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26/11/2010
Matthew Bannister on the Hammer Horror actress Ingrid Pitt, the foreign correspondent John Bulloch, the furniture designer Robin Day and the turkey farmer Bernard Matthews.
On Last Word this week:
Ingrid Pitt - best known as a voluptuous vampire in Hammer Horror films.
Foreign correspondent John Bulloch - an expert on the Middle East who worked in war zones around the world.
The furniture designer Robin Day who produced the polyprop stacking chair which sold in millions around the world.
Professor Dudley Williams whose work on antibiotics helped to tackle the superbug MRSA.
And Bernard Matthews, the Norfolk Turkey farmer whose catch phrase "It's Bootiful" made him a household name.
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