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Factual: Life Stories

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

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Professor Melissa Terras

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Last Word: Professor Lisa Jardine, Philip French, Ronnie Massarella, Maureen O'Hara

Professor Lisa Jardine, Philip French, Ronnie Massarella, Maureen O'Hara

30/10/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Professor Lisa Jardine, Philip French, Ronnie Massarella, Maureen O'Hara

Matthew Bannister on a polymath, a critic, a showjumping manager, a film star

Matthew Bannister on 

Professor Lisa Jardine, the historian whose intellectual curiosity stretched across the arts and sciences. She was chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and a regular broadcaster on Radio 4. 

Philip French, for thirty-five years the Chief Film Critic of the Observer. 

Ronnie Massarella who built up a successful family ice cream business and managed the British showjumping team for 32 years. 

And Maureen O'Hara, the red haired Irish film star known as the Queen of Technicolor. She appeared opposite John Wayne in five of his films including the Quiet Man.

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