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Aasmah Mir

Neil George

Last Word: A Buddhist leader, a cookery writer, a Motown stylist, an Australian criminal and a whisky distiller

A Buddhist leader, a cookery writer, a Motown stylist, an Australian criminal and a whisky distiller

18/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, A Buddhist leader, a cookery writer, a Motown stylist, an Australian criminal and a whisky distiller

Aasmah Mir on Choje Akong Rinpoche, Marcella Hazan, Maxine Powell and Mark 'Chopper' Read.

Aasmah Mir on Buddhist leader Choje Akong Rinpoche, Motown's Maxine Powell, food writer Marcella Hazan, Australian criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and whisky distiller Charles Craig.

Aasmah Mir on Tibetan Buddhist Choje Akong Rinpoche who founded the first monastery in the West.

Also: cookery writer and teacher Marcella Hazan who introduced authentic Italian cooking to Americans in the 1970s and 1980s.

The woman who taught early Motown artists how to walk and what to wear - Maxine Powell

Mark 'Chopper' Read - the Australian criminal and author whose autobiography was turned in to a hit film in 2000

And the best-trained 'nose' in Britain - Charles Craig, successful distiller of Scotch whisky

Producer: Neil George.

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