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Paula McGinley

Last Word: Lauren Bacall, Prof Sir Alan Peacock, Robin Williams, Peter Sculthorpe

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15/08/2014

Lauren Bacall, Prof Sir Alan Peacock, Robin Williams, Peter Sculthorpe

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Lauren Bacall, Prof Sir Alan Peacock, Robin Williams, Peter Sculthorpe

Andrea Catherwood on a Hollywood legend, a comic genius, a composer and an economist.

Andrea Catherwood on actor and comedian Robin Williams, Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall, Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe and cultural economist Professor Sir Alan Peacock.

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Oscar-winning actor and stand up comedy genius Robin Williams famed for films such as Good Morning Vietnam and Dead Poets' Society.

Hollywood movie legend Lauren Bacall who shot to stardom in the 1940's starring alongside Humphrey Bogart who she married, creating one of Hollywood's most high profile partnerships on and off screen.

Peter Sculthorpe, credited as being the first truly Australian composer who created music with a distinct identity drawing on the Australian landscape and Aboriginal music for his inspiration.

Professor Sir Alan Peacock, a leading free market economist with expertise in cultural economics who chaired the Peacock Committee into funding of the BBC in the mid eighties.

Producer: Paula McGinley.

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