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Last Word: Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Ralph Hooper OBE, Raquel Welch, Dickie Davies

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Ralph Hooper OBE, Raquel Welch, Dickie Davies

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Ralph Hooper OBE, Raquel Welch, Dickie Davies

A feminist, an engineer, an actress and a sports presenter.

The feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes, the engineer Ralph Hooper OBE, the actor Raquel Welch, and the sports presenter Dickie Davies.

Kirsty Lang on
 
Dorothy Pitman Hughes who brought black women into the 70s Feminist movement and inspired Gloria Steinem.

Raquel Welch (pictured), the Hollywood actor who became a Sixties sex symbol after playing a cavewoman in the film 'One Million Years BC'.

The aeronautical engineer Ralph Hooper OBE who designed the revolutionary Harrier jump jet.

And Dickie Davies, the sports presenter best known for anchoring ITV Saturday afternoons in the 70s and 80s.


Producer: Neil George 

Interviewed guest: Laura L Lovett
Interviewed guest: Professor John Fielding
Interviewed guest: Sir Colin Chandler
Interviewed guest: Jim Rosenthal

Archive clips used: ITV Sport, World of Sport 1985/1973/1981; CBS Mornings/ YouTube Channel, Life and Legacy of Activist and Feminist Leader Dorothy Pitman Hughes uploaded on 24/07/2021; Artemis Rising Foundation/ Saks Picture Company/ The Glorias, The Glorias – movie clip (2020); Associated British Pathé/ Hammer Films/ Seven Arts Productions, One Million Years BC – trailer (1966); BBC Radio 2, Gloria Hunniford Show 01/01/1989; BBC One, Parkinson 11/11/1972; Twentieth Century Fox, Myra Breckinridge – movie clip (1970); HIT Entertainment/ Henson Associates (HA)/ Incorporated Television Company (ITC), The Muppet Show S03E11 17/11/1978; Film at Lincoln Center/ YouTube Channel, Q&A with Raquel Welch uploaded on 23/02/2012; BBC Two, Designing the ‘60s 15/03/2003; British Pathé, Harrier Plane (1968); BBC One, Red Arrows Flyover Centenary of RAF 10/07/2018; Thames Television, The Benny Hill Show 18/02/1976; ITV Studios, The Best of ITV Wrestling (DVD) 2006.

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