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Last Word: Beryl Vertue CBE (pictured), Flavio Carboni, Phil Harvey, Lata Mangeshkar

Beryl Vertue CBE, Flavio Carboni, Phil Harvey, Lata Mangeshkar

Beryl Vertue CBE (pictured), Flavio Carboni, Phil Harvey, Lata Mangeshkar

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Beryl Vertue CBE (pictured), Flavio Carboni, Phil Harvey, Lata Mangeshkar

Matthew Bannister on a producer, a 'fixer', a businessman, a singer

Matthew Bannister on producer Beryl Vertue, 'fixer' Flavio Carboni, businessman Phil Harvey, singer Lata Mangeshkar

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Beryl Vertue, the TV and film producer who brought us 'Men Behaving Badly' and 'Sherlock'. The actors Martin Clunes and Martin Freeman pay tribute.

Flavio Carboni, the Italian wheeler dealer who was at the centre of many legal and political mysteries, including the death of the Vatican banker Roberto Calvi.

Phil Harvey, the American businessman who set up a chain of sex shops to fund the provision of birth control to millions of people in the developing world.

Lata Mangeshkar, who was seen as one of India’s most influential singers. She recorded songs in thirty six Indian languages.


Producer: Neil George 

Interviewed guest: Simon Nye
Interviewed guest: Martin Clunes
Interviewed guest: Martin Freeman
Interviewed guest: Philip Willan 
Interviewed guest: Simona Zecchi
Interviewed guest: Christopher Purdy
Interviewed guest: Anil Sinanan

Archive clips used: BBC RADIO 3, Free Thinking 09/06/2021; Thames TV/Hartswood Films, Men Behaving Badly S01 E01 18/02/1992; BBC/Hartswood Films, Men Behaving Badly S06 E01 06/11/1997; BBC/Hartswood Films, Sherlock 2010; BBC RADIO 4, Desert Island Discs 20/01/2013; YouTube, Italian Dinner Party 2010; BBC ONE, PANORAMA: Called To Account 20/12/1982; BBC NEWS, Report on Roberto Calvi 06/10/2005; BBC NEWS, Bomb Explosion in Bologna 03/08/1980; DKT International, Phil Harvey: Pioneer of Social Marketing 28/09/2015; YouTube/Telly TalkIndia, Lata Mangeshkar Funeral 07/02/2022.

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