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Factual: Life Stories

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

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Matthew Bannister

William Sitwell

Suleiman Wali

Michael Carlson

Cornelius Lysaght

Matthew Sweet

Last Word: Antonio Carluccio, Sima Wali, Richard Wilbur, Mary Reveley, Dudley Simpson

Antonio Carluccio, Sima Wali, Richard Wilbur, Mary Revely, Dudley Simpson

10/11/2017

Antonio Carluccio, Sima Wali, Richard Wilbur, Mary Reveley, Dudley Simpson

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Antonio Carluccio, Sima Wali, Richard Wilbur, Mary Reveley, Dudley Simpson

Matthew Bannister on a chef, a campaigner, a poet, a trainer, and  a composer.

Matthew Bannister on chef Antonio Carluccio, Afghan women's rights campaigner Sima Wali, poet Richard Wilbur, racehorse trainer Mary Reveley, TV composer Dudley Simpson.

Matthew Bannister on 

The chef Antonio Carluccio who transformed Italian cooking in the UK.

Sima Wali who devoted her life to campaigning for the rights of Afghan women.

The Pulitzer Prize winning American poet laureate Richard Wilbur.

Mary Reveley, the Yorkshire based race horse trainer who saddled more than two thousand winners.

And Dudley Simpson who composed the theme from the TV series Blake's Seven and incidental music for Dr Who.

Interviewed guest: William Sitwell
Interviewed guest: Suleiman Wali
Interviewed guest: Michael Carlson
Interviewed guest: Cornelius Lysaght
Interviewed guest: Matthew Sweet.

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