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As 2016 draws to a close, Roy Jenkins looks back at some of the rich variety of people who have featured on All Things Considered in the past year. Despite their diversity, they all have one thing in common. 聽They have been willing to share something of themselves with us, offer a glimpse of what makes them tick, describe some of their struggles, their hopes, their fears, their opinions.

Astrophysicist Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell is now widely regarded as one of the world鈥檚 leading scientists. But it was as a 24-year-old postgraduate student, that she made one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the late twentieth century. 聽

Her work resulted in the identification of the spinning neutron stars known as pulsars, and is reckoned to have changed the way we see the universe. It also led to the award of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics - perversely not to her, but to her two male supervisors at the University of Cambridge.聽聽
A lifelong Quaker, Jocelyn Bell Burnell seems to be remarkably free of bitterness about the whole episode, and she talked to Roy about how the groundbreaking discovery had come about. 聽Jocelyn Bell-Burnell鈥檚 work might not have received the Nobel Prize it deserved but it鈥檚 since been honoured by countless accolades and awards. 聽But how does it feel when you are denied the chance to work?聽

In a programme on work and identity, Peter Acreman, now part-time manager of a Cardiff charity shop, shared his personal story of being unemployed.

Dame Julia Cleverdon has managed to co-opt many leading figures 聽to campaigns from promoting literacy and improving life chances to regenerating whole communities. 聽聽