Pictured: Albert Uderzo

Matthew Bannister on

Valerie Pettit OBE, the senior MI6 officer in charge of the daring operation to get Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky out of Russia after his cover was blown.

Albert Uderzo – the French cartoonist who created Asterix the Gaul.

Reverend Joseph Lowery – the leading American civil rights activist who worked alongside Martin Luther King in the campaign for black equality.

Julie Felix – the American-born singer who became known as the first lady of British folk.

Interviewed guest: Ben Macintyre

Interviewed guest: Agnes Poirier

Interviewed guest: Dr Paul Smith

Interviewed guest: Henrietta Giles

Interviewed guest: Fran Collier

Producer: Neil George