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Radio 4,02 Jan 2015,28 mins

Debbie Purdy, David Ryall, Willy Burgdorfer, Dame Mary Glen Haig, Graeme Goodall

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Julian Worricker on Debbie Purdy, the right-to-die campaigner who won a landmark court ruling to clarify the law on assisted suicide. The actor, David Ryall, who had starring roles on stage, in film and on television. Dr Willy Burgdorfer, an entomologist who discovered the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Dame Mary Glen Haig, who fenced for Britain at four Olympic Games and then became one of the first women on the International Olympic Committee. And Graeme Goodall, the music producer and record label owner, who was a key figure in the early days of Jamaica's recording industry.

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