Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,940 playable programmes from the BBC

Last Word

Pete Seeger, Kathryn Findlay, Sir Robert Scholey, Sir Run Run Shaw

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Matthew Bannister on

The American folk singer and activist Pete Seeger. We've spoken to Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, his sister Peggy and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds.

Also: the architect Kathryn Findlay who worked on the Orbit Tower at the Olympic Park and created surreal space age houses in Japan.

Sir Bob Scholey who presided over the transformation of British Steel from loss making nationalised industry to profitable private company.

And Sir Run Run Shaw, the Hong Kong movie mogul whose studios produced nearly a thousand films.

Producer: Simon Tillotson. Show less

Contributors

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More