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Last Word: Frene Ginwala, Lady Martha Bruce OBE, Pervez Musharraf, Paco Rabanne

Frene Ginwala, Lady Martha Bruce OBE, Pervez Musharraf, Paco Rabanne

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Frene Ginwala, Lady Martha Bruce OBE, Pervez Musharraf, Paco Rabanne

Matthew Bannister on an activist, a prison governor, a president and a designer.

Matthew Bannister on activist Frene Ginwala, prison governor Lady Martha Bruce, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf and designer Paco Rabanne.

Matthew Bannister on

Frene Ginwala (pictured), one of the leading figures in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, who became Speaker of the country’s first democratically elected parliament.

Lady Martha Bruce OBE, governor of Scotland’s first purpose built prison for women. 

General Pervez Musharraf, who took power as President of Pakistan in a military coup and supported George Bush’s War on Terror.

Paco Rabanne, the designer who created clothes from metal, plastics and wood.


Producer: Neil George 

Interviewed guest: John Battersby
Interviewed guest: Tessa Dunlop
Interviewed guest: Umer Farooq
Interviewed guest: Suzy Menkes OBE

Archive clips used: C-Span, South African State of the National Address, introduction 24/05/1994; The Freedom Collection, Frene Ginwala – We had more offices than the South African Government had Embassies 06/07/2015; British Pathé, Come On Girls Join The Ats 1944; British Movietone, ATS Training Centre 07/07/1941; BBC Radio 4, Now – In Scotland 30/06/1971; BBC One, Nationwide 09/12/1975; ABC Australia, Profile of a General 2000; BBC Two, Newsnight 13/10/1999; BBC World News, HARDtalk – Pervez Musharraf 10/01/2001; NDTV – News (YouTube Channel), Pervez Musharraf interview uploaded on 17/11/2011; BBC News, Assassination Attempt On Musharraf 25/12/2003; FRANCE24 (YouTube Channel), EN – Culture – Paco Rabanne interview uploaded on 04/07/2007; British Pathé, Cinetic Fashions aka Paco Rabanne Way-Out Fashions 1967; British Pathé, Metal Fashions 1969; Paco Rabanne, UK television advert 1986.

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