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Last Word: A thriller writer, a musician, the Kabbalah Centre founder and a Hammer Horror producer

A thriller writer, a musician, the Kabbalah Centre founder and a Hammer Horror producer

04/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, A thriller writer, a musician, the Kabbalah Centre founder and a Hammer Horror producer

Matthew Bannister on Tom Clancy, Lindsay Cooper, Rabbi Philip Berg and Anthony Hinds.

Obituaries. Matthew Bannister remembers thriller writer Tom Clancy, musician Lindsay Cooper, Kabbalah Centre founder Rabbi Philip Berg and Hammer Horror producer Anthony Hinds.

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Tom Clancy, whose best selling thrillers spawned many blockbuster movies. He was endorsed by President Ronald Reagan.

Lindsay Cooper, the avant garde woodwind player and composer. She was the bassoonist in the band Henry Cow. 

Rabbi Philip Berg who founded the Kabbalah Centre which attracted celebrity followers like Madonna and Demi Moore, but was criticised for commercialising Jewish mysticism.

And Anthony Hinds the producer of Hammer Horror classics like "The Quatermass Experiment" and "The Curse of the Werewolf".

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