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Radio 4,15 Jun 2012,28 mins

Jean McFarlane, Phillip Tobias, Warda Al Jazairia, Barry Unsworth and Lee Rich

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Matthew Bannister on Lady Jean McFarlane who transformed the way nurses are trained in the UK; Philip Tobias, the South African paleoanthropologist who carried out pioneering research into the evolution of human beings - and fought apartheid; The North African diva Warda Al-Jazairia The Booker prize winning historical novelist Barry Unsworth And the influential American TV producer Lee Rich. His Lorimar Company brought us the Waltons and Dallas.

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