Last Word - Clarence B Jones, Judith Chalmers, Dr Anna Ritchie, Professor Frank Land
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Clarence B Jones the American lawyer and civil rights campaigner who helped Martin Luther King to write his famous I Have A Dream speech.
Judith Chalmers, the TV and radio presenter best known for her globetrotting holiday series Wish You Were Here.
Dr Anna Ritchie, the archaeologist who excavated some of Orkney’s most revealing ancient sites.
And Frank Land, one of the prime movers in the development of the world’s first business computer - at the Lyons catering company.
Interviewee: Mark Durden Smith Interviewee: Matt Ritchie Interviewee: Georgina Ferry
Producer: Catherine Powell Assistant Producer: Ribika Moktan Researcher: Josie Hardy Editor: Andrea Kennedy
Archive used: Martin Luther King March on Washington, SOUND ARCHIVE Reference: 28322, 28/08/1963; BBC News special, BBC News, 28/08/2020; Wish you were Here…? Thames TV, ITV, 10/01/1978. From YouTube upload ThamesTv, 8/08/2020; Wish you were there, BBC Archive, 28/03/1966; Tracks of My Years, BBC Radio 2, 28/09/2017; Smillie’s People: Judith Chalmers, BBC 1, 20/01/1997; Pebble Mill, BBC 1, 14/05/1993; Gardeners’ Question Time: Matt Biggs’ House, BBC Radio 4, 27/08/2023; The House the Picts Built, BBC, 28/08/1974; Around Scotland: The Scots, BBC1 Scotland, 10/03/1977; Around Scotland: Early History: The First People, 17/09/1979; LEO celebration Part 2 - Panel Discussion with Frank Land, Georgina Ferry, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Centre for Computing History and the LEO Computers Society (partnership project), 18/05/2023; BBC Oral History Collection - Interview with Judith Chalmers, John Escolme History of the BBC, 26/03/1982;
Published on Friday, 29th May 2026.
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