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Radio 4,14 Dec 2012,28 mins

An astronomer, a sitar player, a surgeon, an engineer, a singer and a newsreader

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Matthew Bannister on The sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar who found fame in the West after collaborations with George Harrison and Yehudi Menuhin. Joseph Murray - the American surgeon who carried out the world's first successful human organ transplant The astronomer Sir Patrick Moore - Murray Lachlan Young pays tribute in verse. The bicycle designer Alex Moulton And the influential folk singer Ian Campbell - he's recalled by Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention and Mike Harding.

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