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Last Word: Peter de Savary, Bob Le Sueur MBE, Ela Bhatt, Hannah Pick-Goslar

Peter de Savary, Bob Le Sueur, Ela Bhatt, Hannah Pick-Goslar

Peter de Savary, Bob Le Sueur MBE, Ela Bhatt, Hannah Pick-Goslar

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Peter de Savary, Bob Le Sueur MBE, Ela Bhatt, Hannah Pick-Goslar

Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a war hero, a campaigner and a Holocaust survivor.

Matthew Bannister on entrepreneur Peter de Savary, occupation hero Bob Le Sueur MBE, campaigner Ela Bhatt and Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar.

Matthew Bannister on

Peter de Savary, the serial entrepreneur who ran private members’ clubs, once owned both Land’s End and John O’Groats and spent a fortune trying to win the America’s Cup for the UK.

Bob Le Sueur MBE, who risked his life during the German occupation of Jersey by helping Russian slave workers to escape.

Ela Bhatt (pictured), the Indian trade unionist who campaigned for the rights of street vendors and other self-employed women. 

Hannah Pick-Goslar, the German-born Israeli nurse and Holocaust survivor who was a close friend of Anne Frank. 


Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Savannah de Savary
Interviewed guest: Chris Stone
Interviewed guest: Renana Jhabvala

Archive clips used: OxfordUnion YouTube Channel, Peter de Savary – Business Advice 22/03/2013; BBC World News, Madonna and Guy Ritchie marry 22/12/2000; BBC Sound Archive, Peter de Savary – America’s Cup 02/07/1983; BBC Sound Archive, The America’s Cup 27/09/1983; BBC Radio 5Live, Backtrackers – Jersey Under Occupation 02/05/1991; BBC Radio 4, Open Country 24/11/2011; British Pathé/ Gaumont British Newsreel, Liberation of the Channel Islands (1945); BBC Two, Gandhi – The Rise To Fame 10/10/2009; BBC Two, India – Ruins of the Raj 11/12/1990; Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remeberance Center, ‘That’s What I Hope’ – The Story of Hannah Pick 13/01/2020; BBC Two  Holocaust Memorial Day 27/01/2005.

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