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Last Word: Sir Peter Hall, Kate Millett, Sir Edward du Cann, JP Donleavy

Sir Peter Hall, Kate Millett, Sir Edward du Cann, JP Donleavy

15/09/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Sir Peter Hall, Kate Millett, Sir Edward du Cann, JP Donleavy

Matthew Bannister on a theatre director, a radical feminist, an MP, a writer.

Matthew Bannister on theatre director Sir Peter Hall, radical feminist Kate Millett, Tory MP Sir Edward Du Cann, writer JP Donleavy.

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Sir Peter Hall, the director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company, ran the National Theatre and created many acclaimed theatrical and operatic productions.

Kate Millett, the radical feminist whose 1970 book Sexual Politics suggested that men's institutionalised power over women is a social construct, rather than innate or biological. 

Sir Edward Du Cann, the Tory MP and businessman who chaired the 1922 backbench committee, fell out with Edward Heath, and went bankrupt in the 1990s.

J.P. Donleavy, the US-born Irish writer whose bawdy tale of Dublin Life - The Ginger Man - sold fifty million copies.

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