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

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Aasmah Mir

Paul Kobrak

Last Word: A Holocaust activist, a Hollywood actress, a jazz keyboardist, a stuntman and a tugboat hero

A Holocaust activist, a Hollywood actress, a jazz keyboardist, a stuntman and a tugboat hero

16/08/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, A Holocaust activist, a Hollywood actress, a jazz keyboardist, a stuntman and a tugboat hero

Aasmah Mir recalls Betty Maxwell, Mark Sutton, Karen Black, Kenneth Dancy and George Duke.

Obituary series. Aasmah Mir remembers Robert Maxwell's widow Betty, Olympic stuntman Mark Sutton, actor Karen Black, tugboat hero Kenneth Dancy and keyboardist George Duke.

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Betty Maxwell, the widow of the late publisher Robert Maxwell

The stuntman who parachuted in to the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, Mark Sutton

Karen Black, star of Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider and Airport 75

Kenneth Dancy, the tugboat hero who attempted to save the stricken freighter Flying Enterprise in 1952 

And innovative and flamboyant jazz keyboardist George Duke.

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