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Matthew Bannister

Simon Tillotson

Last Word: Pete Seeger, Kathryn Findlay, Sir Robert Scholey, Sir Run Run Shaw

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31/01/2014

Pete Seeger, Kathryn Findlay, Sir Robert Scholey, Sir Run Run Shaw

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Pete Seeger, Kathryn Findlay, Sir Robert Scholey, Sir Run Run Shaw

A singer and activist, an architect, a British Steel chairman and a movie mogul.

Matthew Bannister remembers folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, architect Kathryn Findlay, British Steel chairman Sir Bob Scholey and Hong Kong movie mogul Sir Run Run Shaw.

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The American folk singer and activist Pete Seeger. We've spoken to Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, his sister Peggy and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds.

Also: the architect Kathryn Findlay who worked on the Orbit Tower at the Olympic Park and created surreal space age houses in Japan.

Sir Bob Scholey who presided over the transformation of British Steel from loss making nationalised industry to profitable private company.

And Sir Run Run Shaw, the Hong Kong movie mogul whose studios produced nearly a thousand films.

Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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