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Last Word: Dame Paula Rego (pictured), Bruce Kent, Hilary Devey CBE

Dame Paula Rego (pictured), Bruce Kent, Hilary Devey

Dame Paula Rego (pictured), Bruce Kent, Hilary Devey CBE

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Dame Paula Rego (pictured), Bruce Kent, Hilary Devey CBE

Matthew Bannister on an artist, a campaigner and an entrepreneur.

Matthew Bannister on artist Dame Paula Rego, campaigner Bruce Kent and entrepreneur Hilary Devey CBE.

Matthew Bannister on

Dame Paula Rego, the acclaimed Portuguese-born artist who later made her home in the UK and was renowned for making vivid and disturbing work focussing on the subjugation of women. We talk to her son Nick Willing. 

Bruce Kent, the Catholic priest who became a leader of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. 

Hilary Devey CBE, who founded a multi-million pound freight distribution business and was one of the Dragons on the TV show Dragons Den. 


Producer: Neil George 

Interviewed guest: Nick Willing
Interviewed guest: Jacky Klein
Interviewed guest: Kate Hudson

Archive clips used: BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs - Dame Paula Rego 07/12/1997; Kismet Film Company/ BBC, Paula Rego - Secrets and Stories 25/03/2017; Eric Minh Swenson Art Films, Samella Lewis - Pioneering Visual Artist and Educator 19/12/2016; BBC Radio Ulster, Bruce Kent documentary 13/03/1988; British Movietone, Aldermaston March - Natural Sound 12/04/1963; British Movietone, The March to Aldermaston in Trafalgar Square 10/04/1958; BBC Radio 4, PM - Cardinal Basil Hume interview 27/04/1983; BBC News, Troops Erect Fence Around RAF Molesworth Base 06/02/1985; CND - YouTube Channel, Bruce Kent - Why I joined CND 18/02/2018; BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs - Hilary Devey 02/11/2012; BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour - Hilary Devey interview 24/05/2012; BBC One, Dragons' Den (Season 10) 2012; ITV Studios - YouTube Channel, Loose Women - Hilary Devey interview 03/06/2015.

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