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Last Word: Jean-Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dennis Wilson, Mavis Nicholson

Jean Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dennis Wilson, Mavis Nicholson

Jean-Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dennis Wilson, Mavis Nicholson

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Jean-Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dennis Wilson, Mavis Nicholson

Kirsty Lang on a film-maker, a writer, a war poet and a broadcaster.

Kirsty Lang on film-maker Jean-Luc Godard, writer and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, war poet Dennis Wilson, and Welsh broadcaster Mavis Nicholson.

Kirsty Lang on Jean-Luc Godard (pictured), the critic and filmmaker who revolutionised French cinema.

The writer and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, whose bestseller 'Nickel and Dimed', is considered a classic in social justice literature.

Captain Dennis Wilson, the Normandy veteran whose war poems were ranked alongside Wilfred Owen’s...

And Mavis Nicholson, the Welsh broadcaster with a knack for making her subjects talk about matters that they had never previously confronted in public.


Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Ian Christie
Interviewed guest: Professor James Williams
Interviewed guest: Alissa Quart
Interviewed guest: Professor Tim Crook
Interviewed guest: Steve Nicholson
Interviewed guest: Maureen Lipman

Archive clips used: Les Films de la Pléiade/ Pathé Consortium Cinéma, Vivre Sa Vie (1962) - Trailer; Daphne Productions Inc/ WNET/ Thirteen, The Dick Cavett Show – Interview with Jean-Luc Godard 23/10/1980; Les Films Impéria/ Les Productions Georges de Beauregard/ Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC), À bout de souffle (1960) - Trailer; Rome Paris Films/ Les Films Concordia/ Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, Le Mépris (1963) - Clip; BBC Radio 3, Night Waves 30/01/2003; BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour – Barbara Ehrenreich interview 22/09/2008; BBC Radio 4, Today Programme – Captain Dennis Wilson interview 19/11/2013; Thames TV/ Pineapple Productions, Mavis catches up with Kenny Everett – jingle 15/11/1989; Thames TV/ Channel 4 , Mavis on 4 – Elizabeth Taylor interview 10/02/1988; Thames TV, Afternoon Plus – David Bowie interview 16/02/1979; BBC Wales, Being Mavis Nicholson: TV’s Greatest Interviewer 25/08/2016.

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