Gabriel García Márquez, Edna Doré, Richard Hoggart, Gerardo D'Ambrosio, John Shirley-Quirk

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Julian Worricker on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel prize-winning Colombian author, best known for 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. The television, stage and film actress, Edna Doré, who played Mo Butcher in 'Eastenders'. Richard Hoggart, writer and cultural commentator, whose book 'The Uses of Literacy' was regarded as hugely influential in the immediate post-war era. Gerardo D'Ambrosio, the magistrate, who led investigations into terror attacks, financial malpractice and systematic corruption in his native Italy. John Shirley-Quirk, the bass-baritone singer whose talents proved an inspiration to Benjamin Britten.