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Last Word: Dr Stanley Ho, Roger Fellows, Margaret Meek Spencer, Mory Kanté

05/06/2020

Dr Stanley Ho, Roger Fellows, Margaret Meek Spencer, Mory Kanté

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Dr Stanley Ho, Roger Fellows, Margaret Meek Spencer, Mory Kanté

Julian Worricker on a political campaigner, a gambling tycoon, an educationist, a musician

Julian Worricker on political campaigner Roger Fellows, gambling tycoon Stanley Ho, educationist Margaret Meek Spencer, musician Mory Kanté.

Pictured: Stanley Ho

Julian Worricker on:

The man praised by both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for being the architect of the national minimum wage, Roger Fellows….

One of Asia’s richest men - the gambling tycoon, Stanley Ho, who transformed the economy of Macau….

The educationist Margaret Meek Spencer, who influenced a generation of children and teachers by emphasising the joy of reading...

And the musician who wrote and performed the first African single to sell a million copies around the world, Mory Kanté.

Interviewed guest: Chris Pond
Interviewed guest: Liz Barclay
Interviewed guest: Jill McGivering
Interviewed guest: Julia Eccleshare
Interviewed guest: Robin Denselow

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: Labour Party Conference, BBC News 1995; Tokyo Celebrates Victory in China, Pathé News 1938; The Money Makers: Betting On A Certainty, BBC Two 18/03/1986; Stanley Ho interview, CNN 26/05/2020; Today, Radio 4 07/06/1997; Macau handover to China, AP Archive 23/07/2015; Correspondent: Hong Kong, BBC Two 07/06/1997; Reading Between The Lines, Radio 4 03/06/2012; Ted Hughes reads The Iron Man, Iconic, 24/10/2011; Mory Kanté interview, L’invité, 03/07/2012.

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