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Last Word: Lord Brittan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Professor John Bayley, Anne Kirkbride

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23/01/2015

Lord Brittan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Professor John Bayley, Anne Kirkbride

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Lord Brittan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Professor John Bayley, Anne Kirkbride

Obituary series: Matthew Bannister on a politician, a king, an academic and an actress.

Obituary series with Matthew Bannister, featuring Tory politician Lord Brittan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Oxford don John Bayley and Coronation Street actress Anne Kirkbride.

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The former Tory Home Secretary Lord Brittan. As Leon Brittan, he also served as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and as a European Commissioner.

Also: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. He was the thirteenth of at least forty-five sons of the founder of modern Saudi Arabia and seen as a cautious reformer.

John Bayley, the eccentric Oxford don whose memoir of his life with the novelist Iris Murdoch was made into a film.

And Anne Kirkbride the actress who played Deirdre in Coronation Street for more than forty years.

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