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Last Word: Garret FitzGerald, Pam Gems, Elisabeth Svendsen, Ernesto Sabato, Bernard Greenhouse

20/05/2011

Garret FitzGerald, Pam Gems, Elisabeth Svendsen, Ernesto Sabato, Bernard Greenhouse

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Garret FitzGerald, Pam Gems, Elisabeth Svendsen, Ernesto Sabato, Bernard Greenhouse

Matthew Bannister on Garret FitzGerald, Pam Gems, Elisabeth Svendsen and Ernesto Sabato.

Matthew Bannister on former Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald, playwright Pam Gems, founder of the Donkey Sanctuary Elisabeth Svendsen, and Argentinian writer Ernesto Sabato.

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The former Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald. He helped persuade Margaret Thatcher to sign the Anglo Irish agreement which paved the way for power sharing in Northern Ireland.

Also the playwright Pam Gems - whose best known works are Piaf and Stanley. Sir Antony Sher pays tribute.

Elisabeth Svendsen who founded the Donkey Sanctuary charity after being left 204 donkeys in someone's will.

Ernesto Sabato the Argentinian writer who led the country's investigation into the thousands who disappeared under military dictatorship.

And Bernard Greenhouse, cellist and co founder of the world famous Beaux Arts Trio.

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