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Pictured: Wanda Ferragamo
Matthew Bannister on
Wanda Ferragamo - who took over her husband's successful Italian shoe making business and turned it into a global fashion brand.
Wim Kok, the Dutch prime minister whose career was overshadowed by the Srebrenica massacre.
The writer Ntozake Shange, best known for her choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf".
The Algerian diplomat Mohamed Sahnoun who played a key role in ending several conflicts in Africa.
Keith Killby, the pacifist who served unarmed with the Special Boat Service during the war.
Interviewed guest: Luisa Zargani
Archive clips from: Radio 4 News, 28/11/2000; Radio 4 News, 10/04/2002; Ntozake Shange - The Lost Interview, Reelblack, 08/03/2016; Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC 23/09/2014; A Journey Through Imaginary Landscapes, Radio 3 16/04/1993; For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Radio 3 21/01/1996; BBC News 30/07/1992; Newsnight, BBC Two 14/06/1993; Interview with Keith Killby, courtesy of the Monte San Martino Trust, 17/06/2014.
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Pictured: Wanda Ferragamo
Matthew Bannister on
Wanda Ferragamo - who took over her husband's successful Italian shoe making business and turned it into a global fashion brand.
Wim Kok, the Dutch prime minister whose career was overshadowed by the Srebrenica massacre.
The writer Ntozake Shange, best known for her choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf".
The Algerian diplomat Mohamed Sahnoun who played a key role in ending several conflicts in Africa.
Keith Killby, the pacifist who served unarmed with the Special Boat Service during the war.
Interviewed guest: Luisa Zargani
Archive clips from: Radio 4 News, 28/11/2000; Radio 4 News, 10/04/2002; Ntozake Shange - The Lost Interview, Reelblack, 08/03/2016; Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC 23/09/2014; A Journey Through Imaginary Landscapes, Radio 3 16/04/1993; For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Radio 3 21/01/1996; BBC News 30/07/1992; Newsnight, BBC Two 14/06/1993; Interview with Keith Killby, courtesy of the Monte San Martino Trust, 17/06/2014.

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