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Last Word: James Garner, Joep Lange, Alan Alan, Philip Wayre, Dora Bryan

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25/07/2014

James Garner, Joep Lange, Alan Alan, Philip Wayre, Dora Bryan

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, James Garner, Joep Lange, Alan Alan, Philip Wayre, Dora Bryan

Julian Worricker on an actor, a physician, a naturalist, an actress and an escapologist

Julian Worricker on actors James Garner and Dora Bryan, naturalist Philip Wayre, physician and AIDS researcher Joep Lange, and escapologist Alan Alan

On Last Word this week: 

James Garner, the film and television actor who starred in Maverick and the Rockford Files.... 

The Dutch physician, Joep Lange, who's regarded as one of the world's top clinical AIDS researchers.... 

Alan Alan, an escapologist described as Britain's answer to Houdini.... 

Philip Wayre, a naturalist who's credited with saving the otter from extinction in England.... 

And the Bafta award winning actress, Dora Bryan, whose career embraced the stage, screen and television.

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