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Last Word: Mario Molina, Irina Antonova, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Peter Alliss (pictured)

11/12/2020

Mario Molina, Irina Antonova, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Peter Alliss (pictured)

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Mario Molina, Irina Antonova, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Peter Alliss (pictured)

Matthew Bannister on a chemist, a curator, a President, a golf commentator.

Matthew Bannister on chemist Mario Molina, curator Irina Antonova, French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, golf commentator Peter Alliss.

Matthew Bannister on

Mario Molina, the chemist who won the Nobel prize for revealing the devastating impact of CFCs on the ozone layer.

Irina Antonova, the director of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for more than fifty years. She was caught up in a controversy over her refusal to send back priceless works of art looted by the Soviet Army at the end of the Second World War.

Valery Giscard d’Estaing, President of France between 1974 and 1981. He introduced liberal social reforms and was a passionate supporter of closer European integration. 

Peter Alliss, the jovial former player who became known as TV’s “Voice of Golf”

Interviewed guest: Tony Adamson
Interviewed guest: Prof James Shields
Interviewed guest: Konstantin Akinsha
Interviewed guest: Dr Tony Cox

Producer: Neil George

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