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Anna Botting

Giles Camplin

Patricia Dixon

Mohammed Hanif

Matthew Bannister

Last Word: Morgan Tsvangirai, Douglas Botting, Professor Patricia Lindop, Asma Jahangir, Vic Damone

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16/02/2018

Morgan Tsvangirai, Douglas Botting, Professor Patricia Lindop, Asma Jahangir, Vic Damone

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Morgan Tsvangirai, Douglas Botting, Professor Patricia Lindop, Asma Jahangir, Vic Damone

Matthew Bannister on a politician, an explorer, a scientist, a lawyer, a singer.

Matthew Bannister on Zimbabwean politician Morgan Tsvangirai, explorer Douglas Botting, radiation biologist Patricia Lindop, human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir, singer Vic Damone.

Photo: Morgan Tsvangirai

Matthew Bannister on

Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change and Prime Minister from 2008 to 2013.

Douglas Botting, film maker, author and explorer who flew a hot air balloon across Africa and sailed a hovercraft down the Orinoco.

Professor Patricia Lindop, who researched the effects of radiation on human tissue.

Asma Jahangir, the lawyer from Pakistan who campaigned for the rights of the country's persecuted minorities.

And Vic Damone, the crooner who recorded more than two thousand songs.


Interviewed guest: Alex Magaisa
Interviewed guest: Anna Botting
Interviewed guest: Dr Giles Camplin
Interviewed guest: Patricia Dixon
Interviewed guest: Mohammed Hanif

Archive clips from: The Choice, Radio 4 07/12/2004; The World About Us: River of Death, BBC Two 19/01/69; Balloon From Zanzibar, BBC Two 23/08/62; The World About Us: Three Men in a Balloon, BBC Two 13/12/70; On The Bosom of the Air, Radio 4 19/09/1962; Hot to Handle: The Two Faces of Radiation, BBC One 17/03/66; Science and Society, BBC One 22/03/66; Nihal, BBC Asian Network 17/11/2010; Taking A Stand, Radio 4 01/01/2002; Outlook, BBC World Service, 22/11/2010; Woman's Hour, Radio 4, 07/06/2005; The Arthur Askey Variety Show, Radio 4 Extra, 07.06.2015; The John Dunn Show, Radio 2, 01/01/00.

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