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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

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Last Word: Otto von Habsburg, Cy Twombly, Anna Massey, Robin Nash and Robert Widmer

Otto von Habsburg, Cy Twombly, Anna Massey, Robin Nash and Robert Widmer

08/07/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Otto von Habsburg, Cy Twombly, Anna Massey, Robin Nash and Robert Widmer

John Wilson on Otto van Habsburg, Cy Twombly, Anna Massey, Robin Nash and Robert Widmer.

John Wilson on Archduke Otto van Habsburg, American artist Cy Twombly, British actress Anna Massey, tv producer Robin Nash and aircraft engineer Robert Widmer.

John Wilson on 

The great American abstract expressionist painter Cy Twombly.

Otto von Habsburg, the last heir to Austro-Hungarian empire who was exiled as a child and later became a campaigning MEP.

Anna Massey, star of stage, screen - and Radio 4's This Sceptred Isle. 

Robert Widmer - inventor of the supersonic bomber. 

And Robin Nash, who directed some of BBC television's biggest hits - including Top of the Pops - is remembered by Tony Blackburn.

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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