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Last Word: Janice Long (pictured), Marvin Hagler, Esther Bejarano, Leslie Bricusse

31/12/2021

Janice Long (pictured), Marvin Hagler, Esther Bejarano, Leslie Bricusse

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Janice Long (pictured), Marvin Hagler, Esther Bejarano, Leslie Bricusse

Julian Worricker on a DJ, a boxer, a Holocaust survivor and a songwriter.

Julian Worricker on DJ Janice Long, boxer Marvin Hagler, Auschwitz survivor Esther Bejarano, songwriter Leslie Bricusse.

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Janice Long, the pioneering female DJ who was heard on Radios 1 and 2 and was a familiar face on Top of the Pops.

“Marvellous” Marvin Hagler, one of the greatest middleweight boxing champions of all time.

Esther Bejarano, one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz women’s orchestra who devoted her life to campaigning against racism.

Leslie Bricusse OBE, the prolific songwriter behind dozens of hits for stage and screen, including songs for the Bond films, Willy Wonka and Doctor Dolittle.

Producer: Dan Hardoon

Interviewed guest: Annie Nightingale CBE
Interviewed guest: Peter “Hooky” Hook
Interviewed guest: Sugar Ray Leonard
Interviewed guest: John McDonald
Interviewed guest: Antonella Romeo
Interviewed guest: Kutlu Yurtseven
Interviewed guest: Evie Bricusse
Interviewed guest: Dame Joan Collins
Interviewed guest: Craig McLean

Archive clips from: YouTube, Janice Long Radio 2 Presenter on 3-2-1 in 1978; YouTube, Janice Long 1986 interview with Billy Jam 10/09/2020; Top of the Pops, BBC1 07/03/1985; Rob Bonnett interview with Marvin Hagler, BBC TV 11/06/2005; On Side, BBC1 09/03/1998; YouTube, Marvin Hagler vs Alan Minter 1980, Fight Collective 07/03/2021; YouTube, Marvin Hagler vs Sugar Ray Leonard, Top Rank Boxing 06/04/2020; YouTube, Esther Bejarano & Coincidence, ‘Mir Lebn Ejbig’; BBC4, Shooting the War: Women 03/02/2010; YouTube, Kölner Treff - Mit Jeanette Hain und Esther Bejarano 30/03/2019; Esther Bejarano & Microphone Mafia, ‘Avanti Popolo’; BBC Radio 2, Graham Norton 05/11/2017.

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