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Radio 4,29 Sep 2017,28 mins

Hugh Hefner, Stanislav Petrov, Teddy Taylor, Liz Dawn

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Matthew Bannister on Hugh Hefner who built the Playboy empire on a best selling magazine. Was he a libertarian who changed attitudes to sex or a sleazy pornographer? Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov who is credited with averting a nuclear disaster during the Cold War. The right wing Conservative M.P. Teddy Taylor best known for his outspoken opposition to the European Union. And actress Liz Dawn who played Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street for nearly thirty years.

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