<p>Peter Pugh presents his selection of ? not the best, fastest, most successful or richest ? but the 50 most influential British men and women of the modern world ? for good or ill.<br><br><br>Pugh discusses and ranks the influence of scientists and inventors such as Francis Crick, John Logie Baird and Alan Turing; lawmakers and leaders like prime ministers Attlee, Churchill and Thatcher; entrepreneurs including James Dyson, Mary Quant and Teren...