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Last Word: Dev Anand, Christopher Logue, Sócrates, Helen Forrester, Wilfred Lambert

Dev Anand, Christopher Logue, Sócrates, Helen Forrester, Wilfred Lambert

09/12/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Dev Anand, Christopher Logue, Sócrates, Helen Forrester, Wilfred Lambert

John Wilson on Dev Anand, Christopher Logue, Socrates, Helen Forrester and Wilfred Lambert

John Wilson on the poet Christopher Logue, cinema director Dev Anand, Brazilian footballer Socrates, ancient languages expert Professor Wilfred Lambert and author Helen Forrester.

John Wilson on:

Christopher Logue, the performance poet who translated Homer, 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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