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Factual: Life Stories

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

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Last Word: Sir Alastair Burnet, Jon Lord, Yaakov Meidad and Mike Westmacott

20/07/2012

Sir Alastair Burnet, Jon Lord, Yaakov Meidad and Mike Westmacott

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Sir Alastair Burnet, Jon Lord, Yaakov Meidad and Mike Westmacott

Matthew Bannister on Sir Alastair Burnet, Jon Lord, Yaakov Meidad and Mike Westmacott.

Matthew Bannister on TV newsreader and editor Sir Alastair Burnet, Deep Purple keyboard player Jon Lord, Mossad agent Yaakov Meidad and mountaineer Mike Westmacott.

Matthew Bannister on the ITN newsreader and journalist Sir Alastair Burnet, who presented News At Ten over nearly twenty five years

Jon Lord - keyboard player with Deep Purple. We have tributes from the band's guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and from Rick Wakeman

Yaakov Meidad - a Mossad agent involved in the kidnapping of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and the murder of the so called Butcher of Riga, Herberts Cukurs.

And Mike Westmacott the mountaineer who played a crucial role in the first ascent of Everest in 1953.

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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