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Radio 4,10 Aug 2012,28 mins

Robert Hughes, Sir Bernard Lovell, Lakshmi Sehgal, Sir John Keegan and Franz West

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Matthew Bannister on the pugnacious Australian art critic Robert Hughes, who presented the acclaimed TV series Shock of The New. The astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell who led the building of the enormous radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Doctor Lakshmi Sehgal, the Indian independence campaigner who raised a regiment of women to fight against the British during the second world war The military historian and Reith Lecturer Sir John Keegan And the controversial Austrian artist Franz West who built giant colourful sculptures and invited the public to climb on them.

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