Sir Alastair Burnet, Jon Lord, Yaakov Meidad and Mike Westmacott
Matthew Bannister on TV newsreader and editor Sir Alastair Burnet, Deep Purple keyboard player Jon Lord, Mossad agent Yaakov Meidad and mountaineer Mike Westmacott.
Matthew Bannister on the ITN newsreader and journalist Sir Alastair Burnet, who presented News At Ten over nearly twenty five years
Jon Lord - keyboard player with Deep Purple. We have tributes from the band's guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and from Rick Wakeman
Yaakov Meidad - a Mossad agent involved in the kidnapping of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and the murder of the so called Butcher of Riga, Herberts Cukurs.
And Mike Westmacott the mountaineer who played a crucial role in the first ascent of Everest in 1953.
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