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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: Jackie Leven, Evelyn Lauder, Dulcie Gray, Richard Scott, Jane Packer

18/11/2011

Jackie Leven, Evelyn Lauder, Dulcie Gray, Richard Scott, Jane Packer

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Jackie Leven, Evelyn Lauder, Dulcie Gray, Richard Scott, Jane Packer

Matthew Bannister on Jackie Leven, Evelyn Lauder, Dulcie Gray, Richard Scott, Jane Packer.

Matthew Bannister on singer-songwriter Jackie Leven, cosmetics executive Evelyn Lauder, actress Dulcie Gray, Guardian chairman Richard Scott and florist Jane Packer.

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The Scottish singer and songwriter Jackie Leven - front man of the band Doll By Doll, he became addicted to heroin after a mugging which damaged his windpipe. Ian Rankin pays tribute.

Evelyn Lauder, who married into the Estee Lauder cosmetics business and co-founded the pink ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign

The film and tv actress Dulcie Gray

Richard Scott, the chairman credited with saving the Guardian newspaper from merger with the Times in the 1960s 

And the florist Jane Packer. Sarah, Duchess of York pays tribute to Jane, who designed the flowers for her wedding to Prince Andrew.

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