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Matthew Bannister

Laura Northedge

Last Word: A screenwriter, a champagne maker, a learning disabilities campaigner, a president, a Welsh poet and a music producer

A screenwriter, a champagne maker, a learning disabilities campaigner, a president, a Welsh poet and a music producer

05/04/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, A screenwriter, a champagne maker, a learning disabilities campaigner, a president, a Welsh poet and a music producer

Matthew Bannister remembers Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Henri Krug, Mabel Cooper and Moses Blah.

Matthew Bannister on novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, champagne maker Henri Krug, learning disabilities campaigner Mabel Cooper, and Liberian president Moses Blah.

Matthew Bannister on:

The novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who won the Booker prize for Heat and Dust - and Oscars for two of her Merchant Ivory scripts. James Ivory pays tribute.

Henri Krug who led the blending process that made his family's acclaimed champagne.

Mabel Cooper - who spent the first thirty years of her life in institutions, but later became a campaigner for the rights of people with learning disabilities.

The Liberian politician Moses Blah - vice President under Charles Taylor - and briefly President himself in the handover to a transitional government.

And Anthony Conran the Welsh poet who was born with cerebral palsy.

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