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Last Word: Lamont Dozier, Joan Lingard, Issey Miyake, Edana Minghella

19/08/2022

Lamont Dozier, Joan Lingard, Issey Miyake, Edana Minghella

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Lamont Dozier, Joan Lingard, Issey Miyake, Edana Minghella

John Wilson on a songwriter, a children's author, a fashion designer, a researcher

John Wilson on songwriter Lamont Dozier, children's author Joan Lingard, fashion designer Issey Miyake, mental health researcher Edana Minghella.

John Wilson on

Lamont Dozier (pictured), who wrote dozens of hits for Motown Records.

Joan Lingard, the author of the popular Kevin and Sadie books set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Issey Miyake, the Japanese fashion designer who survived the atomic bomb.

Edana Minghella, the mental health researcher and jazz singer.


Producer: Emily Finch

Interviewed guest: Eddie Holland
Interviewed guest: Adam White
Interviewed guest: Shelly Clark
Interviewed guest: Lindsey Fraser
Interviewed guest: Dana Thomas
Interviewed guest: Dai Fujiwara
Interviewed guest: Dominic Minghella
Interviewed guest: Jo Brand

Archive clips used: Radio 4, Front Row - Brian and Eddie Holland interview 25/12/2019; BBC Radio 1, David Jensen Show - Lamont Dozier interview 29/02/1984; Radio 4, Joan Lingard interview 01/01/1984; BBC Two, Maggie episode 1 17/02/1981; British Pathé, Atomic Bomb Destruction in Japan (1945); INA Société/YouTube Channel, Mai 68 et l'éducation (1968).

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