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Last Word: Margaret Rule, Lord Mason, Dell Williams, Buddy Elias, Brian Couzens

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24/04/2015

Margaret Rule, Lord Mason, Dell Williams, Buddy Elias, Brian Couzens

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Margaret Rule, Lord Mason, Dell Williams, Buddy Elias, Brian Couzens

Matthew Bannister on an archaeologist, an MP, a sex shop founder and a record producer.

Matthew Bannister on archaeologist Margaret Rule, politician Lord Mason, sex shop founder Dell Williams, Anne Frank's cousin Buddy Elias and Chandos Records boss Brian Couzens.

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The archaeologist Margaret Rule who directed the raising of Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose from the sea bed.

Lord Mason - who as Labour MP Roy Mason was a tough Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Dell Williams who founded America's first sex boutique for women

Buddy Elias, Anne Frank's cousin and the president of the trust which managed her literary legacy.

And Brian Couzens who started the Chandos classical music record label and championed British composers.

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