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Last Word: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Max von Sydow, Professor Hannah Steinberg, Charles Portis

13/03/2020

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Max von Sydow, Professor Hannah Steinberg, Charles Portis

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Max von Sydow, Professor Hannah Steinberg, Charles Portis

Matthew Bannister on a diplomat, an actor, a psychopharmacologist, a writer.

Matthew Bannister on UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, actor Max von Sydow, psychopharmacologist Hannah Steinberg, writer Charles Portis.

Pictured: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Matthew Bannister on 

The United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. The Peruvian diplomat faced major challenges including the Iran-Iraq war and the Falklands War. 

Max von Sydow the Swedish-born actor whose film roles ranged from Ingmar Bergman to James Bond and, more recently, Game of Thrones.

Professor Hannah Steinberg - a pioneer of psychopharmacology - the study of the effects of drugs on the human mind. 

Charles Portis, the American writer best known for his novel "True Grit" which was twice adapted for the big screen.

Interviewed guest: Richard Gowan
Interviewed guest: Angela Errigo 
Interviewed guest: Sandra Fraser
Interviewed guest: Professor Clare Stanford
Interviewed guest: Michael Carlson
Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from:  Witness, BBC World Service 12/01/2012; Interview with Cuellar, The Classic Sports 17/11/1991; Iran/Iraq War, TV Eye 1980; Meeting Of The U.N. Security Council (Falklands Conflict), BBC Sound Archive 23/05/1982; Perez De Cuellar Admits Defeat, BBC Sound Archive 31/05/1984; UN 40th Anniversary: J. Perez De Cuellar, BBC Sound Archive 31/05/1984; Virendra Dayal on Cuellar, UN News 05/03/2020; The Seventh Seal, directed by Ingmar Bergman, Svensk Filmindustri 1957; The Film Programme, Radio 4 19/02/2012; The Greatest Story Ever Told, directed by George Stevens, George Stevens Productions 1965; Never Say Never Again, directed by Irvin Kershner, TaliaFilm II Productions/Woodcote/Producers Sales Organization (PSO) 1983; The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin, Warner Bros/Hoya Productions 1973; Liv Ullmann on Working with Max von Sydow, Criterion Collection 11/02/2019; The Simpsons: The War of Art, Fox Broadcasting Company 23/03/2014; Games of Thrones Season 6, HBO 24/04/2016; True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway, Wallis-Hazen 1969; True Grit, Radio 4 Extra 26/09/2016; True Grit, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, Paramount Pictures/Skydance Media/Scott Rudin Productions/Mike Zoss Productions 2010.

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