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Last Word: BB King, Kenan Evren, Sir Maurice Flanagan, Maya Plisetskaya, Wally Kahn

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15/05/2015

BB King, Kenan Evren, Sir Maurice Flanagan, Maya Plisetskaya, Wally Kahn

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, BB King, Kenan Evren, Sir Maurice Flanagan, Maya Plisetskaya, Wally Kahn

Matthew Bannister on a bluesman, a general, an airline boss, a dancer and a glider pilot.

Matthew Bannister on blues guitarist BB King, Turkish president Kenan Evren, Emirates Airline founder Sir Maurice Flanagan, ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and glider pilot Wally Kahn.

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B.B. King whose blues guitar took him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to international stardom.

Kenan Evran the Turkish general who took power in a military coup in 1980 and was later sentenced to life imprisonment.

Sir Maurice Flanagan who took Emirates Airlines from a two plane cargo operation to a multi billion dollar business.

The Soviet ballet star Maya Plisetskaya

And the glider pilot Wally Kahn who campaigned to make Lasham - an ex RAF base in Hampshire - into a world beating gliding club.

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