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

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Matthew Bannister

Last Word: A former Prime Minister, an IVF pioneer, a Corgi toy designer and a Muppets co-creator

A former Prime Minister, an IVF pioneer, a Corgi toy designer and a Muppets co-creator

12/04/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, A former Prime Minister, an IVF pioneer, a Corgi toy designer and a Muppets co-creator

Matthew Bannister on Baroness Thatcher, Sir Robert Edwards and Marcel Van Cleemput.

Obituary series. Matthew Bannister remembers Baroness Thatcher, IVF pioneer Sir Robert Edwards, Corgi toy designer Marcel Van Cleemput and Muppets co-creator Jane Henson.

Following a week of tributes to Baroness Thatcher, Matthew Bannister gives the Last Word to the other Dennis - the man who was her driver for fourteen years. And we hear how her father's Methodist sermons shaped her philosophy. 

Also the Nobel prize winning pioneer of IVF Sir Robert Edwards, Lord Winston pays tribute.

Marcel Van Cleemput who designed all the Corgi toys so popular with children in the sixties and seventies including the James Bond Aston Martin DB5, the Batmobile and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

And Jane Henson who worked with her husband Jim to create the Muppets.

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