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James Watson who shared the Nobel Prize for identifying the structure of DNA, but was widely condemned later in life for his racist and sexist views.

Pauline Collins, the comic actor who triumphed in the role of Shirley Valentine on stage and screen. The play’s director Simon Callow pays tribute.

Judith Vidal-Hall, who edited the Index on Censorship magazine and campaigned for freedom of expression around the world

Dugald Ross, the crofter and palaeontologist from the Isle of Skye who discovered dinosaur footprints on the island as a schoolboy.

Producer: Ed Prendeville
Assistant Producer: Catherine Powell
Researcher: Jesse G Edwards
Editor: Glyn Tansley

Archive:
Witness History: Discovering the Secrets of DNA, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ World Service, 25/04/2025; Archive on 4: DNA 60 Years On, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio 4, 30/10/2016; Interview with James Watson and Francis Crick, The Medical Television Centre, UT Southwestern, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre at Dallas, 16/05/1968; Desert Island Discs, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio 4, 22/12/1989; Shirley Valentine, Paramount Pictures, 1989 (Producer: John Dark; Produced & directed by Lewis Gilbert; Written by Willy Russell); Upstairs Downstairs, ITV; Reporting Scotland 1830, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ One Scotland, 11/06/2014; Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands: Northern Skye – A Land of Giants and Fairies, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Two, 26/04/2017; Out of Doors, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Scotland, 07/08/2010; Newsnight, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Two, 20/02/2002; One Year On: 9/11, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ One, 11/09/2002