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28/01/2011

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Matthew Bannister on Sargent Shriver, Reg Ward, Bhimsen Joshi and Jack Lalanne.

Matthew Bannister on Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver, Docklands Development leader Reg Ward, photographer Penny Tweedie and fitness king Jack Lalanne.

On Last Word this week:

Sargent Shriver - who married into the Kennedy family and founded the Peace Corps.

Reg Ward, who led the controversial regeneration of the London Docklands.

Penny Tweedie, the photographer who took a principled decision not to cover an execution in Bangladesh - John Pilger pays tribute.

The legendary Indian classical singer Bhimsen Joshi.

And America's fitness king - Jack Lalanne, who personally towed seventy boats one and a half miles through the water on his seventieth birthday.

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