Nina Simone
In a rare interview from her home in the south of France, Nina Simone talks to Mark about the inherent racism of America today and of her image as the most difficult woman in show business.
Frances Gabe
Inventor Frances Gabe hated housework so much she got the house to do it itself. It took Gabe, 86, 30 years and over 拢10,000, but she got there in the end, turning her Oregon home into the world's first self-cleaning property. Gabe, who has over 30 patents in the United States, talks to Mark about her work and her bemusement as to why everybody doesn't have a home like her own.
Patty Hearst
What was promised as a rare interview, turns into a 'non-meeting' as America's most famous kidnap victim, Patty Hearst fails to make her appointment with Mark. Kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, the society heiress joined the organisation in a spree of bank robberies, but was pardoned for her crimes on Bill Clinton's last day in the White House. Unfazed, Mark goes on the search of the elusive Hearst.
Polly Matzinger
A former Playboy Bunny Girl is fast turning the world of immunology on its head much to the annoyance of some of her more established male colleagues. Polly Matzinger, who sports green hair, trains sheepdogs and has a love of country-and-western talks to Mark of her move from hostess to world-leading scientist.
Lara Croft
In the last of the series, Mark delves deep into the world of pixels, PCs and games industry pin-ups, in pursuit of the elusive virtual interview with the world's first virtual icon, Lara Croft. The somewhat controversial heroine of the computer game, Tomb Raider, might not be real, but there are individuals who believe she is. Blurring lines between fact and fiction, Mark encounters Croft's obsessive fans, her secretive creators, together with her critics.
And if you missed it you can also still listen to Mark's interview with the reclusive author Donna Tartt.
