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Radio 4,03 Jun 2011,30 mins

Dame Barbara Mills, Gil Scott-Heron, Leonora Carrington, Flick Colby

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Matthew Bannister on: Dame Barbara Mills QC, the successful barrister who became the first woman Director of Public Prosecutions. The poet and singer Gil Scott-Heron who gave voice to the black American experience. The surrealist artist Leonora Carrington who scandalised her father by running away with Max Ernst and became a national treasure in Mexico. And Flick Colby who choreographed Pans People's weekly routines on Top of the Pops. We have a tribute from Babs.

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