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Last Word: Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Ann Savours, Sue Baker, Wilko Johnson

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Ann Savours, Sue Baker, Wilko Johnson

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Ann Savours, Sue Baker, Wilko Johnson

Matthew Bannister on a migrant, a journalist, an archivist and a musician.

Matthew Bannister on migrant Mehran Karimi Nasseri, journalist Sue Baker, archivist Ann Savours and musician Wilko Johnson.

Matthew Bannister on

Mehran Karimi Nasseri – otherwise known as Sir Alfred (pictured). He was the Iranian migrant who lived for eighteen years in terminal one of the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.

Sue Baker, the motoring journalist who presented Top Gear.

Ann Savours, the archivist and polar historian who wrote books on the search for the Northwest Passage and Captain Scott’s ship the Discovery.

Wilko Johnson, the former guitarist with Dr Feelgood who was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2013 and given ten months to live. He undertook a farewell tour, but then a nine hour operation changed the prognosis.

Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: John Shirley 
Interviewed guest: Robert Headland
Interviewed guest: Michael Palin
Interviewed guest: Paul Schroeder
Interviewed guest: Martin Gurdon 
Interviewed guest: Vicki Butler-Henderson
Interviewed guest: Andrew Donkin

Archive clips used: Clip from the trailer for Terminal Man, Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers YouTube Channel, Uploaded 13/12/2017; Clip from the trailer for Jonathan Dove's opera 'Flight', Minnesota Opera YouTube Channel, Uploaded on 24/01/2020; BBC Archive: BBC World News - 13/11/2022: An Iranian man who lived in a Paris airport for 18 years has died; BBC Archive, Top Gear 27/09/1983; BBC Sound Archive, Mastertapes 19/05/2018; BBC Archive, World News 07/08/2013

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