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Last Word: Alfredo Di Stefano, Eduard Shevardnadze, Ultra Violet, Chester Nez and Horace Silver

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11/07/2014

Alfredo Di Stefano, Eduard Shevardnadze, Ultra Violet, Chester Nez and Horace Silver

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Alfredo Di Stefano, Eduard Shevardnadze, Ultra Violet, Chester Nez and Horace Silver

Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a Georgian politician, an artist and a code talker.

Matthew Bannister on footballer Alfredo Di Stefano, Soviet foreign secretary Eduard Shevardnadze, artist Ultra Violet, code talker Chester Nez and jazz musician Horace Silver.

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The Argentinian-born footballer Alfredo Di Stefano. Some say he was the greatest player of all time, leading Real Madrid to successive European Cup victories and scoring an amazing 800 goals.

The former Soviet Foreign Secretary and Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. He was the leading ally of Mikhail Gorbachev in liberalising Russia's relations with the West.

Also the artist Ultra Violet - one of Andy Warhol's Factory superstars.

Chester Nez, one of the Navajo Indians used by the American military to create an unbreakable wartime code.

Horace Silver, the influential jazz pianist, composer and bandleader. Julian Joseph pays tribute at the piano.

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