Lord Brittan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Professor John Bayley, Anne Kirkbride

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Matthew Bannister on The former Tory Home Secretary Lord Brittan. As Leon Brittan, he also served as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and as a European Commissioner. Also: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. He was the thirteenth of at least forty-five sons of the founder of modern Saudi Arabia and seen as a cautious reformer. John Bayley, the eccentric Oxford don whose memoir of his life with the novelist Iris Murdoch was made into a film. And Anne Kirkbride the actress who played Deirdre in Coronation Street for more than forty years.