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Julian Worricker

Neil George

Last Word: Charles P Lazarus, Marielle Franco, John Brookes, Zena Skinner, Oskar Groning

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30/03/2018

Charles P Lazarus, Marielle Franco, John Brookes, Zena Skinner, Oskar Groning

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Charles P Lazarus, Marielle Franco, John Brookes, Zena Skinner, Oskar Groning

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

Julian Worricker on Toys 'R' Us founder Charles Lazarus; Brazilian activist Marielle Franco; garden designer John Brookes; TV chef Zena Skinner; Nazi war criminal Oskar Groning.

Photo: Zena Skinner

Julian Worricker on:

Charles P Lazarus, the founder of Toys 'R' Us - a store chain which, for decades, captured the hearts of consumers around the world

Brazilian political activist Marielle Franco, who grew up in the favelas and was elected to Rio city council 

Landscape designer John Brookes, described as 'the man who made the modern garden'....

Zena Skinner, one of the most popular chefs on television in the 1960s and 70s

And convicted Nazi war criminal, Oskar Groning, who became known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz

Archive clips from: AUSCHWITZ: THE NAZIS AND ‘THE FINAL SOLUTION’, BBC ONE 11/01/2005; GARDENER’S WORLD, BBC TWO; GARDENER’S QUESTION TIME, RADIO 4

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