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Radio 4,09 Dec 2011,30 mins
Dev Anand, Christopher Logue, Sócrates, Helen Forrester, Wilfred Lambert
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John Wilson on: Christopher Logue, the performance poet who translated ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r, wrote for Private Eye, and acted alongside Jonathan Pryce in Hamlet. Socrates - doctor of medicine, political activist and Brazilian World Cup captain. We hear about Professor Wilfred Lambert , a scholar whose unrivalled knowledge of ancient Babylonian languages helped unlock historical mysteries. Dev Anand - the matinee idol of Hindi cinema. And Helen Forrester who wrote about childhood poverty in Liverpool in the 1930s.
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