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Anne Scargill, Ronnie Appleton, Cecil Wright, Mario Vargas Llosa

Matthew Bannister on campaigner Anne Scargill, lawyer Ronnie Appleton, cricketer Cecil Wright and writer Mario Vargas Llosa.

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Anne Scargill, who founded the Women Against Pit Closures group when her husband Arthur was leading the Miners Strike of the 1980s. The actor Maxine Peake pays tribute.

Ronnie Appleton who was Chief Crown Prosecutor for Northern Ireland during the height of the troubles.

Cecil Wright, the Jamaican born cricketer who made his mark playing alongside some of his countrymen in the Lancashire league.

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel prize winning novelist who was a candidate for the Presidency of his native Peru.

Producer: Ed Prendeville

Archive:
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Manchester, Cecil Wright at 70, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½; ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News, Cecil Wright Retires at 85, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½; Not by The Playbook, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service, 07/09/2019; MERIDIAN, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 09/07/1985; Made in Latin America: 2 – The Heirs of Conquest, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two, 07/11/1989; Mario Vargas Llosa, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4, 30/10/1993; Eye of the Storm with Emma Barnett, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 5 Live, 26/07/2018; Video Diaries: Major, the Miners and Me, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two, 04/09/1993; ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One, 16/05/1984; ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One, 09/04/1993; Inside Ulster: Murders – Army; Funerals – I.R.A., ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 19/03/1988; Witness History, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service, 27/01/2025; Inside Ulster: Murders – Civilians (Multiple); Personalities, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 29/09/1989

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