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Last Word: Colleen McCullough, Richard von Weizsaecker, Carl Djerassi, Geraldine McEwan and Lotte Hass

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06/02/2015

Colleen McCullough, Richard von Weizsaecker, Carl Djerassi, Geraldine McEwan and Lotte Hass

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Colleen McCullough, Richard von Weizsaecker, Carl Djerassi, Geraldine McEwan and Lotte Hass

Matthew Bannister talks about an author, a president, a chemist, an actress and a diver.

Matthew Bannister on the lives of author Colleen McCullough, German president Richard von Weizsaecker, chemist Carl Djerassi, actress Geraldine McEwan and diver Lotte Hass.

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Colleen McCullough, the Australian writer of the bestseller The Thorn Birds who spent her later life on a Pacific island.

Richard von Weizsaecker, President of Germany at re-unification, who gave a highly significant speech about the country's attitude to its troubled 20th Century history.

Carl Djerassi, the chemist who was known as the father of the contraceptive pill.

The actress Geraldine McEwan, who had a distinguished stage career and played Miss Marple on TV.

And the diver Lotte Hass who worked alongside her husband to pioneer underwater films which enchanted TV viewers in the 1950s.

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