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Last Word: Sir Peter Shaffer, Sir Denys Wilkinson, Peggy Spencer and Muhammad Ali

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10/06/2016

Sir Peter Shaffer, Sir Denys Wilkinson, Peggy Spencer and Muhammad Ali

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Sir Peter Shaffer, Sir Denys Wilkinson, Peggy Spencer and Muhammad Ali

Julian Worricker on a playwright, a physicist, a dancer and a boxer.

Julian Worricker on playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, physicist Sir Denys Wilkinson, dancer Peggy Spencer and boxer Muhammad Ali.

Julian Worricker on:

The playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, most famous for 'The Royal Hunt of the Sun, 'Equus' and 'Amadeus'...

The physicist, Sir Denys Wilkinson, considered an expert on the electromagnetic properties of nuclear isotopes...

The dancer, Peggy Spencer - also a choreographer, adjudicator and dance event organiser...

And the man voted the sportsman of the last century, heavyweight boxer and civil rights campaigner, Muhammad Ali.

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