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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

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Last Word: Oscar Holderer, David Sharp, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, Alexandre Lamfalussy and Guy Carawan

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22/05/2015

Oscar Holderer, David Sharp, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, Alexandre Lamfalussy and Guy Carawan

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Oscar Holderer, David Sharp, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, Alexandre Lamfalussy and Guy Carawan

Matthew Bannister on a rocket scientist, a rambler, an aristocrat, an economist, a singer.

Matthew Bannister on rocket scientist Oscar Holderer, rambler David Sharp, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, economist Alexandre Lamfalussy, musician and campaigner Guy Carawan.

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Oscar Holderer, the last known survivor of the group of German rocket scientists who moved to America after the second world war. He helped to develop the Saturn Five rocket that took men to the moon.

Also rambler David Sharp - who created the Thames Path.

The Dowager Marchioness of Reading who was a pioneering pilot, a stock car racer and noted for her outspoken political views.

The economist and banker Alexandre Lamfalussy who laid the foundations for the European single currency.

And the American musician Guy Carawan who helped to turn the church song "We Shall Overcome" into an international campaigning anthem.

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