Last Word

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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

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Last Word: Jamal Edwards MBE, P.J. O'Rourke (pictured), Romaine Hart OBE, Ronnie Campbell

Romaine Hart, PJ O'Rourke (pictured), Ronnie Campbell, Jamal Edwards

Jamal Edwards MBE, P.J. O'Rourke (pictured), Romaine Hart OBE, Ronnie Campbell

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Jamal Edwards MBE, P.J. O'Rourke (pictured), Romaine Hart OBE, Ronnie Campbell

Matthew Bannister on a music entrepreneur, a writer, a cinema owner, a crofter

Matthew Bannister on music entrepreneur Jamal Edwards, writer P.J. O’Rourke, cinema owner Romaine Hart, crofter Ronnie Campbell

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Jamal Edwards, the young music entrepreneur whose YouTube channel supported the careers of grime and rap stars like Dave, Skepta and Stormzy. 

P.J. O’Rourke, the conservative American satirist who applied his barbed wit to reporting from the world’s trouble spots. 

Romaine Hart, whose Screen on the Green cinema gave a platform to art house films and was described by Quentin Tarantino as “the coolest cinema in London”.

Ronnie Campbell, the Scottish crofter and land rights campaigner who is thought to have been the last Highland drover, taking flocks of sheep on long distance journeys by foot.


Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Crystal Mahey-Morgan
Interviewed guest: Michael Goldfarb
Interviewed guest: Nicola Hart
Interviewed guest: Kenny Mackintosh


Archive clips used: BBC Radio 4: Bookclub, TX 5.2.2006; BBC Radio 4: The Report, TX 11.2.2016

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