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Last Word: Lord Denis Healey, Carmen Balcells, Henning Mankell, Revd Kenneth Leech and Captain Bob Arnott

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09/10/2015

Lord Denis Healey, Carmen Balcells, Henning Mankell, Revd Kenneth Leech and Captain Bob Arnott

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Lord Denis Healey, Carmen Balcells, Henning Mankell, Revd Kenneth Leech and Captain Bob Arnott

Lucy Ash on a politician, a literary agent, a crime writer, a QE2 captain and a churchman.

Lucy Ash talks about Labour politician Denis Healey, literary agent Carmen Balcells, crime writer Henning Mankell, campaigning churchman Kennenth Leech and QE2 captain Bob Arnott.

Lucy Ash on the former Labour politician Denis Healey who was Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Winter of Discontent in 70s; Catalan literary agent Carmen Ballcells known as Big Mamma to her Nobel Prize winning authors;Captain Bob Arnott, beloved by his passengers on the QE2; Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell and radical priest Reverend Kenneth Leech, who founded the homelessness charity Centrepoint.

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