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Last Word: Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy, Dame Fanny Waterman

Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy, Dame Fanny Waterman

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Julian Worricker on Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy and Dame Fanny Waterman

Julian Worricker on the life stories of ska singer Millie Small, Wales and Lions rugby player JJ Williams, consumer champion Maurice Healy and pianist Dame Fanny Waterman.

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Millie Jones, the singer who brought ska rhythms and Jamaican culture to a global audience with her hit song My Boy Lollipop.

JJ Williams, the Llanelli, Wales and British Lions winger who became one of the stars of world rugby.

Dame Fanny Waterman, who co-founded the Leeds International Piano Festival and introduced many of the greatest pianists of our time.

And consumer champion Maurice Healy, editor of Which? magazine and director of the National Consumer Council, who was instrumental in bringing in shopping on a Sunday, cheaper air fares and better food labelling.

Interviewed guest: Chris Blackwell
Interviewed guest: Chris Salewicz
Interviewed guest: Phil Bennett
Interviewed guest: Petroc Trelawny
Interviewed guest: Richard Thomas

Producer: Paul Waters

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