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Last Word: Stuart Wheeler, Josephine Cox, Miloš Jakeš, Peter Green

31/07/2020

Stuart Wheeler, Josephine Cox, Miloš Jakeš, Peter Green

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Stuart Wheeler, Josephine Cox, Miloš Jakeš, Peter Green

Matthew Bannister on a financier, an author, a politician, a guitarist.

Matthew Bannister on financier Stuart Wheeler, author Josephine Cox, politician Miloš Jakeš, guitarist Peter Green.

Pictured: Stuart Wheeler

Matthew Bannister on

Stuart Wheeler, the spread betting tycoon who used his millions to fund anti-EU political parties and campaigns.

Josephine Cox, the multi-million selling author whose novels often drew on her working class childhood in Blackburn.

Miloš Jakeš, the General Secretary of the Czech Communist Party at the time of the Velvet Revolution.

Peter Green, the revered guitarist who founded Fleetwood Mac, but later suffered severe mental health problems.

Interviewed guest: Philip Collins
Interviewed guest: Kimberley Young 
Interviewed guest: Professor Mary Heimann 
Interviewed guest: Bernie Marsden

Producer: Steven Williams

Archive clips from: HARDtalk, BBC News 24 11/10/2019; General Election, ITN 24/05/2001; Nigel Farage on Stuart Wheeler, VoteLeaveMedia 02/04/2009; A Woman’s Fortune by Josephine Cox, read by Carole Boyd, Audible/HarperCollins 2018; Woman's Hour, Radio 4 02/09/1999; Woman’s Hour, Radio 4 09/10/2001; The Lion’s Den by Josephine Cox, read by Robert Glenister, Radio 4 Extra 24/04/2011; The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968, BBC News 21/08/2018; Miloš Jakeš speech, Radio Free Europe 17/07/1989; People’s Century: 1989: People Power, BBC One 16/02/1997; BBC News, BBC One 10/12/1989; Peter Green: Man of the World, BBC Four 04/02/2011; The Works: Peter Green: A Hard Road, BBC Two 03/10/1996.

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