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Last Word: Norman Moore, Diane Charlemagne, Professor David Cesarani, Colin Welland and Peter Donaldson

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06/11/2015

Norman Moore, Diane Charlemagne, Professor David Cesarani, Colin Welland and Peter Donaldson

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Norman Moore, Diane Charlemagne, Professor David Cesarani, Colin Welland and Peter Donaldson

Matthew Bannister on a conservationist, a singer, an historian, an actor, a newsreader

Matthew Bannister on 

Norman Moore, the conservationist who discovered that organochorine pesticides were decimating the UK's bird of prey population. He fought a twenty year campaign to have them banned. 

The singer Diane Charlemagne - known as the diva of drum and bass. We have a tribute from Moby. 

The academic David Cesarani - a leading authority on modern Jewish history. 

The actor and screenwriter Colin Welland who, on winning an Oscar for Chariots of Fire, announced "The British Are Coming". 

And a powerful poem read by the Radio 4 newsreader and Chief Announcer Peter Donaldson.

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