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Last Word: Warren Anderson, Acker Bilk, Lord Barnett, Sonia Rolt

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Warren Anderson, Acker Bilk, Lord Barnett, Sonia Rolt

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Warren Anderson, Acker Bilk, Lord Barnett, Sonia Rolt

Matthew Bannister on a company chairman, a musician, a politician and a canal campaigner.

Matthew Bannister on Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson, jazz musician Acker Bilk, Labour politician Lord Barnett and canal campaigner Sonia Rolt.

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Warren Anderson who was chairman of the Union Carbide chemical company at the time of the Bhopal disaster, which killed more than 2,200 people and injured thousands more.

Acker Bilk, the jazz clarinettist from Somerset best known for his hit "Stranger On The Shore".

The Labour politician Lord Barnett, who came up with the "Barnett formula" to decide on public spending in the different nations of the UK.

And Sonia Rolt, who worked on the canals during the war and then devoted her life to preserving Britain's industrial heritage.

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