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Last Word: Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE (pictured), Sir Nicholas Goodison, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Joyce Shrubbs

13/08/2021

Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE (pictured), Sir Nicholas Goodison, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Joyce Shrubbs

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE (pictured), Sir Nicholas Goodison, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Joyce Shrubbs

Matthew Bannister on a poet, a stockbroker, a Muslim teacher, a military observer

Matthew bannister on poet Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE, stockbroker Sir Nicholas Goodison, Muslim teacher Abdalqadir as-Sufi, military observer Joyce Shrubbs.

Matthew Bannister on 

The Jamaican-born poet Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze MBE, who was known for her compelling performances. We have a tribute from Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Sir Nicholas Goodison, chairman of the stock exchange at the time of the Big Bang  in the 1980s and also a noted expert on antique clocks.

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, the influential Muslim teacher who was born Ian Dallas, worked as an actor and script writer in the 1960s and converted to Islam after a visit to the holy city of Fez in Morocco.  

Joyce Shrubbs, who joined the Royal Observer Corps during World War II and rose to become its highest ranking woman officer.


Producer: Laura Northedge

Interviewed guest: Justin Urquhart Stewart
Interviewed guest: Jonathan Betts
Interviewed guest: Linton Kwesi Johnson 
Interviewed guest: Dona Croll
Interviewed guest: Shaykh Paul Salahuddin Armstrong
Interviewed guest: Yasin Dutton
Interviewed guest: Michael Marks
Interviewed guest: Edwina Holden

Archive clips used: Pathe News, London stock exchange during Second World War; Cineriz, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2; Cyclops TV, documentary Sentinels of Britain.

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