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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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Julian Worricker

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Joanna Jolly

Nicholas Mann

John Sprange

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Last Word: Ingvar Kamprad, Elizabeth Hawley, Robert Mann, Jon Castle, Dorothy Malone

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02/02/2018

Ingvar Kamprad, Elizabeth Hawley, Robert Mann, Jon Castle, Dorothy Malone

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Ingvar Kamprad, Elizabeth Hawley, Robert Mann, Jon Castle, Dorothy Malone

Julian Worricker on an entrepreneur, a chronicler, a musician, an activist and an actress.

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died. Ingvar Kamprad, Elizabeth Hawley, Robert Mann, Jon Castle and Dorothy Malone.

Photo: Dorothy Malone

Julian Worricker on:

Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish entrepreneur who founded Ikea and changed the way we furnish our homes

Elizabeth Hawley, journalist turned chronicler, who documented every Himalayan climb from 1963

The musician, Robert Mann, who was the founding first violinist of the Juilliard Quartet

Jon Castle, the Greenpeace activist who captained the first Rainbow Warrior

Oscar-winning actress Dorothy Malone, famous for her role in Peyton Place. 

Archive clips from: Outlook, BBC World Service 16/06/10; Profiles: Ingvar Kamprad: Design for Life, BBC 4 08/07/04; Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil, ep 3. BBC 4 02/07/09; Radio 4 News 10/07/85; Newsbeat, Radio 1 20/06/95.

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