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Last Word: Ronan O'Rahilly, Sir John Houghton CBE, Sue Davies OBE, Barbara Smoker

01/05/2020

Ronan O'Rahilly, Sir John Houghton CBE, Sue Davies OBE, Barbara Smoker

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Ronan O'Rahilly, Sir John Houghton CBE, Sue Davies OBE, Barbara Smoker

Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an atmospheric physicist, a curator, an atheist

Matthew Bannister on businessman Ronan O’Rahilly, atmospheric physicist Sir John Houghton, curator Sue Davies, atheist Barbara Smoker

Pictured: Ronan O’Rahilly

Matthew Bannister on

Ronan O’Rahilly, the Irish businessman who ran the pirate radio station Radio Caroline on a ship off the coast of Essex.

Sir John Houghton, the atmospheric physicist who was Director of the Met Office and co-chair of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change.

Sue Davies, who founded and ran the Photographers' Gallery in London, supporting the careers of many leading photographers.

Barbara Smoker, the outspoken atheist and anarchist who was President of the National Secular Society.

Interviewed guest: Ray Clark
Interviewed guest: Hannah Malcolm
Interviewed guest: Dave Roberts
Interviewed guest: Paul Hardaker
Interviewed guest: Amanda Hopkinson
Interviewed guest: Chris Steele-Perkins
Interviewed guest: Professor Anthony Costello
Interviewed guest: Denis Cobell

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: Arena: Caroline 199: A Pirate's Tale, BBC Two 01/03/1991; The Story of Pop, Radio 1 26/01/1974; Ray Clark on Radio Caroline 1987; Belief, Radio 3 10/06/2012; Interview with Sue Davies, courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery; Seeds of Faith, Radio 4 14/07/1996; Today, Radio 4 16/12/2002.

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