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Last Word: John Hopkins, Ena Baxter, Lord Gavron, Andre Brink, Charles Townes, Steve Strange

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13/02/2015

John Hopkins, Ena Baxter, Lord Gavron, Andre Brink, Charles Townes, Steve Strange

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, John Hopkins, Ena Baxter, Lord Gavron, Andre Brink, Charles Townes, Steve Strange

Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a cook, a businessman, a writer and a physicist.

Matthew Bannister talks about photographer and cutural catalyst John 'Hoppy' Hopkins, cook Ena Baxter, businessman Lord Gavron, writer Andre Brink and physicist Charles Townes.

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John "Hoppy" Hopkins - the photographer who played a pivotal role in the counter culture of the 1960s. He set up the underground magazine International Times and started the UFO club where Pink Floyd made their early appearances. Record producer Joe Boyd and poet Michael Horovitz pay tribute.

Also Ena Baxter the culinary creator behind the success of the Scottish family business Baxter's foods.

Lord Gavron, the Labour peer who made his fortune in the printing business.

Andre Brink, the dissident Afrikaans writer whose work was banned by South Africa's apartheid government.

And Charles Townes, the Nobel Prize winning physicist whose work paved the way for the invention of the laser.

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