996; Howard Bernstein interview with Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser,   Public Transportation in Manchester, City X, YouTube uploaded , 31/01/2018;  News report - Commonwealth Games - Manchester, , BBC News, North West Tonight 25/07/2002; Howard Bernstein interview, BBC News, Midlands Today, 26/07/2022; Howard Bernstein interview, BBC News, North West Tonight, 31/03/2017; Joan Brady interview, The Forum, BBC World Service, 09/05/2010; Joan Brady, The Theory of War, The Late Show, BBC Two, 09/11/1993; Joan Brady interview, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, 15/03/2003; Mercury 13 , Official Trailer, Netflix, YouTube uploaded, 09/04/2018;  Gene Nora Jessen presentation, Women’s Air Races, Aviation Business, and Astronaut Tests: A Pathbreaking Career, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum YouTube Channel, uploaded 05/06/2019; Pioneer aviator Gene Nora Jessen, Fox * News, Cleveland , YouTube channel, 20/08/2018.

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