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Last Word: Mala Sen, Willard Boyle, Lloyd Knibb, and the 7th Earl of Onslow

27/05/2011

Mala Sen, Willard Boyle, Lloyd Knibb, and the 7th Earl of Onslow

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Mala Sen, Willard Boyle, Lloyd Knibb, and the 7th Earl of Onslow

Matthew Bannister on Mala Sen, Willard Boyle, Lloyd Knibb, and the 7th Earl of Onslow.

Matthew Bannister on writer and activist Mala Sen, co-inventor of digital imaging Willard Boyle, pioneering ska drummer Lloyd Knibb and political maverick the 7th Earl of Onslow.

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The Indian born writer and activist Mala Sen, who campaigned for the rights of ethnic minority workers in the UK.

The nobel prize winning scientist Dr Willard Boyle, who invented the tiny charge couple device that is behind all digital imaging

Lloyd Knibb - the Jamaican drummer who came up with the ska beat.

The actor Edward Hardwicke best known for playing Dr Watson to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in the 1980s TV series

And the seventh Earl of Onslow, a political maverick and true British eccentric.

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