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Radio 4,27 Jun 2014,28 mins

Felix Dennis, Norman Willis, Josephine Pullein-Thompson, Gerry Conlon, Eli Wallach

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Matthew Bannister on The multi millionaire magazine publisher Felix Dennis. He was one of the defendants in the notorious Oz Trial in the 1970s, lived a life of excess and later revealed a talent for poetry. Also the moderate TUC leader Norman Willis, who tried in vain to end the miners' strike. The writer Josephine Pullein-Thompson whose tales of pony club life delighted generations of young girls. Gerry Conlon - one of the Guildford Four who were wrongly convicted of carrying out an IRA bombing in 1974. And the actor Eli Wallach, best known for appearances in The Magnificent Seven and The Good The Bad and The Ugly.

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