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Last Word: Dame Angela Lansbury, Lady Keswick, Sacheen Littlefeather, Franca Fendi

Dame Angela Lansbury, Lady Keswick, Sacheen Littlefeather, Franca Fendi

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Dame Angela Lansbury, Lady Keswick, Sacheen Littlefeather, Franca Fendi

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a special adviser, a campaigner, a businesswoman

Matthew Bannister on actor Angela Lansbury, special adviser Lady Keswick, campaigner Sacheen Littlefeather, businesswoman Franca Fendi.

Matthew Bannister on

Dame Angela Lansbury (pictured), the stage and screen actor best known in recent years for her role in the TV series Murder She Wrote.

Lady Keswick who was Director of the Conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies after being a special adviser to Kenneth Clarke at Education and the Treasury. He pays tribute.

Sacheen Littlefeather, who staged a high profile protest about the representation of Native Americans in Hollywood when she declined an Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando. 

Franca Fendi, one of five sisters who took an Italian leather and fur business from a small shop in Rome to a multi-million pound international fashion house.


Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: David Benedict
Interviewed guest: Matt Wolf
Interviewed guest: Kenneth Clarke
Interviewed guest: Tim Knox
Interviewed guest: N. Bird Runningwater
Interviewed guest: Dana Thomas

Archive clips used: Corymore Productions/ Universal Television, Murder She Wrote S05E10 10/02/1990; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Gaslight (1941) clip; Wallis Productions, Blue Hawaii (1961) clip; Audible Audio/ W.F. Howes Ltd, The Colour Of The Sky After Rain – by Tessa Keswick 22/10/2020; BBC Radio 4, PM 17/06/2003; ABC7/ KGO-TV, Escape To Alcatraz – Documentary 13/06/2021; Firelight Media/ Native American Public Telecommunications/ WGBH, Wounded Knee 16/01/2009; Oscars – YouTube Channel, 45th Annual Academy Awards® 27/03/1973; BBC Radio 4, Short Cuts 12/07/2016; KPIX Public Affairs Presentation, I Believe – Sacheen Littlefeather interview 1976; BBC News, Academy apologises to Sacheen Littlefeather 16/08/2022.

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