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25/03/2011

Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Christopher, Fred Titmus and Jet Harris

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Christopher, Fred Titmus and Jet Harris

Matthew Bannister on Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Christopher, Fred Titmus and Jet Harris.

Matthew Bannister on the movie icon Elizabeth Taylor, former US Secretary of State Warren Christopher, spin bowler Fred Titmus and the Shadows' bassist Jet Harris.

Matthew Bannister remembers:

Elizabeth Taylor - we assess her as movie actress, sex symbol and celebrity icon. We have memories from Richard Burton's nephew and the playwright David Wood who appeared alongside Burton and Taylor in an Oxford student production of Dr Faustus. 

Also Warren Christopher, the American Secretary of State under Bill Clinton - Lord Hurd pays tribute.

Middlesex and England bowler Fred Titmus, who lost some of his toes in a boating accident, but was playing again within weeks.

And Jet Harris of the Shadows - said to be the first person in the UK to play an electric bass guitar.

Producer: Paul Kobrak.

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