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Last Word: Charlie Watts (pictured), Austin Mitchell, Hugh Wood, Sean Lock

27/08/2021

Charlie Watts (pictured), Austin Mitchell, Hugh Wood, Sean Lock

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Charlie Watts (pictured), Austin Mitchell, Hugh Wood, Sean Lock

Matthew Bannister on a drummer, a Labour MP, a composer and a comedian.

Matthew Bannister on drummer Charlie Watts, Labour MP Austin Mitchell, composer Hugh Wood and comedian Sean Lock.

Matthew Bannister on

The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts. We have a tribute from the boogie woogie pianist who played with Charlie in his other band.

The maverick Labour MP and TV presenter Austin Mitchell who fought for the fishing industry in his constituency of Great Grimsby, once changing his surname to 'Haddock' as a publicity stunt.

The composer Hugh Wood, remembered by his former student the pianist Joanna MacGregor. 

And the comedian Sean Lock, a regular on Channel Four’s panel show '8 Out of 10 Cats'. His friend and fellow comic Lee Mack pays tribute.

Producer: Lucy Wai

Archive clips used: Daily Politics: BBC Two, TX 13.11.12; BBC NEWS: BBC One, TX 1.2.1989; Woman's Hour: Radio 4, TX 23.8.2014; YORKSHIRE TV - September 1974; BBC Proms 2019: Radio 3, TX 29.8.2019; Cheltenham Festival 1999: London Mozart Players & Chilingirian Quartet; 15 Storeys High: Radio 4, TX  24.11.1999; Channel 4, You Tube page.

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