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Radio 4,24 Jun 2011,30 mins

Brian Haw, Mike Waterson, Yelena Bonner and Mietek Pemper

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Matthew Bannister on Brian Haw - the anti war protester who camped in Parliament Square for ten years; Mike Waterson who made singing traditional British music a family affair; Yelena Bonner - wife of the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov - and campaigner in her own right Mietek Pemper - the Jewish secretary who helped to type Schindler's List and saved thousands from the gas chamber And Gunnar Fischer - the cinematographer who gave the films of Ingmar Bergman their distinctive look.

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