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Radio 4,05 Apr 2013,28 mins
A screenwriter, a champagne maker, a learning disabilities campaigner, a president, a Welsh poet and a music producer
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Matthew Bannister on: The novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who won the Booker prize for Heat and Dust - and Oscars for two of her Merchant Ivory scripts. James Ivory pays tribute. Henri Krug who led the blending process that made his family's acclaimed champagne. Mabel Cooper - who spent the first thirty years of her life in institutions, but later became a campaigner for the rights of people with learning disabilities. The Liberian politician Moses Blah - vice President under Charles Taylor - and briefly President himself in the handover to a transitional government. And Anthony Conran the Welsh poet who was born with cerebral palsy.
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