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Last Word: Bob Hoskins, U Win Tin, Ian McIntyre, Gailene Stock

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02/05/2014

Bob Hoskins, U Win Tin, Ian McIntyre, Gailene Stock

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Bob Hoskins, U Win Tin, Ian McIntyre, Gailene Stock

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a Burmese activist, a BBC executive and a ballet teacher.

Obituaries. Matthew Bannister remembers actor Bob Hoskins, Burmese journalist and activist U Win Tin, BBC executive Ian McIntyre and Royal Ballet School principal Gailene Stock.

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The actor Bob Hoskins who starred in the films Mona Lisa and the Long Good Friday, the TV play Pennies from Heaven and Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre. We have tributes from Sir Richard Eyre and Gemma Craven.

Also, the Burmese journalist and activist U Win Tin, right hand man to Aung Sang Suu Kyi in the pro Democracy movement.

Ian McIntyre, the BBC broadcaster and manager. He presented Analysis on Radio 4 and went on to be the network's Controller.

And Gailene Stock, the Australian ballet dancer who became the principal of the Royal Ballet School. Deborah Bull pays tribute.

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