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Radio 4,20 Sep 2013,28 mins

An RAF air marshal, a cancer care centre founder, a chocolate maker, a singer and a broadcaster

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Matthew Bannister on Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss who led the challenging RAF operation to re-take the Falkland Islands. Pat Pilkington, co-founder of the Bristol Cancer Care Centre which offers complementary and holistic treatments Brian Sollitt - the master chocolate maker who invented the After Eight Mint Joan Regan - the Fifties singer who performed alongside Russ Conway, Max Bygraves and Cliff Richard - he pays tribute. And the broadcaster Tom Vernon, best known for his programmes: "Fat Man On A Bicycle".

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