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George Shearing, Derek Rawcliffe, Brian Jacques, Daniel Bell, TP McKenna

18/02/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, George Shearing, Derek Rawcliffe, Brian Jacques, Daniel Bell, TP McKenna

John Wilson on George Shearing, Derek Rawcliffe, Brian Jacques, Daniel Bell and TP McKenna

John Wilson on jazz musician George Shearing, Britain's first gay Bishop Derek Rawcliffe, children's author Brian Jacques, sociologist Daniel Bell and actor TP McKenna.

John Wilson presents Radio 4's obituary programme.

We retrace Sir George Shearing's jazz journey from Battersea to Birdland - pianist Julian Joseph demonstrates the secret of Shearing's keyboard technique.

The Right Reverend Derek Rawcliffe was known as Britain's first gay Bishop after he outed himself on Newsnight.

How former Liverpudlian milkman and docker Brian Jacques became one of the biggest selling children's authors in the world. 

Sociologist Daniel Bell's big ideas included a prediction of the internet - three decades before it was invented.

And how actor TP McKenna became a familiar face on stage on screen.

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