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Last Word: Tony Garnett, Joy Rainey, Professor Cuchlaine King, Terry Jones

24/01/2020

Tony Garnett, Joy Rainey, Professor Cuchlaine King, Terry Jones

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Tony Garnett, Joy Rainey, Professor Cuchlaine King, Terry Jones

Matthew Bannister on a producer, a racing driver, a geomorphologist, a comedian

Matthew Bannister on producer Tony Garnett, racing driver Joy Rainey, geomorphologist Cuchlaine King, comedian and historian Terry Jones

Pictured: Terry Jones

Matthew Bannister on Tony Garnett, the TV and film producer whose tragic childhood inspired him to make influential films like Up The Junction, Cathy Come Home and Kes. 

Joy Rainey, the racing driver whose restricted growth meant she needed specially adapted cars.

Professor Cuchlaine King, the geomorphologist known for her studies of beaches, coasts and glaciers.

Terry Jones, best known as a member of the Monty Python team, but also a medieval historian of distinction.

Interviewed guest: Andreas Campomar
Interviewed guest: Eddie Walder
Interviewed guest: Professor Brian Whalley
Interviewed guest: Betsey Everett
Interviewed guest: Professor Alan Ereira

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: Free Thinking, Radio 3 28/06/2020; Afternoon Edition, 5Live 11/07/2016; Front Row, Radio 4 27/05/2013; Kes, directed by Ken Loach, United Artists 1970; The Wednesday Play: Up The Junction, BBC One 03/11/1965; The Wednesday Play: Cathy Come Home, BBC One 16/11/1966; This Life Series 1, Episode 3, BBC Two 01/04/1996; Front Row, Radio 4 22/01/2020; Desert Island Discs, Radio 4 02/07/1983; Monty Python’s Flying Circus, ‘The Funniest Joke in The World’ Sketch, BBC Two 05/10/1969; Life of Brian, directed by Terry Jones, Cinema International Corporation, 1979; 5Live Drive, 5Live 22/01/2020; Medieval Lives - The Peasant, BBC Two, 03/01/2004; The Story of 1, BBC Two, 28/09/2005.

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