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Last Word: Felix Dennis, Norman Willis, Josephine Pullein-Thompson, Gerry Conlon, Eli Wallach

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27/06/2014

Felix Dennis, Norman Willis, Josephine Pullein-Thompson, Gerry Conlon, Eli Wallach

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Felix Dennis, Norman Willis, Josephine Pullein-Thompson, Gerry Conlon, Eli Wallach

Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a TUC leader, an author and one of the Guildford Four.

Matthew Bannister on publisher Felix Dennis, TUC leader Norman Willis, 'pony club' writer Josephine Pullein-Thompson, Guildford Four member Gerry Conlon, and actor Eli Wallach.

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The multi millionaire magazine publisher Felix Dennis. He was one of the defendants in the notorious Oz Trial in the 1970s, lived a life of excess and later revealed a talent for poetry.

Also the moderate TUC leader Norman Willis, who tried in vain to end the miners' strike.

The writer Josephine Pullein-Thompson whose tales of pony club life delighted generations of young girls.

Gerry Conlon - one of the Guildford Four who were wrongly convicted of carrying out an IRA bombing in 1974.

And the actor Eli Wallach, best known for appearances in The Magnificent Seven and The Good The Bad and The Ugly.

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