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Radio 4,08 Jul 2011,30 mins
Otto von Habsburg, Cy Twombly, Anna Massey, Robin Nash and Robert Widmer
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John Wilson on The great American abstract expressionist painter Cy Twombly. Otto von Habsburg, the last heir to Austro-Hungarian empire who was exiled as a child and later became a campaigning MEP. Anna Massey, star of stage, screen - and Radio 4's This Sceptred Isle. Robert Widmer - inventor of the supersonic bomber. And Robin Nash, who directed some of BBC television's biggest hits - including Top of the Pops - is remembered by Tony Blackburn.
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