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Radio 4,25 Mar 2016,28 mins

Vlasta Dalibor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Dr Robert Acland, Asa Briggs, Barry Hines, Johan Cruyff

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Julian Worricker on: Asa Briggs, social historian and university administrator, who wrote a five-volume history of the BBC. Austrian conductor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, famed for his pursuit of authenticity in both early and modern music. Vlasta Dalibor, co-creator of Pinky and Perky. Professor Robert Acland, a pioneer of microsurgery in both Britain and America. Barry Hines, the author and screenwriter, who adapted his novel A Kestrel for a Knave into the film 'Kes'. And....one of football's greatest players and most successful managers, Johan Cruyff.

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