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Last Word: Nina Bawden, Tony Scott, Eileen Beasley and Scott McKenzie

24/08/2012

Nina Bawden, Tony Scott, Eileen Beasley and Scott McKenzie

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Nina Bawden, Tony Scott, Eileen Beasley and Scott McKenzie

Matthew Bannister on Nina Bawden, director Tony Scott, Eileen Beasley and Scott McKenzie.

Obituary series. Matthew Bannister on writer Nina Bawden, film director Tony Scott, Welsh language campaigner Eileen Beasley and singer Scott McKenzie.

Matthew Bannister on

The writer Nina Bawden, author of Carrie's War, The Peppermint Pig and many other acclaimed books for children and adults. Michael Morpurgo pays tribute.

The movie director Tony Scott, best known for action thrillers like Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Man on Fire.

The campaigner Eileen Beasley who refused to pay her rates until the bill was printed in the Welsh language. She was taken to court fourteen times and had her furniture confiscated.

And the singer Scott McKenzie who, in the sixties, urged us all to go to San Francisco with flowers in our hair.

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