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Last Word: Victor Lewis-Smith, Maureen Doherty, Pablo Milanés, Ailsa Irving

23/12/2022

Victor Lewis-Smith, Maureen Doherty, Pablo Milanés, Ailsa Irving

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Victor Lewis-Smith, Maureen Doherty, Pablo Milanés, Ailsa Irving

Matthew Bannister on a columnist and broadcaster, a designer, a singer, and a campaigner.

Matthew Bannister on columnist and broadcaster Victor Lewis-Smith, designer Maureen Doherty, singer Pablo Milanés and campaigner Ailsa Irving.

Matthew Bannister on

The columnist, broadcaster, producer, musician and outrageous hoaxer Victor Lewis-Smith (pictured).

Maureen Doherty, the designer who worked with Issey Miyake and founded the influential fashion brand Egg. Edmund de Waal pays tribute.

Pablo Milanés, the Cuban musician who was one of the founders of the nueva trova singer/songwriter movement.

Ailsa Irving, who started and ran the UK Endometriosis Society after a long battle to get her own symptoms diagnosed. 


Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Graham Pass
Interviewed guest: Edmund de Waal
Interviewed guest: Robin Denselow
Interviewed guest: Rob Irving
Interviewed guest: Emma Cox

Archive clips used: BBC Two, Inside Victor Lewis-Smith 06/12/1993; YouTube, Opera Spoof by Victor Lewis-Smith; BBC Radio 4, You and Yours - the revival of Brylcreem 02/12/1985; BBC Radio 4, Midweek 21/05/1986; BBC Radio 4 Extra, Victor Lewis-Smith s1e08, 05/10/2017; Associated Rediffusion Productions Ltd/ Victor Lewis-Smith, Mary Whitehouse Sketch; YouTube, Victor Lewis-Smith - BBC Reception General Pinochet Prank Call; BBC Radio 4, Loose Ends - Victor Lewis-Smith 01/01/1987; BBC Radio 1, Victor Lewis-Smith Christmas Message, 26/12/1989; YouTube/ CriticalPast channel, Fidel Castro and his army fight against Batista's forces 12/06/2014; Juan Pil Vila, Pablo Milanés documentary (2017).

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