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Last Word: David Storey, Ahmed Kathrada, Barbara Buss, Aloysius 'Lucky' Gordon

David Storey, Ahmed Kathrada, Barbara Buss, Aloysius 'Lucky' Gordon

31/03/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, David Storey, Ahmed Kathrada, Barbara Buss, Aloysius 'Lucky' Gordon

Matthew Bannister on a writer, an activist, an editor, a drug dealer.

Matthew Bannister on writer David Storey, anti apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, editor Barbara Buss, drug dealer Lucky Gordon.

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Playwright and novelist David Storey who drew on his experiences as a professional rugby league player in some of his work. 

The South African anti apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada who spent twenty six years in prison with Nelson Mandela and then became his parliamentary adviser.

Barbara Buss who edited Woman Magazine in its 1970s heyday.

And Lucky Gordon, the drug dealer, jazz singer and cook whose brief relationship with Christine Keeler led to the uncovering of the Profumo Affair in the 1960s. 

Producer: Neil George.

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