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Last Word: Rev Ian Paisley, Sir Donald Sinden, Caroline Gooding, Anthony Smith, Andrew McLaglen

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12/09/2014

Rev Ian Paisley, Sir Donald Sinden, Caroline Gooding, Anthony Smith, Andrew McLaglen

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Rev Ian Paisley, Sir Donald Sinden, Caroline Gooding, Anthony Smith, Andrew McLaglen

Matthew Bannister on a politician, an actor, an adventurer, a disability rights campaigner

Matthew Bannister remembers former first minister of NI the Rev Ian Paisley, actor Sir Donald Sinden, adventurer Anthony Smith and disability rights campaigner Caroline Gooding.

Matthew Bannister on former First Minister of Northern Ireland and DUP leader Ian Paisley.

The actor Sir Donald Sinden. Dame Judi Dench and Gyles Brandreth pay tribute.

Anthony Smith, the writer and broadcaster who enjoyed ballooning and travelled across the Atlantic on a home-made raft at the age of 84.

And the lawyer and disability rights campaigner Caroline Gooding - who played a key role in bringing about the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995.

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