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Last Word: John Lewis, Tony Elliott CBE, Wendy Cooling, Dr Alan Howard

John Lewis, Tony Elliott, Wendy Cooling, Dr Alan Howard

John Lewis, Tony Elliott CBE, Wendy Cooling, Dr Alan Howard

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, John Lewis, Tony Elliott CBE, Wendy Cooling, Dr Alan Howard

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a publisher, an educationalist and a nutritionist.

Matthew Bannister on civil rights campaigner John Lewis, publisher Tony Elliott, educationalist Wendy Cooling and nutritionist Alan Howard.

Matthew Bannister on
 
John Lewis, the leading American civil rights campaigner who was beaten and imprisoned in the 1960s when he marched with Martin Luther King and later served as a Congressman.
 
Tony Elliott CBE, who founded the listings magazine Time Out and oversaw its transformation into a global brand.
 
Wendy Cooling, the former teacher who, through the Bookstart scheme, gave millions of babies and toddlers their first books.
 
Dr Alan Howard, the nutritionist who came up with the Cambridge Diet which became an international commercial success.


Producer: Neil George

Interviewed Guest: Bob Harris
Interviewed Guest: Alan Yentob
Interviewed Guest: Michael Carlson
Interviewed Guest: Justin Somper
Interviewed Guest: Jon Howard
Interviewed Guest: Julio Bruno

Archive clips from: Tomorrow's People, BBC 15/04/1972; Woman's Hour, Radio 4, 01/02/2008; The Perfect Diet?, BBC 2 28/11/1987

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