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Last Word: Verghese Kurien, Helen Nicoll, Bobby Hogg, Tereska Torres, 'Big Jim' Sullivan

12/10/2012

Verghese Kurien, Helen Nicoll, Bobby Hogg, Tereska Torres, 'Big Jim' Sullivan

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Verghese Kurien, Helen Nicoll, Bobby Hogg, Tereska Torres, 'Big Jim' Sullivan

Matthew Bannister on India's milkman, a lost dialect, and two contrasting women writers.

Matthew Bannister on 'India's Milkman' Verghese Kurien, children's author Helen Nicoll, Cromarty speaker Bobby Hogg, wartime writer Tereska Torres and guitarist 'Big Jim' Sullivan.

Matthew Bannister on

Dr Verghese Kurien. Known as "India's Milkman", he transformed milk production in India by setting up co-operatives of small farmers.

Helen Nicoll - the children's author best known for her Meg and Mog stories. Her illustrator Jan Pienkowski pays tribute.

Bobby Hogg - the last surviving speaker of the Cromarty dialect which was used in parts of the Black Isle near Inverness.

The French writer Tereska Torres whose novel about wartime romances caused controversy with its depiction of lesbian affairs 

And session guitarist "Big Jim" Sullivan who played on an amazing 55 number one songs.

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