Glenn Frey, Lord Weidenfeld, Jeanne Cordova, Haskell Wexler, Gilbert Kaplan. - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

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Glenn Frey - singer, guitarist and songwriter with The Eagles - who sold millions of albums in the 1970s.



Lord Weidenfeld, the influential publisher, party giver and networker - and, in later life, rescuer of Christians from Syria and Iraq.



The writer and activist Jeanne Cordova - a former nun who campaigned for lesbian rights.



Haskell Wexler, the cinematographer who won an Oscar for the film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?".



And Gilbert Kaplan, the multi millionaire businessman who conducted Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony more than a hundred times.

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