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Radio 4,04 Apr 2014,28 mins

Margo MacDonald, Frankie Knuckles, Lorna Arnold, Kate O'Mara, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah

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Matthew Bannister on Margo Macdonald, the leading Scottish politician who fell out with the SNP and became an independent MSP. She also presented programmes here on Radio 4. The American DJ Frankie Knuckles who was known as "The Godfather of House Music"; Lorna Arnold, the official historian of Britain's nuclear industry; Kate O'Mara, the actress best known for her roles in Dynasty and Howard's Way; and the former President of Sierra Leone, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who negotiated an end to the country's bloody civil war.

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