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Last Word

Lady Mary Soames, Gordon Willis, Clyde Snow, Count Suckle

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Matthew Bannister on

Lady Mary Soames, the daughter of Winston Churchill. She witnessed some of the key political moments of the second world war, wrote an acclaimed biography of her mother and chaired the National Theatre. Her own daughter Emma Soames and Sir Richard Eyre pay tribute.

Also:

Gordon Willis, the cinematographer on classic films like The Godfather, Annie Hall and Klute.

Clyde Snow, the forensic anthropologist who exhumed the mass graves of the "disappeared" in Argentina.

And Count Suckle the Jamaican born sound system pioneer who influenced a generation of British blues and soul musicians.

Presenter: Matthew Bannister
Producer: Steven Williams. Show less

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Emma Soames
Interviewed Guest:
David Reynolds
Interviewed Guest:
Ian Christie
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Joyce
Interviewed Guest:
Luis Fondebrider
Interviewed Guest:
David Katz

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