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

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Last Word: Gareth Gwenlan, Sir Harry Kroto, Michael 'Dandy Kim' Caborn-Waterfield, Lilly Dubowitz, Papa Wemba

Gareth Gwenlan, Sir Harry Kroto, Michael 'Dandy Kim' Caborn-Waterfield, Lilly Dubowitz, Papa Wemba

13/05/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Gareth Gwenlan, Sir Harry Kroto, Michael 'Dandy Kim' Caborn-Waterfield, Lilly Dubowitz, Papa Wemba

Matthew Bannister on a TV producer, a chemist, a wheeler dealer, a paediatrician, a singer

Matthew Bannister on TV producer Gareth Gwenlan, chemist Sir Harry Kroto, wheeler dealer Michael 'Dandy Kim' Caborn-Waterfield, paediatrician Lilly Dubowitz, singer Papa Wemba

Matthew Bannister on

Gareth Gwenlan the TV producer and Head of BBC Comedy behind a string of hits including Only Fools and Horses. Sir David Jason pays tribute.

Sir Harry Kroto, the Nobel prize winning chemist who helped to discover new forms of carbon.

Michael 'Dandy Kim' Caborn-Waterfield, the charming, well dressed scoundrel who started the Ann Summers chain of sex shops and was imprisoned in France for stealing thousands of pounds from the movie mogul Jack Warner.

The paediatrician Lilly Dubowitz who developed revolutionary tests to assess new born babies

And the Congolese singer and flamboyant dresser Papa Wemba.

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