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Last Word: Sir Brian Urquhart (pictured), Albert Roux, Dame Rachel Waterhouse, Gerry Marsden

Sir Brian Urquhart, Albert Roux, Dame Rachel Waterhouse, Gerry Marsden

Sir Brian Urquhart (pictured), Albert Roux, Dame Rachel Waterhouse, Gerry Marsden

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Sir Brian Urquhart (pictured), Albert Roux, Dame Rachel Waterhouse, Gerry Marsden

Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a chef, a consumer champion, a singer.

Matthew Bannister on civil servant Sir Brian Urquhart, chef Albert Roux, consumer champion Dame Rachel Waterhouse and singer Gerry Marsden.

Matthew Bannister on

Sir Brian Urquhart, the international civil servant and war veteran who played a key role in setting up United Nations peacekeeping forces.

Albert Roux, the French-born chef who, with his brother Michel, helped to revolutionise the quality of British restaurant cooking.

Dame Rachel Waterhouse, the chair of the Consumers’ Association whose campaigns were behind many significant improvements in consumer legislation. 

And Gerry Marsden, lead singer of Gerry and the Pacemakers, best known for his hit versions of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “Ferry ‘Cross The Mersey”.

Interviewed guest: Alison Bernays 
Interviewed guest: Andrew Gilmour
Interviewed guest: Rowley Leigh
Interviewed guest: Brian Yates
Interviewed guest: Peter Parfet 
Interviewed guest: Spencer Leigh

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips used: Profile: Brian Urquhart, Radio 4, 28.2.1981; Pathe News – Shaping the Future; The Liberation of Bergen Belsen –WS Historic Moments; Desert Island Discs: Albert & Michel Roux, Radio 4, 1986; Albert & Michel Roux on Roux Scholarship – YouTube; File on 4: Quangos, Radio 4, 7.6.1978; Farming Today, Radio 4, 17.10.1988

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