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Matthew Bannister

Last Word: Marcus Klingberg, William McIlvanney, Setsuko Hara, Joel Elkes and John Peel

Marcus Klingberg, William McIlvanney, Setsuko Hara, Joel Elkes and John Peel

11/12/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Marcus Klingberg, William McIlvanney, Setsuko Hara, Joel Elkes and John Peel

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

Matthew Bannister on Israeli spy Marcus Klingberg, writer William McIlvanney, actress Setsuko Hara, pharmacologist Joel Elkes, anthropologist John Peel

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The Israeli chemical weapons expert Marcus Klingberg, who was revealed to have been spying for the Soviet Union. 

The Scottish writer William McIlvanney, best known for his Jack Laidlaw crime novels. Val McDermid pays tribute. 

Setsuko Hara, one of Japan's most popular film actresses. 

Joel Elkes, the pharmacologist who pioneered the use of drugs to treat schizophrenia. 

And John Peel, the anthropologist who studied Nigeria's Yoruba people.

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