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Last Word: Gerry Goffin, Freydis Sharland, Alexander Shulgin, Francis Matthews

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20/06/2014

Gerry Goffin, Freydis Sharland, Alexander Shulgin, Francis Matthews

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Gerry Goffin, Freydis Sharland, Alexander Shulgin, Francis Matthews

Matthew Bannister remembers a songwriter, a pilot, a chemist and an actor.

Obituary series. Matthew Bannister remembers songwriter Gerry Goffin, pilot Freydis Sharland, chemist Alexander Shulgin and actor Francis Matthews.

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The lyricist Gerry Goffin - who, with his wife Carole King, wrote some of the biggest hits of the sixties and seventies. They include Will You Love Me Tomorrow, You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman and Up On The Roof.

Also: the pioneering woman pilot Freydis Sharland, who delivered aircraft during the war and once flew a Tempest from the UK to Pakistan.

Alexander Shulgin - the American chemist known as the Godfather of psychedelic drugs.

And the actor Francis Matthews best known for playing the suave spy Paul Temple on TV - and providing the voice of the puppet Captain Scarlet.

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