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Last Word: A sculptor, a comedian, a social worker and Yugoslavia's First Lady

A sculptor, a comedian, a social worker and Yugoslavia's First Lady

25/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, A sculptor, a comedian, a social worker and Yugoslavia's First Lady

Matthew Bannister recalls Sir Anthony Caro, Jovanka Broz, Felix Dexter and Olive Stevenson

Obituary series. Matthew Bannister remembers sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, Yugoslavia's First Lady Jovanka Broz, comedian Felix Dexter and social work academic Olive Stevenson.

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The sculptor Sir Anthony Caro - best known for his large and colourful abstract works placed directly on the ground. 

Also Jovanka Broz - the second world war partisan fighter who married the Yugoslavian dictator Marshall Tito - but was reduced to poverty after his death.

Felix Dexter - the black comedian who made his name on the TV show The Real McCoy - and often satirised racial stereotyopes.

And Professor Olive Stevenson - the leading social work academic who devoted herself to improving the safety of vulnerable chidren and adults.

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