Pictured: Margaret Maughan

Julian Worricker on Britain’s first Paralympic gold medallist, Margaret Maughan; Tanni Grey-Thompson compares the games of 1960 and now….

The music promoter and producer, John Cumming, co-founder of the London Jazz Festival….

Jerry Givens, once a state executioner….but then a leading campaigner in the United States for the abolition of the death penalty….

And the comedy writer, John Langdon; his friend and colleague Rory Bremner, recalls some of his best lines….

Interviewed guest: Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE

Interviewed guest: Peter White

Interviewed guest: Nod Knowles

Interviewed guest: Abraham Bonowitz

Interviewed guest: Rory Bremner

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: Rome Olympics 1960, Pathe News; No Triumph, No Tragedy, Radio 4 29/04/2013; Cerys on 6, 6 Music 05/11/2017; John Cumming interview, Jazz FM 17/11/2013; Former executioner opposes death penalty, Washington Post 11/02/2013; Week Ending, Radio 4 21/03/1980; Two Decades of Week Ending, Radio 4 07/09/1990; The News Quiz, Radio 4 03/09/1994; Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money, Vera Productions Ltd / Channel 4 02/11/2008.