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Radio 4,21 Jun 2013,28 mins

An actor, a youth worker, a ballet dancer, a poet and a local radio presenter

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Matthew Bannister on The American actor James Gandolfini - best known for playing the mafia boss Tony Soprano. The youth worker Elizabeth Braund who transformed the lives of thousands of inner city children by inviting them to her working Dartmoor farm. The former principal dancer at the Royal Ballet David Wall - Deborah Bull pays tribute. The poet Oliver Bernard, last survivor of the Bohemian days of Soho. And Mark Turnbull - the blind presenter on BBC Tees, loved by his listeners but not always by his local managers, he became the President of the National Union of Journalists.

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