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Last Word: Ken Russell, Gary Speed, Lana Peters and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu

02/12/2011

Ken Russell, Gary Speed, Lana Peters and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu

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Matthew Bannister on Ken Russell, Gary Speed, Lana Peters and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.

Matthew Bannister on film director Ken Russell, football manager Gary Speed, Stalin's daughter Lana Peters, Biafran leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and soprano Sena Jurinac.

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The film director Ken Russell, once called the wild man of British cinema.

Gary Speed, the Premiership and intetrnational footballer who managed the Welsh national side.

The Nigerian soldier and politician Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who led the breakaway republic of Biafra with tragic results 

Stalin's daughter Svetlana, who defected to the West and had an ambivalent attitude to her father.

And the operatic soprano Sena Jurinac.

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