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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: Sir Nigel Rodley, Sir Cosmo Haskard, Louise Hulton, Pete Overend Watts

Sir Nigel Rodley, Sir Cosmo Haskard, Louise Hulton, Pete Overend Watts

10/03/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Sir Nigel Rodley, Sir Cosmo Haskard, Louise Hulton, Pete Overend Watts

Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a bass player, a maternal health expert, a governor.

Matthew Bannister on human rights lawyer Sir Nigel Rodley, bass player Pete Overend Watts, maternal health expert Louise Hulton and Falklands Governor Sir Cosmo Haskard.

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The human rights lawyer Sir Nigel Rodley. He helped to draft the United Nations Convention Against Torture and became its special rapporteur on the issue. 

Pete Overend Watts, the bass player from Mott the Hoople. His platform soled boots were so high that if he fell over on stage he needed a roadie to put him back on his feet again. 

Louise Hulton the maternal health expert who worked tirelessly to improve conditions for childbirth around the world.

And Sir Cosmo Haskard, the colourful Governor of the Falkland Islands, who helped to stop the Labour government from handing them to Argentina in the 1960s. 

Producer: Neil George.

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