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Radio 4,02 Dec 2011,30 mins

Ken Russell, Gary Speed, Lana Peters and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu

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Matthew Bannister on The film director Ken Russell, once called the wild man of British cinema. Gary Speed, the Premiership and intetrnational footballer who managed the Welsh national side. The Nigerian soldier and politician Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who led the breakaway republic of Biafra with tragic results Stalin's daughter Svetlana, who defected to the West and had an ambivalent attitude to her father. And the operatic soprano Sena Jurinac.

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