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Last Word: John McAfee (pictured), Trần Thiện Khiêm, Karla Burns, Horace 'Lyle' Hutley

John McAfee, Trần Thiện Khiêm, Karla Burns, Horace 'Lyle' Hutley

John McAfee (pictured), Trần Thiện Khiêm, Karla Burns, Horace 'Lyle' Hutley

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, John McAfee (pictured), Trần Thiện Khiêm, Karla Burns, Horace 'Lyle' Hutley

Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a general, a singer, a war veteran.

Matthew Bannister on businessman John McAfee, General Trần Thiện Khiêm, singer Karla Burns and war veteran Horace 'Lyle' Hutley.

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The controversial American businessman John McAfee who made his first fortune selling anti-virus software, retreated into a compound in Belize where he was suspected of links with organised crime, campaigned to win the Presidential nomination for the Libertarian party and was found hanged in a Spanish prison cell after facing extradition on fraud and tax evasion charges. 

General Trần Thiện Khiêm, a key player in the 'snake pit' of coup and counter coup that destabilised the government of South Vietnam during the war of the 1960s.

Karla Burns, the Broadway and West End singer who became the first black person to win an Olivier Award. 

Horace 'Lyle' Hutley, thought to be the last surviving prisoner of war who worked on the infamous bridge over the River Kwai.

Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Michael Carlson
Interviewed guest: Nanette Burstein
Interviewed guest: Professor Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
Interviewed guest: Bill Ripper
Interviewed guest: Allan Mallinson

Archive clips used: CNBC News, 24/06/2021; Soft Focus with Jena Friedman, Adult Swim 2019; John McAfee on Larry King, Ora TV 11/03/2016; President Johnson Speaks on the Vietnam Crisis, British Pathe 1964; The Fall of Saigon, CBC News 1975; One On One, PBS 02/01/2019; It’s All Good With Sierra, Wichita Public TV 14/06/2012; The Battle of Dunkirk, British Pathe 1940; The Fall of Singapore, British Pathe/Gaumont/Reuters 1942; Far East Prisoners of War Return Home, British Movietone 11/10/1945.

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