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Radio 4,09 Aug 2013,28 mins

A Falklands War admiral, a writer and rock musician, an engineer who developed fracking, a French actress, a folk singer

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Matthew Bannister on: Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward who led the naval task force to recapture the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians Mick Farren - the prolific writer, rock singer and revolutionary. We have tributes from Felix Dennis, Charles Shaar Murray and Julie Burchill Bernadette Lafont - the "wild child" star of French New Wave cinema George Mitchell - the Texan engineer who pioneered the controversial technique of fracking And Terry Conway - the road mender from Northumberland who wrote folk songs in the local dialect.

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