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Last Word: Rik Mayall, Dr Lorna Wing, Eric Hill, Billie Fleming, Alan Douglas

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13/06/2014

Rik Mayall, Dr Lorna Wing, Eric Hill, Billie Fleming, Alan Douglas

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Rik Mayall, Dr Lorna Wing, Eric Hill, Billie Fleming, Alan Douglas

Matthew Bannister remembers a comedian, a psychiatrist, a children's writer and a cyclist.

Matthew Bannister on comedian-actor Rik Mayall, psychiatrist Dr Lorna Wing, children's writer and illustrator Eric Hill, cyclist Billie Fleming and record producer Alan Douglas.

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The comedian and actor Rik Mayall. His Young Ones co-star Nigel Planer pays tribute.

Also the psychiatrist Dr. Lorna Wing who studied autism and coined the term Asperger's Syndrome.

The children's writer and illustrator Eric Hill - creator of Spot the Dog

And Billie Fleming who - in 1938 - set out to demonstrate the benefits of cycling by riding her bike every day. She averaged 80 miles a day and still holds the record for the longest distance cycled by a woman in a year - over 29 thousand miles.

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