Last Word

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Last Word: Sir William Macpherson (pictured), Margaret Snyder, Eleanor Wadsworth, Iain Pattinson

Sir William Macpherson (pictured), Margaret Snyder, Eleanor Wadsworth, Iain Pattinson

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Sir William Macpherson (pictured), Margaret Snyder, Eleanor Wadsworth, Iain Pattinson

Matthew Bannister on: a judge, a UN civil servant, a pilot, a comedy writer.

Matthew Bannister on judge Sir William Macpherson, UN civil servant Margaret Snyder, pilot Eleanor Wadsworth and comedy writer Iain Pattinson.

Matthew Bannister on

Sir William Macpherson, the retired judge whose report on the investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence accused the Metropolitan Police of “institutional racism”.

Margaret Snyder, seen by some as the United Nations’ first feminist.  She established funds and projects to support women in developing countries.

Eleanor Wadsworth, one of the last surviving women who delivered fighter planes during the second world war.

Iain Pattinson, who gave up a career as an oil company executive to write jokes once described as “blue chip filth” for “I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue”.

Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Lord Brown 
Interviewed guest: Joshua Rozenberg
Interviewed guest: Marilyn Carr 
Interviewed guest: Wanjira Mathai
Interviewed guest: Jon Naismith
Interviewed guest: Nick Utechin 
Interviewed guest: Jack Dee

Archive clips from: Pathe News (A.T.A. 1943); Kaleidoscope: Radio 4, TX 9.2.1991; I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue: Radio 4, TX 15.12.2020 and TX 21.6.1999.

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