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Last Word: Roy Dommett, Warren Mitchell, Allen Toussaint, Cynthia Payne and Jonah Lomu

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20/11/2015

Roy Dommett, Warren Mitchell, Allen Toussaint, Cynthia Payne and Jonah Lomu

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Roy Dommett, Warren Mitchell, Allen Toussaint, Cynthia Payne and Jonah Lomu

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.

Matthew Bannister on 

Roy Dommett, one of the UK's leading rocket scientists who was also a well known morris dancer. 

Warren Mitchell, the actor best known for playing Alf Garnett in the TV sit com "Till Death Us Do Part" 

Allen Toussaint, the New Orleans producer and musician who worked with many of the great names in rock. 

Cynthia Payne, who ran a brothel at her home in Streatham where men exchanged luncheon vouchers for sex. 

And Jonah Lomu, the rugby player who won 63 caps for the All Blacks and scored 37 international tries.

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