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

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Last Word: Beth Chatto, Philip Roth, Doreen Simmons, Khurshid Drabu, June Milne.

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Beth Chatto, Philip Roth, Doreen Simmons, Khurshid Drabu, June Milne.

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Beth Chatto, Philip Roth, Doreen Simmons, Khurshid Drabu, June Milne.

Julian Worricker on a gardener, an author, a judge, a sumo expert, a publisher.

Julian Worricker on gardener Beth Chatto, author Philip Roth, sumo expert Doreen Simmons, judge Khurshid Drabu, writer and publisher June Milne.

Photo: Philip Roth

Julian Worricker on:

Beth Chatto, the gardener and writer regarded as one of the most influential horticulturists of the past 50 years

The multiple award-winning American novelist, Philip Roth...author of Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral

Doreen Simmons, who moved to Japan in her forties and became an authority on sumo wrestling

Britain's first Muslim judge, Khurshid Drabu, described as a pioneer in promoting community cohesion

And June Milne, writer, publisher, and trusted guardian of the works of independent Ghana's first leader, Kwame Nkrumah.

Archive clips from: The Cancer of Betrayal, 03/03/07 Radio 4; Woman's Hour, 18/08/08 Radio 4; Gardening Gurus, 30/01/00 Radio 4; Front Row, 27/06/11 Radio 4; The World Tonight, 15/07/05 Radio 4; Sumo wrestling commentary, NHK TV.

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