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Radio 4,23 Aug 2013,28 mins

A writer, a lawyer, a motor racing team owner, an actress and an entrepreneur

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Aasmah Mir on Crime writer Elmore Leonard, whose pulp fiction inspired films like Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Jackie Brown. Rosalia Mera, co-founder of the Zara clothing chain and the richest self-made woman in the world. Controversial French lawyer Jacques Vergès, who famously defended Carlos the Jackal and Klaus Barbie. John Coombs - the last of the gentlemen racecar owners and the man who nurtured future champions like Sir Jackie Stewart. And actor Margaret Pellegrini who played a Munchkin in Wizard Of Oz.

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