Last Word

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Last Word: Julian Bream CBE, Elizabeth Ward OBE, Chris Graham-Bell, Stuart Christie

Julian Bream CBE, Elizabeth Ward OBE, Chris Graham-Bell, Stuart Christie

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Julian Bream CBE, Elizabeth Ward OBE, Chris Graham-Bell, Stuart Christie

Matthew Bannister on a guitarist, a campaigner, a publisher, an anarchist.

Matthew Bannister on guitarist Julian Bream, campaigner Elizabeth Ward, publisher Chris Graham-Bell, anarchist Stuart Christie.

Pictured: Julian Bream 

Matthew Bannister on

Julian Bream, said by many to be the greatest classical guitarist of all time. 

Elizabeth Ward, who campaigned for the introduction of the kidney donor card after her son went through three transplants.

Chris Graham-Bell, the founding publisher of the Gay Times magazine.

Stuart Christie, the anarchist who was involved in a plot to blow up the Spanish dictator General Franco.

Interviewed guest: Lord Michael Berkeley CBE
Interviewed guest: Andrew Green
Interviewed guest: Sally Taber
Interviewed guest: Nigel Bell
Interviewed guest: Robert Hanwell
Interviewed guest: Branwen Christie
Interviewed guest: Duncan Campbell

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: Julian Bream: My Life in Music, Avie 2006; Man With A Guitar, BBC Sound Archive 25/09/1961; East Midlands Today, BBC One 22/05/1997; Man Alive, BBC Two 14/02/1980; Newsroom South East, BBC One 17/06/1991; Profile: Stuart Christie, Radio 4 10/07/1981; By Fair Means or Foul, Radio 4 20/11/1973; Angry Brigade Trial, Sound Archive, Radio 4 06/12/1972.

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