Last Word

BB King, Kenan Evren, Sir Maurice Flanagan, Maya Plisetskaya, Wally Kahn

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 15^th May 2015, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sun 17^th May 2015, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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B.B. King whose blues guitar took him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to international stardom.

Kenan Evran the Turkish general who took power in a military coup in 1980 and was later sentenced to life imprisonment.

Sir Maurice Flanagan who took Emirates Airlines from a two plane cargo operation to a multi billion dollar business.

The Soviet ballet star Maya Plisetskaya

And the glider pilot Wally Kahn who campaigned to make Lasham - an ex RAF base in Hampshire - into a world beating gliding club. Show less