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Factual: Life Stories

Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

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Last Word: 21/05/2010

21/05/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, 21/05/2010

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary programme.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary programme. This week features Major General Khattiya Sawasdipol, Professor Richard Gregory, Hank Jones, Alan Watkins and Pamela Green.

On Last Word this week
Major General Khattiya Sawasdipol - otherwise known as "Sae Daeng" or Red Commander. The flamboyant security chief of the red shirted anti-government protesters was shot dead in Bangkok last week.
Also Professor Richard Gregory, the eminent psychologist who increased our understanding of human perception
Hank Jones - the revered jazz pianist who played with most of the top names of the twentieth century
The political columnist Alan Watkins - one of the last greats of Fleet Street
And: never knowingly overdressed: the nude pin up of the fifties and sixties, Pamela Green.

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