The New Elizabethans
Summary: To mark Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, James Naughtie introduces the 60 new Elizabethans who reflect and define her reign. The 60 have been chosen by a panel of historians. The programmes are broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 from 11 June for 12 weeks.
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Alan Sainsbury - the champion of the self-service supermarkets, politician, businessman. James Naughtie considers his life and career.
Doris Lessing, a spirited, straight-talking novelist has been praised for her ability to inhabit different fictional worlds. She was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and described as "That epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".
Today - Francis Crick, a famous molecular biologist. James Naughtie peers down the microscope at the talkative and incisive Nobel prize-winning scientist who helped discover the structure of DNA. As the principal author of the 1953 paper in the journal Nature, Crick, alongside Jim Watson, established how messages might be carried by DNA, the memory system in our genes.
Vladimir Raitz, the pioneer of the package holiday. James Naughtie considers how Raitz, broadened the horizons of the British holidaymaker and set the ball rolling for mass tourism in the Mediterranean.
Michael Young was a social reformer bursting with ideas, who challenged conventional thinking and was one of the leading minds behind the 1945 Labour manifesto. James Naughtie looks at the energetic and innovative founder of Which?, the Consumers' Association and the Open University.
Graham Greene was among the foremost novelists of the Second Elizabethan age. James Naughtie tells the story of a master of moral guilt and cold war intrigues.
Elizabeth David, the cook and the writer who brought European cuisine to British tables. James Naughtie tells her story and how she persuaded her readers that food was one of life's great pleasures, and that cooking should not be a drudgery but an exciting and creative act.
The New Elizabethans: Edmund Hillary. Edmund Hillary was the first man to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest.James Naughtie assesses the mountaineer whose most famous achievement was announced on the day of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Barbara Windsor is a very British combination of grit and naughtiness - James Naughtie looks at the star of the long-running BBC soap, Eastenders and the popular "Carry On..." films.
