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Last Word: Lillian Ross, Jalal Talabani, Terry Downes, Sybil Flory, Hedley Jones

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13/10/2017

Lillian Ross, Jalal Talabani, Terry Downes, Sybil Flory, Hedley Jones

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Lillian Ross, Jalal Talabani, Terry Downes, Sybil Flory, Hedley Jones

Julian Worricker on a journalist, a politician, a boxer, a seamstress, a musician.

Julian Worricker on journalist Lillian Ross, Iraqi president in the 2000s Jalal Talabani, boxer Terry Downes, seamstress Sybil Flory and musician and inventor Hedley Jones.

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Lillian Ross, who wrote for the New Yorker, and created a new form of journalism....

The Iraqi president after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Jalal Talabani - a prominent Kurdish politician....

The boxer Terry Downes, who held the world middleweight title in the 1960s....

Sybil Flory, a seamstress who evaded the Japanese in 1941, and found her sister six decades later....

Hedley Jones, a Jamaican musician who designed and built the country's first sound systems....and traffic lights....

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