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Last Word: Hugh McIlvanney, Jennie Buckman, John Beavis, David Pritchard

25/01/2019

Hugh McIlvanney, Jennie Buckman, John Beavis, David Pritchard

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Hugh McIlvanney, Jennie Buckman, John Beavis, David Pritchard

Matthew Bannister on a sports writer, a theatre director, a surgeon and a producer.

Matthew Bannister on sports writer Hugh McIlvanney, theatre director Jennie Buckman, surgeon John Beavis, producer David Pritchard.

Pictured: Hugh McIlvanney

Matthew Bannister on 

Hugh McIlvanney, the respected sports writer known for his love of language and combative approach to life. 

Jennie Buckman, the theatre practitioner who trained a generation of famous actors and founded a company to give voice to the disadvantaged. 

John Beavis, the surgeon who was forced to retire from the NHS through ill health but then spent the next 25 years training medical professionals in war zones around the world.

And David Pritchard, the TV producer who created mould-breaking food programmes featuring Keith Floyd and Rick Stein.

Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Roddy Forsyth
Interviewed guest: Sir Michael Parkinson
Interviewed guest: Tess Woodcraft
Interviewed guest: Adrian Lester
Interviewed guest: Colin Green
Interviewed guest: Tom Jaine

Archive clips from: Life Behind the News, Radio Scotland 18/01/2009; The Final Curtain, Radio Wales 28/08/2004; Today, Radio 4 14/09/1993; Giants Vlog, Tips for Actors, 23/10/2017; Jennie Buckman’s Beginnings Workshop, 18/06/2012; Westway, BBC World Service 03/04/2000; Piece of Silk by Jennie Buckman, The Hope Theatre, Giants Theatre Co 08/07/2016; Midweek, Radio 4 19/05/2010; Midweek, Radio 4 27/05/2009; Floyd’s American Pie: San Francisco, BBC Two 14/11/1989; The Food Programme, Radio 4  01/06/2015; Rick Stein’s Taste of the Sea, BBC Two 1995.

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