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Radio 4,04 Oct 2013,28 mins

A thriller writer, a musician, the Kabbalah Centre founder and a Hammer Horror producer

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Matthew Bannister on Tom Clancy, whose best selling thrillers spawned many blockbuster movies. He was endorsed by President Ronald Reagan. Lindsay Cooper, the avant garde woodwind player and composer. She was the bassoonist in the band Henry Cow. Rabbi Philip Berg who founded the Kabbalah Centre which attracted celebrity followers like Madonna and Demi Moore, but was criticised for commercialising Jewish mysticism. And Anthony Hinds the producer of Hammer Horror classics like "The Quatermass Experiment" and "The Curse of the Werewolf".

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