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Last Word: Carla Lane, Sir Denys Henderson, Jane Fawcett, Alan Devereux and Buster Cooper

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03/06/2016

Carla Lane, Sir Denys Henderson, Jane Fawcett, Alan Devereux and Buster Cooper

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Carla Lane, Sir Denys Henderson, Jane Fawcett, Alan Devereux and Buster Cooper

Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a businessman, a conservationist, an actor.

Matthew Bannister on comedy writer Carla Lane, ICI chairman Sir Denys Henderson, Victorian buildings conservationist Jane Fawcett, Archers actor Alan Devereux.

Matthew Bannister on

Carla Lane who wrote hit TV comedies including The Liver Birds, Bread and Butterflies. Wendy Craig pays tribute. 

The ICI Chairman Sir Denys Henderson, who fought off a takeover bid from Lord Hanson and split the company into two parts.

Jane Fawcett, the former debutante who worked with the code-breakers at Bletchley Park and then fought to conserve many of Britain's greatest Victorian buildings.

And Alan Devereux who for nearly fifty years played Sid Perks in the Archers.

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