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Last Word: Wangari Maathai, David Croft, Gusty Spence, Carl Wood

30/09/2011

Wangari Maathai, David Croft, Gusty Spence, Carl Wood

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Wangari Maathai, David Croft, Gusty Spence, Carl Wood

Matthew Bannister on Wangari Maathai, David Croft, Gusty Spence and Carl Wood.

Matthew Bannister on Kenyan human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai, TV comedy writer and producer David Croft, Ulster loyalist leader Gusty Spence and IVF pioneer Carl Wood.

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The Kenyan human rights and environmental campaigner Wangari Maathai who became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace prize in 2004 

The writer and producer David Croft, who brought us some of TV's best loved comedies, including Dad's Army, Are You Being Served and Hi De Hi.

The former leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Gusty Spence, who turned his back on violence while serving an eighteen year prison sentence for murder

And the Australian pioneer of in vitro fertilisation, Professor Carl Wood.

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