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Last Word: Glen Campbell, Dame Helen Alexander, Prunella Briance, Clancy Sigal

Glen Campbell, Dame Helen Alexander, Prunella Briance, Clancy Sigal

11/08/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Glen Campbell, Dame Helen Alexander, Prunella Briance, Clancy Sigal

Matthew Bannister on a musician, a businesswoman, a writer, a childbirth campaigner.

Matthew Bannister on musician Glen Campbell, businesswoman Dame Helen Alexander, writer Clancy Sigal, childbirth campaigner Prunella Briance.

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Glen Campbell - the singer and guitarist best known for hits like Galveston and Witchita Lineman. We talk to the man who wrote them - Jimmy Webb.

Dame Helen Alexander, former Chief Executive of the Economist Group and the first woman to head the C.B.I. 

Clancy Sigal the American writer and activist who was blacklisted during the Communist witch hunts of the 1950s. 

Prunella Briance who founded the National Childbirth Trust after two traumatic experiences of giving birth.

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