Sir Richard Sykes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1996-2000 by BBC

Dec 5, 199938:37Society & Culture

Sue Lawley's guest this week is Sir Richard Sykes. The chairman of Glaxo Welcome, as a boy he was not a natural scholar, until he went to work at the pathology laboratory of his local hospital. Understanding the applicat...

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