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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: Peter Gibson, AA Gill, Coral Atkins, William Chaloner, Ian McCaskill

Peter Gibson, AA Gill, Coral Atkins, William Chaloner, Ian McCaskill

16/12/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Peter Gibson, AA Gill, Coral Atkins, William Chaloner, Ian McCaskill

Matthew Bannister on a glazier, a journalist, a carer, a palaeobotanist, a weatherman.

Matthew Bannister on glazier Peter Gibson, journalist AA Gill, carer Coral Atkins, palaeobotanist William Chaloner, weatherman Ian McCaskill.

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Peter Gibson the master glazier who devoted his life to the care of the stained glass windows in York Minster.

AA Gill, who overcame alcoholism and dyslexia to become one of the UK's best known critics.

Coral Atkins who gave up a career as an actress to run homes for disadvantaged children.

William Chaloner, an authority on fossil plants who used pollen from the past to reconstruct ancient environments.

Ian McCaskill, the BBC weather man much imitated by impressionists.

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