This week Libby Purves is joined by Lisa Potts, Mehrdad Seyf, Nigel Slater and Zoe Readhead.
LISA POTTS Lisa Potts became a national heroine when she shielded children in her care from a mentally ill man wielding a machete in the school where she worked. She was awarded The George Medal by the Queen for saving the children's lives despite being injured herself. In the years that have followed she has set up the charity Believe to Achieve which aims to encourage independence and enhance self-esteem in children.
MEHRDAD SEYF
Mehrdad Seyf is the playwright who came to the Britain from Iran just before the Iranian Revolution. He co-founded 30 Bird Productions, an Anglo-Iranian theatre company in 1996 which, uses its cultural heritage as its inspiration to explore the meeting points between Eastern and Western cultures.
NIGEL SLATER Nigel Slater is one of Britain's leading cooking writers. He writes a weekly column for the Observer and edits the magazine Observer Food Monthly and has won numerous awards for his cookery books. In his 2003 memoir, Toast he wrote for the first time about the food he was brought up with and the reasons behind his love of it. His new book Eating for England published by Fourth Estate, is a personal portrait of the British and their food.
ZOE READHEAD
Zoe Readhead is the head of Summerhill progressive school in Suffolk and is the daughter of its founder, A S Neill. The school went to the High Court in 2000 to fight its closure after a damning Ofsted report. It has just recieved its first full inspection since 1999, and the report was glowing.
A new four-part children's drama based on Summerhill which will be screened on CBBC starting 21st January 2008.
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