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

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Matthew Bannister

Neil George

Last Word: Jonathan Demme, Robert Taylor, Cathy Hopkins, Peter Farrer, Dorothy Torry

Jonathan Demme, Robert Taylor, Cathy Hopkins, Peter Farrer, Dorothy Torry

28/04/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Jonathan Demme, Robert Taylor, Cathy Hopkins, Peter Farrer, Dorothy Torry

Matthew Bannister on a director, a computer pioneer, a campaigner, a tax inspector.

Matthew Bannister on film director Jonathan Demme, computer pioneer Robert Taylor, St Helena campaigner Cathy Hopkins, tax inpsector Peter Farrer, BBC secretary Dorothy Torry.

Matthew Bannister on

The film director Jonathan Demme - best known for the multi Oscar winning films Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia.

Robert Taylor who helped to develop the first networked computers - a forerunner of the internet - and inspired the creation of modern personal computers.

Cathy Hopkins who campaigned for the residents of St Helena to get back their British citizenship.

Peter Farrer, the Liverpool tax inspector who enjoyed cross dressing and became an expert on the history of women's costume. 

And Dorothy Torry, secretary to six BBC Directors General, including Lord Reith. 

Producer: Neil George.

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