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Radio 4,11 Mar 2011,30 mins

Cyril Stein, Alberto Granado, Rachel Cameron and Anthony Brooke

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Matthew Bannister remembers: Cyril Stein, who built up Ladbrokes from one betting shop to a multi-billion pound business. Alberto Granado who travelled with Che Guevara on his famous motorcycle journey across South America. Rachel Cameron - doyen of ballet teachers - who passed on the ideas of Diaghilev. Necmettin Erbakan, Turkey's first Islamist prime minister. And the last white Rajah of Sarawak - Anthony Brooke.

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