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Last Word: Cynthia Lennon, Anthony Scrivener, Martyn Goff, John Renbourn

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03/04/2015

Cynthia Lennon, Anthony Scrivener, Martyn Goff, John Renbourn

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Cynthia Lennon, Anthony Scrivener, Martyn Goff, John Renbourn

Julian Worricker on a Beatles wife, a barrister, a musician and the man behind the Booker.

Obituaries. Julian Worricker on Cynthia Lennon, first wife of John; barrister Anthony Scrivener; the man behind the Booker prize, Martyn Goff; and folk guitarist John Renbourn.

Julian Worricker on:

The first wife of John Lennon, Cynthia, who met him before he was famous; their relationship endured through the early days of the Beatles but foundered when he met Yoko Ono

Anthony Scrivener QC, whose high-profile clients included Gerald Conlon of the Guildford 4, Dame Shirley Porter, and the Norfolk farmer, Tony Martin

Martyn Goff, the man credited with persuading the Booker Brothers to sponsor a new literary prize in the late 1960s

And the folk guitarist, John Renbourn, who rose to fame in the 1960s and 70s in the jazz-folk band, Pentangle.

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