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Last Word: Nawal El Saadawi (pictured), Brigadier Jack Thomas, President John Magufuli, Ion Mihai Pacepa

Nawal El Saadawi, Brigadier Jack Thomas, President John Magufuli, Ion Mihai Pacepa

Nawal El Saadawi (pictured), Brigadier Jack Thomas, President John Magufuli, Ion Mihai Pacepa

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Nawal El Saadawi (pictured), Brigadier Jack Thomas, President John Magufuli, Ion Mihai Pacepa

Matthew Bannister on a feminist writer, a soldier, a president and a spy.

Matthew Bannister on feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, Birgadier Jack Thomas, President John Magufuli and Romanian spy Ion Mihai Pacepa.

Matthew Bannister on:

The Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi who faced persecution and imprisonment but never wavered from her commitment to campaigning for women’s rights.

Brigadier Jack Thomas who had a distinguished military career, serving during the Second World War, the Korean war and in Northern Ireland.

John Magufuli, the autocratic President of Tanzania who advocated prayer and inhaling herbal infusions as a way of tackling the Coronavirus pandemic.

Ion Mihai Pacepa, the senior Romanian intelligence officer who defected to the West and lived the rest of his life under a secret identity. 

Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Mona Eltahawy
Interviewed guest: Sally Nabil
Interviewed guest: John Thomas 
Interviewed guest: Brigadier Norman Allen
Interviewed guest: Zuhura Yunus
Interviewed guest: Prof Ronald Rychlak

Archive clips used: Woman’s Hour: Radio 4, TX 25.7.2011; Woman at Point Zero: Radio 4, TX 19.4.1993; Breakfast News: BBC One, TX 14.7.1988

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