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Last Word: Lynda Bellingham, Ben Bradlee, Geoffrey Perry, John Holt

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24/10/2014

Lynda Bellingham, Ben Bradlee, Geoffrey Perry, John Holt

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Lynda Bellingham, Ben Bradlee, Geoffrey Perry, John Holt

Andrea Catherwood remembers an actress, a war veteran, a reggae artist and newspaperman.

Obituary series. Andrea Catherwood remembers actress Lynda Bellingham, war veteran Geoffrey Perry, reggae star John Holt and Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee.

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Lynda Bellingham, a much loved actress, best known as the gravy making mum in Oxo television ads.

Ben Bradlee, charismatic editor of the Washington Post, at the helm of the paper when it broke the Watergate scandal which brought down President Nixon.

John Holt, the honey voiced Jamaican reggae artist and songwriter.

Geoffrey Perry, a Berlin born Jew who became an officer in the British army and captured Lord Haw Haw, the Nazi propaganda broadcaster, at the end of the war.

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