英语听力精选进阶版 14611（在线收听）

Osama bin Laden, Admiral Sir Henry Leach, Sir Henry Cooper, Hubert Schlafly and Arthur Laurents.

Fri, 6 May 11

Radio 4's obituary programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have recently died. This week: face to face with Osama Bin Laden. Matthew Bannister talks to three men who met the leader of Al Quaeda. Also: Admiral Sir Henry Leach, the First Sea Lord who persuaded Margaret Thatcher to send a task force to re-take the Falkland Islands. Sir Henry Cooper, who had a successful track record as a heavyweight boxer but is best remembered for a fight against Cassius Clay that he lost.Hubert Schlafly – the television pioneer who came up with the teleprompter machine. And Arthur Laurents author and screenwriter whose best known works were the musicals West Side Story and Gypsy.