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Last Word: Vlasta Dalibor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Dr Robert Acland, Asa Briggs, Barry Hines, Johan Cruyff

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25/03/2016

Vlasta Dalibor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Dr Robert Acland, Asa Briggs, Barry Hines, Johan Cruyff

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Vlasta Dalibor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Dr Robert Acland, Asa Briggs, Barry Hines, Johan Cruyff

Julian Worricker on a conductor, surgeon, puppeteer, writer, footballer and a historian.

Julian Worricker on historian Asa Briggs, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, puppeteer Vlasta Dalibor, surgeon Robert Acland, writer Barry Hines and footballer Johan Cruyff.

Julian Worricker on:

Asa Briggs, social historian and university administrator, who wrote a five-volume history of the BBC.

Austrian conductor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, famed for his pursuit of authenticity in both early and modern music.

Vlasta Dalibor, co-creator of Pinky and Perky.

Professor Robert Acland, a pioneer of microsurgery in both Britain and America.

Barry Hines, the author and screenwriter, who adapted his novel A Kestrel for a Knave into the film 'Kes'.

And....one of football's greatest players and most successful managers, Johan Cruyff.

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