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Last Word: Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Hurll, Jerome Horwitz, Harry Chambers, Eddie Bert

05/10/2012

Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Hurll, Jerome Horwitz, Harry Chambers, Eddie Bert

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Hurll, Jerome Horwitz, Harry Chambers, Eddie Bert

Matthew Bannister on Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Hurll, Jerome Horwitz and Harry Chambers.

Obituary series. Matthew Bannister on historian Eric Hobsbawm, TV producer Michael Hurll, AZT developer Jerome Horwitz, poetry publisher Harry Chambers, jazz trombonist Eddie Bert.

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The Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. We have tributes from Lord Kinnock and Eric's daughter Julia.

The TV producer Michael Hurll who was responsible for a string of light entertainment hits - Cilla Black and Ronnie Corbett recall working with him.

Dr Jerome Horwitz who developed the drug AZT as a treatment for cancer only to find 20 years later that it worked against HIV.

Harry Chambers who founded the respected publishing house: Peterloo Poets. Rosie Bailey pays tribute in verse.

And music from the jazz trombonist Eddie Bert who played alongside greats from Benny Goodman to Charles Mingus.

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