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Radio 4,16 Aug 2013,28 mins

A Holocaust activist, a Hollywood actress, a jazz keyboardist, a stuntman and a tugboat hero

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Aasmah Mir on Betty Maxwell, the widow of the late publisher Robert Maxwell The stuntman who parachuted in to the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, Mark Sutton Karen Black, star of Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider and Airport 75 Kenneth Dancy, the tugboat hero who attempted to save the stricken freighter Flying Enterprise in 1952 And innovative and flamboyant jazz keyboardist George Duke.

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