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Last Word

John Hopkins, Ena Baxter, Lord Gavron, Andre Brink, Charles Townes, Steve Strange

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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John "Hoppy" Hopkins - the photographer who played a pivotal role in the counter culture of the 1960s. He set up the underground magazine International Times and started the UFO club where Pink Floyd made their early appearances. Record producer Joe Boyd and poet Michael Horovitz pay tribute.

Also Ena Baxter the culinary creator behind the success of the Scottish family business Baxter's foods.

Lord Gavron, the Labour peer who made his fortune in the printing business.

Andre Brink, the dissident Afrikaans writer whose work was banned by South Africa's apartheid government.

And Charles Townes, the Nobel Prize winning physicist whose work paved the way for the invention of the laser. Show less

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Michael Horovitz
Interviewed Guest:
Joe Boyd
Interviewed Guest:
Maurice Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Jim Royan
Interviewed Guest:
Tessa Blackstone
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Moffett
Interviewed Guest:
Holly Townes
Interviewed Guest:
Ceri Brenner

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