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Radio 4,18 Mar 2011,30 mins

Donny George, Owsley Stanley, Harold Massingham and Bob Greaves

Last Word

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On Last Word this week: Donny George - the archaeologist who tried to stop looters ransacking the Iraqi national museum after the invasion of 2003.. Owsley Stanley who supplied more than one million tablets of LSD to San Francisco hippies and designed the Grateful Dead's sound system. Yorkshire poet Harold Massingham - Ian Macmillan pays tribute. Local TV news presenter Bob Greaves who was immortalised when an elephant got a little too intimate with him on screen And Hugh Martin, composer of classic songs, including "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Producer: Neil George.

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