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Radio 4,03 Jun 2016,28 mins

Carla Lane, Sir Denys Henderson, Jane Fawcett, Alan Devereux and Buster Cooper

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Matthew Bannister on Carla Lane who wrote hit TV comedies including The Liver Birds, Bread and Butterflies. Wendy Craig pays tribute. The ICI Chairman Sir Denys Henderson, who fought off a takeover bid from Lord Hanson and split the company into two parts. Jane Fawcett, the former debutante who worked with the code-breakers at Bletchley Park and then fought to conserve many of Britain's greatest Victorian buildings. And Alan Devereux who for nearly fifty years played Sid Perks in the Archers.

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