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Last Word: Madeleine Albright (pictured), Peter Padfield, Christina Smith, Sheila Paine

01/04/2022

Madeleine Albright (pictured), Peter Padfield, Christina Smith, Sheila Paine

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Madeleine Albright (pictured), Peter Padfield, Christina Smith, Sheila Paine

Matthew Bannister on a US politician, a naval historian, an entrepreneur, a textile expert

Matthew Bannister on US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, naval historian Peter Padfield, entrepreneur Christina Smith, textile expert Sheila Paine

Matthew Bannister on

The first female US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was a leading advocate of the NATO bombing campaign aimed at stopping ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.

Peter Padfield, the naval historian who as a young man took part in the reconstruction of the voyage of the Mayflower from the UK to the USA.

Christina Smith, the colourful entrepreneur known as “the queen of Covent Garden” for her property and business development in that area of London.

Sheila Paine, who travelled to remote areas of the world to build up a renowned collection of textiles.

Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Jim Naughtie 
Interviewed guest: Tom Lippman
Interviewed guest: Fiona Padfield 
Interviewed guest: Andrew Lambert
Interviewed guest: Dame Rosemary Anne Squire DBE
Interviewed guest: Nick Fielding

Archive used: One to One: Madeleine Albright, BBC Two, TX 12.9.2005; A Woman Called Smith, BBC Two, TX 30.4.1997

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