A Buddhist leader, a cookery writer, a Motown stylist, an Australian criminal and a whisky distiller

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Aasmah Mir on Tibetan Buddhist Choje Akong Rinpoche who founded the first monastery in the West. Also: cookery writer and teacher Marcella Hazan who introduced authentic Italian cooking to Americans in the 1970s and 1980s. The woman who taught early Motown artists how to walk and what to wear - Maxine Powell Mark 'Chopper' Read - the Australian criminal and author whose autobiography was turned in to a hit film in 2000 And the best-trained 'nose' in Britain - Charles Craig, successful distiller of Scotch whisky Producer: Neil George.