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Last Word: An astronomer, a sitar player, a surgeon, an engineer, a singer and a newsreader

An astronomer, a sitar player, a surgeon, an engineer, a singer and a newsreader

14/12/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, An astronomer, a sitar player, a surgeon, an engineer, a singer and a newsreader

Matthew Bannister on Ravi Shankar, Joseph Murray, Sir Patrick Moore and Alex Moulton.

Matthew Bannister on sitar player Ravi Shankar, transplant surgeon Joseph Murray, astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, bicycle designer Alex Moulton and folk singer Ian Campbell.

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The sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar who found fame in the West after collaborations with George Harrison and Yehudi Menuhin.

Joseph Murray - the American surgeon who carried out the world's first successful human organ transplant

The astronomer Sir Patrick Moore - Murray Lachlan Young pays tribute in verse.

The bicycle designer Alex Moulton

And the influential folk singer Ian Campbell - he's recalled by Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention and Mike Harding.

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