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

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Julian Worricker

Neil George

Will Gompertz

Karen Krizanovich

Rupert Van der Post

Valerie Singleton

Last Word: John Berger, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, Henry Heimlich, Patsy Crampton, Brian Widlake and George Michael

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06/01/2017

John Berger, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, Henry Heimlich, Patsy Crampton, Brian Widlake and George Michael

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, John Berger, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, Henry Heimlich, Patsy Crampton, Brian Widlake and George Michael

Julian Worricker on a writer, a linguist, a broadcaster, a musician, a surgeon, two actors

Julian Worricker on writer John Berger, actors Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, surgeon Henry Heimlich, linguist Patsy Crampton, journalist Brian Widlake, singer George Michael.

Julian Worricker on:

The writer and art critic John Berger

Mother and daughter actresses, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher

The surgeon who came up with the life-saving heimlich manoeuvre, Henry Heimlich

The linguist Patsy Crampton, who worked at the Nuremberg trials before going on to translate more than 200 children's books

Broadcaster Brian Widlake, well known for the Money Programme and the World at One

And one of the biggest names in popular music, George Michael.

Producer: Neil George.

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