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Last Word: Kenzo Takada, Colonel John Waddy, Frank Windsor, Ann Getty

09/10/2020

Kenzo Takada, Colonel John Waddy, Frank Windsor, Ann Getty

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Kenzo Takada, Colonel John Waddy, Frank Windsor, Ann Getty

Matthew Bannister on a designer, a soldier, an actor, a socialite

Matthew Bannister on designer Kenzo Takada, soldier Colonel John Waddy, actor Frank Windsor, socialite Ann Getty

Pictured: Kenzo Takada

Matthew Bannister on:

Kenzo Takada, the Japanese-born fashion designer who made Paris his home and was known for his bold use of colour.

Colonel John Waddy, the former head of the SAS who was wounded at the Battle of Arnhem.

Frank Windsor, the actor best known for playing Detective Sergeant Watt in Z Cars and Softly Softly.

Ann Getty, who married into the Getty family and used her fortune to rescue a publishing house, support the arts and start an interior design company.

Interviewed guest: Dana Thomas
Interviewed guest: John O’Reilly
Interviewed guest: Niall Cherry
Interviewed guest: Amanda Windsor
Interviewed guest: Bill Fellows
Interviewed guest: Diane Dorrans Saeks

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: Flower by Kenzo, directed by Patrick Guedj 2018; The Clothes Show: Catwalk Special, BBC One 23/10/1994; Kenzo Takada – Renegades of Fashion, Fashion Industry Broadcast 01/03/2020; Red Devils of Arnhem (1944), British Pathe 13/04/2014; Today, Radio 4 08/05/2020; A Bridge Too Far, directed by Richard Attenborough, Joseph E Levine Productions 1977; Oosterbeek Battlefield Tour 2011, Bart H 18/03/2016; Woman’s Hour, Radio 2 24/03/1971.

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