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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: 10/12/2010

10/12/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, 10/12/2010

Matthew Bannister on Sir Peter Wakefield, Bill White, Douglas Argent and Peter Hofmann.

Matthew Bannister on diplomat Sir Peter Wakefield; TV comedy producer Douglas Argent; inventor of the neutron bomb Samuel Cohen and rock singer turned Wagnerian tenor Peter Hofmann.

On Last Word this week:
Sir Peter Wakefield, British diplomat in Cairo during the Suez crisis and in Libya during the coup which brought Colonel Gaddafi to power.
Bill White, who studied human skeletons to reveal our history, and kept hundreds of bones in his garage 
TV comedy producer and director Douglas Argent who brought us classics like "The Liver Birds" and "Till Death Us Do Part". Warren Mitchell pays tribute.
Samuel Cohen who invented the neutron bomb, which he described as a "sane and moral weapon".
And Peter Hofmann, the German tenor who made his name as a sexy Siegmund in Wagner's Ring, but made his money by covering easy listening standards.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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