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

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Last Word: 13/08/2010

13/08/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, 13/08/2010

Matthew Bannister on Patricia Neal, Jack Parnell, Jimmy Reid and Professor Tony Judt.

Matthew Bannister hosts Radio 4's obituary programme and remembers historian Professor Tony Judt, actress Patricia Neal, union leader Jimmy Reid, and jazz drummer Jack Parnell.

On Last Word this week:

Professor Tony Judt the leading historian and political thinker who wrote eloquently about his struggle with motor neurone disease

The Hollywood actress Patricia Neal who suffered a series of strokes and was nursed back to health by her husband Roald Dahl

The Glasgow union leader Jimmy Reid who led a "work in" to save the Clyde shipyards from closure

And the jazz and swing drummer Jack Parnell, a star of the Ted Heath Band and conductor of the music for the Muppets.

Producer: Neil George.

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