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Radio 4,17 Nov 2017,28 mins

Lord Hutchinson of Lullington QC, Linda Nochlin, Dennis Banks, Geoff Tootill, Tim Gudgin

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Matthew Bannister on Lord Hutchinson of Lullington, the barrister who appeared in many celebrated cases, including defending the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover and the director of the play Romans In Britain and securing the acquittal of Howard Marks on drug smuggling charges. Linda Nochlin the feminist art historian who wrote a celebrated article in the 1970s entitled "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Dennis Banks the Native American activist who campaigned for the rights of his people and took part in the siege of Wounded Knee. Geoff Tootill, who helped to design the world's first stored-programme computer, known as "Baby".

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