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Last Word

Lillian Ross, Jalal Talabani, Terry Downes, Sybil Flory, Hedley Jones

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Julian Worricker on:

Lillian Ross, who wrote for the New Yorker, and created a new form of journalism....

The Iraqi president after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Jalal Talabani - a prominent Kurdish politician....

The boxer Terry Downes, who held the world middleweight title in the 1960s....

Sybil Flory, a seamstress who evaded the Japanese in 1941, and found her sister six decades later....

Hedley Jones, a Jamaican musician who designed and built the country's first sound systems....and traffic lights.... Show less

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Eric Homberger
Interviewed Guest:
Ellin Stein
Interviewed Guest:
Jiyar Gol
Interviewed Guest:
John McDonald
Interviewed Guest:
Derek Flory
Interviewed Guest:
David Katz

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