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Last Word: Stuart King, Comrade Duch, Deirdre Le Faye, David Bryant CBE

Stuart King, Comrade Duch, Deirdre Le Faye, David Bryant CBE

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Stuart King, Comrade Duch, Deirdre Le Faye, David Bryant CBE

Julian Worricker on a pioneering humanitarian, an executioner, a scholar, a sportsman.

Julian Worricker on charity co-founder Stuart King, Khmer Rouge executioner Comrade Duch, Jane Austen scholar Deirdre Le Faye, bowls champion David Bryant.

Pictured: Stuart King

Julian Worricker on:
 
Stuart King, who co-founded a humanitarian charity which involved perilous flights to southern Africa in light aircraft straight after the war....
 
The Khmer Rouge executioner, known as Comrade Duch, found guilty of some of the worst atrocities carried out by that regime in Cambodia....
 
Deirdre Le Faye, a scholar and professor, whose knowledge of the life and works of Jane Austen has been described as 'unparalleled'.....
 
And the man with the pipe whose success on the bowling greens raised the profile of his sport, David Bryant.

Interviewed guest: Max Grove
Interviewed guest: Jonathan Head
Interviewed guest: Nic Dunlop
Interviewed guest: Dr Gillian Dow
Interviewed guest: David Rhys Jones

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from:  70 Years of MAF, MAF 2020; Remembering D-Day, MAF 2020; Today, Radio 4 30/03/2009; Comrade Duch Dies, Bloomberg Quick Take News 02/09/2020; Duch Statements Apology, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia 15/08/2012; Jane Austen’s iPod, Radio 4 06/06/2010; 11th Commonwealth Games 1978, BBC Sound Archive, 10/08/1978; David Bryant Interviewed by Brian Roberts, Today, Radio 4 01/11/1966; Bowling Tips From David Bryant, Bowls UK 18/09/2016.

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