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Last Word: Michel Bacos,  Agnes Varda, Victor Hochhauser CBE, Barbara Low, Ranking Roger

05/04/2019

Michel Bacos,  Agnes Varda, Victor Hochhauser CBE, Barbara Low, Ranking Roger

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Michel Bacos,  Agnes Varda, Victor Hochhauser CBE, Barbara Low, Ranking Roger

Matthew Bannister on a pilot, a film director, an impresario, a biochemist and a singer.

Matthew Bannister on pilot Michel Bacos, film director Agnes Varda, impresario Victor Hochhauser, biochemist Barbara Low and singer Ranking Roger.

Pictured: Agnès Varda

Matthew Bannister on

Michel Bacos, the pilot of the Air France jet that was hi-jacked to Entebbe in 1976. He was offered the chance to leave, but chose to stay with the hostages until they were freed in a dramatic raid by the Israelis.

The film director Agnès Varda, known as the mother of the French New Wave.

The impresario Victor Hochhauser who specialised in bringing top Russian artists to the UK.

The biochemist Barbara Low who used X-ray crystallography to identify the structure of penicillin.

Ranking Roger, the singer and frontman of the 70s ska revival band The Beat.

Interviewed guest: Rosemary Bacos
Interviewed guest: Paul Martin
Interviewed guest: Terri White
Interviewed guest: Norman Lebrecht
Interviewed guest: Helen Berman
Interviewed guest: Pauline Black
Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: Raid on Entebbe, directed by Irvin Kershner, 20th Century Fox Television, Edgar J. Scherick Associates, 1977; La Pointe Courte, directed by Agnès Varda, Ciné Tamaris, 1956; Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda, Ciné Tamaris, Rome Paris Films, 1962; Front Row, Radio 4 13/07/2018; Today, Radio 4 30/03/2019; In Tune, Radio 3 17/11/2017; Liz Kershaw, 6 Music 09/07/2016.

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