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Last Word: Sir Michael Rutter (pictured), Christopher Wenner, Sister Megan Rice, Jeanette Altwegg

Sir Michael Rutter (pictured), Christopher Wenner, Sister Megan Rice, Jeanette Altwegg

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Sir Michael Rutter (pictured), Christopher Wenner, Sister Megan Rice, Jeanette Altwegg

Matthew Bannister on a psychiatrist, a film maker, a campaigner, a figure skater

Matthew Bannister on psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, film maker Christopher Wenner, campaigner Sister Megan Rice, figure skater Jeanette Altwegg.

Matthew Bannister on

Sir Michael Rutter who was known as the 'father of child psychiatry'. He pioneered research into many aspects of child development.

Christopher Wenner - also known as Max Stahl -  who changed career from Blue Peter TV presenter to intrepid documentary film maker.

Sister Megan Rice, the American nun who campaigned against nuclear weapons. She was arrested and sent to prison for breaking into a uranium processing plant.

Jeanette Altwegg,  the last British woman to win the individual Olympic Gold Medal for figure skating back in 1952. 



Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Edmund Sonuga-Barke 
Interviewed guest: Stephen Scott
Interviewed guest: Martin Wenner
Interviewed guest: David Butcher
Interviewed guest: Carole Sargent
Interviewed guest: Peter Mason
Interviewed guest: Susan D Russell

Archive clips used: BBC Radio 4, The Life Scientific - Sir Michael Rutter 03/06/2014; BBC TV, Blue Peter 18/06/1979; JOURNEYMAN TV, REF 4701 Dili Massacre 12/07/1994; ABC Australia, British journalist and television presenter passes away 28/10/2021; MSNBC, Nun Prisoned For Anti-Nuclear Protest Released 21/05/2015; British Pathé, Atomic Tests in Nevada 1955; Washington Post, The Nun Who Broke Into a US Nuclear... 30/04/2013; War Register's International, Sister Megan Rice Talk In London 08/02/2016; British Pathé, British Amateur Figure Skating 1947; British Movietone, British Women in Winter Olympics 25/02/1952; BBC Sound Archive, Olympic Games Skating 02/02/1952; AP /Movietone, Jeannette Altwegg wins European Figure Skating 08/02/1951.

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