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Radio 4,25 Oct 2013,28 mins

A sculptor, a comedian, a social worker and Yugoslavia's First Lady

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Matthew Bannister on The sculptor Sir Anthony Caro - best known for his large and colourful abstract works placed directly on the ground. Also Jovanka Broz - the second world war partisan fighter who married the Yugoslavian dictator Marshall Tito - but was reduced to poverty after his death. Felix Dexter - the black comedian who made his name on the TV show The Real McCoy - and often satirised racial stereotyopes. And Professor Olive Stevenson - the leading social work academic who devoted herself to improving the safety of vulnerable chidren and adults.

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