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Last Word: Jacqueline Gold CBE, Lance Reddick, Traute Lafrenz, Lynn Seymour

Jacqueline Gold CBE, Lance Reddick, Traute Lafrenz, Lynn Seymour

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Jacqueline Gold CBE, Lance Reddick, Traute Lafrenz, Lynn Seymour

Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, an actor, a campaigner, a ballerina

Matthew Bannister on businesswoman Jacqueline Gold CBE, actor Lance Reddick, campaigner Traute Lafrenz, ballerina Lynn Seymour

Matthew Bannister on 

Jacqueline Gold CBE – the businesswoman who turned Ann Summers from a couple of seedy sex shops into a multi-million pound high street success.

Lance Reddick, the American actor best known for playing Cedric Daniels in The Wire.

Traute Lafrenz, the last known survivor of the White Rose Group that actively resisted the Nazis in Germany during the second world war.

Lynn Seymour, one of the greatest dramatic ballerinas of the twentieth century.


Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies 

Interviewed guest: Kevin O’Hare
Interviewed guest: Charlotte Hardie 
Interviewed guest: Dr. Renee Meyer 
Interviewed guest: Helen O’Hara

Archive clips used:
Desert Island Discs, Jacqueline Gold,  BBC Radio 4, 02/11/2018; Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, 18/04/2017;  Off Camera Show, Sam Jones interviews Lance Reddick, YouTube, uploaded 04/11/2019;  In Town Today, Michael Smee interviews Lynn Seymour, BBC Television 27/02/1975;   The Wire _Season 1, HBO Films, uploaded to YouTube 25/02/2011;

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