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Radio 4,23 Oct 2015,28 mins

General John Galvin, Joan Leslie, Michael Meacher, Howard Kendall, Jerry Parr and Coleridge Goode

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Matthew Bannister on General Jack Galvin who was NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe as the Cold War ended. Generals Colin Powell and David Petraeus pay tribute. Joan Leslie - the Hollywood star who made forty films in ten years. Michael Meacher - the former Environment minister once described by Neil Kinnock as "Tony Benn's vicar on earth." The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joins us. Howard Kendall - Everton football club's most successful manager. Gary Lineker remembers playing under him. Jerry Parr - the secret service agent who saved President Ronald Reagan's life when he was shot.

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