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Radio 4,15 May 2015,28 mins

BB King, Kenan Evren, Sir Maurice Flanagan, Maya Plisetskaya, Wally Kahn

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Matthew Bannister on B.B. King whose blues guitar took him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to international stardom. Kenan Evran the Turkish general who took power in a military coup in 1980 and was later sentenced to life imprisonment. Sir Maurice Flanagan who took Emirates Airlines from a two plane cargo operation to a multi billion dollar business. The Soviet ballet star Maya Plisetskaya And the glider pilot Wally Kahn who campaigned to make Lasham - an ex RAF base in Hampshire - into a world beating gliding club.

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