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Radio 4,08 Jun 2012,28 mins

Ray Bradbury, Bob Edwards, Astrid Aghajanian and Herb Reed

Last Word

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Matthew Bannister on Ray Bradbury - the author of Fahrenheit 451 and countless short stories - who said libraries were his university. Fleet Street Editor Bob Edwards, who tangled with Lord Beaverbrook at the Express and Robert Maxwell at the Mirror Astrid Aghajanian - who survived the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire only to be sold into slavery by a bedouin And Herb Reed - the bass singer who co-founded the 1950s vocal group The Platters.

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