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Radio 4,02 Sep 2011,30 mins
John McAleese, NF Simpson, Stetson Kennedy and David Honeyboy Edwards
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Matthew Bannister on SAS soldier John McAleese who led one of the teams that stormed the Iranian Embassy in 1980. The surreal playwright NF Simpson who influenced a generation of British comedy talent. Stetson Kennedy, who went undercover to expose the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. George Band, one of two pioneering climbers who first conquered the world's third highest mountain, Kanchenjunga. And David Honeyboy Edwards, last surviving link to the original blues players of the Mississippi Delta.
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