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Last Word: Albert Uderzo, Valerie Pettit OBE, Reverend Joseph Lowery, Julie Felix

03/04/2020

Albert Uderzo, Valerie Pettit OBE, Reverend Joseph Lowery, Julie Felix

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Albert Uderzo, Valerie Pettit OBE, Reverend Joseph Lowery, Julie Felix

Matthew Bannister on an MI6 officer, a cartoonist, a civil rights leader, a singer.

Matthew Bannister on intelligence officer Valerie Pettit, cartoonist Albert Uderzo, civil rights leader the Reverend Joseph Lowery, singer Julie Felix.

Pictured: Albert Uderzo

Matthew Bannister on

Valerie Pettit OBE, the senior MI6 officer in charge of the daring operation to get Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky out of Russia after his cover was blown.

Albert Uderzo – the French cartoonist who created Asterix the Gaul.

Reverend Joseph Lowery – the leading American civil rights activist who worked alongside Martin Luther King in the campaign for black equality.

Julie Felix – the American-born singer who became known as the first lady of British folk.

Interviewed guest: Ben Macintyre
Interviewed guest: Agnes Poirier
Interviewed guest: Dr Paul Smith
Interviewed guest: Henrietta Giles
Interviewed guest: Fran Collier

Producer: Neil George

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