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Last Word: Lady Runcie, Wylie Vale, Israel Baker, Barry Reckord and Reginald Hill

20/01/2012

Lady Runcie, Wylie Vale, Israel Baker, Barry Reckord and Reginald Hill

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Lady Runcie, Wylie Vale, Israel Baker, Barry Reckord and Reginald Hill

Matthew Bannister on Lady Runcie, Wylie Vale, Israel Baker, Barry Reckord, Reginald Hill.

Matthew Bannister on endocrinologist Wylie Vale, archbishop's wife Lady Runcie, violinist Israel Baker, playwright Barry Reckord and crime novelist Reginald Hill.

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The unconventional wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lady Runcie

The endocrinologist Wylie Vale who discovered the hormone that governs our response to stress,

The violinist Israel Baker who played the searing music for the shower scene in Psycho

The pioneering black playwright Barry Reckord

And the crime novelist Reginald Hill, best known for creating Dalziel and Pascoe.

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