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Last Word: Jacques Chirac, Sir Michael Edwardes, Cokie Roberts, Pat Cavendish O’Neill

Jacques Chirac, Sir Michael Edwardes, Cokie Roberts, Pat Cavendish O’Neill

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Jacques Chirac, Sir Michael Edwardes, Cokie Roberts, Pat Cavendish O’Neill

Julian Worricker on a politician, a business leader, a TV journalist, a racehorse trainer.

Julian Worricker on former French president Jacques Chirac; Sir Michael Edwardes, chairman of British Leyland; TV journalist Cokie Roberts; racehorse trainer Pat Cavendish O'Neill.

Pictured: Jacques Chirac

Julian Worricker on:

Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris for eighteen years, who served twice as French Prime Minister and twice as French president....

The man who took on the toughest of managerial assignments - running British Leyland in the late 1970s - Sir Michael Edwardes....

US television journalist and presenter, Cokie Roberts, credited with changing the role of women in the newsroom....

Pat Cavendish O'Neill, the racehorse trainer and breeder, who built up a menagerie of rescue animals in Kenya and South Africa.

Interviewed guest: Agnes Poirier
Interviewed guest: Nick Jones
Interviewed guest: Michael Goldfarb
Interviewed guest: Mark McGinness

Producer: Neil George 

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