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Sir Howard Bernstein, the Chief Executive of Manchester City Council credited with transforming the city after the IRA bomb of 1996.

Joan Brady, the author and former ballet dancer who won the Whitbread Prize for her novel 鈥淭he Theory of War鈥�.

Gene Nora Jessen, the American pilot who was part of a group of women known as the Mercury 13 鈥� who were subjected to tests to see if they were fit to become astronauts.

Arthur 鈥淕aps鈥� Hendrickson, the vocalist with the two- tone group The Selecter. His bandmate Pauline Black OBE pays tribute.

Interviewee: Paul Horrocks
Interviewee: Alexander Masters
Interviewee: Marth Ackmann
Interviewee: Pauline Black OBE

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Archive used:
Sir Howard Bernstein interview, 大象传媒 News, North West Tonight, 21/03/2017; News Report, Manchester Bombing, 大象传媒 Radio 4, 15/06/1996; Howard Bernstein interview with Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser, Public Transportation in Manchester, City X, YouTube uploaded , 31/01/2018; News report - Commonwealth Games - Manchester, , 大象传媒 News, North West Tonight 25/07/2002; Howard Bernstein interview, 大象传媒 News, Midlands Today, 26/07/2022; Howard Bernstein interview, 大象传媒 News, North West Tonight, 31/03/2017; Joan Brady interview, The Forum, 大象传媒 World Service, 09/05/2010; Joan Brady, The Theory of War, The Late Show, 大象传媒 Two, 09/11/1993; Joan Brady interview, Woman鈥檚 Hour, 大象传媒 Radio 4, 15/03/2003; Mercury 13 , Official Trailer, Netflix, YouTube uploaded, 09/04/2018; Gene Nora Jessen presentation, Women鈥檚 Air Races, Aviation Business, and Astronaut Tests: A Pathbreaking Career, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum YouTube Channel, uploaded 05/06/2019; Pioneer aviator Gene Nora Jessen, Fox * News, Cleveland , YouTube channel, 20/08/2018.