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Last Word: Anne Perry, Dame Mary Quant, Jean Argles, Ahmad Jamal

Anne Perry, Dame Mary Quant, Jean Argles, Ahmad Jamal

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Anne Perry, Dame Mary Quant, Jean Argles, Ahmad Jamal

Matthew Bannister on an author, a designer, a codebreaker and a musician.

Matthew Bannister on author Anne Perry, designer Dame Mary Quant, codebreaker Jean Argles and musician Ahmad Jamal.

Matthew Bannister on

Anne Perry, the best-selling crime novelist who committed a murder when she was a teenager.

Dame Mary Quant, the influential fashion designer at the heart of the swinging 60s. Pattie Boyd recalls the coat Mary designed for her wedding to George Harrison.

Jean Argles, who – with her sister - served as a codebreaker during the second world war.

Ahmad Jamal, the jazz pianist and composer whose restrained but intense style inspired Miles Davis. Joe Stilgoe pays tribute.


Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Interviewee: Joanne Drayton
Interviewee: Jenny Lister
Interviewee: Pattie Boyd
Interviewee: Tessa Dunlop
Interviewee: Joe Stilgoe

Archive used:
Carnaby Street, British Pathe News, 1969;  Mary Quant interview with ITN about the ideas that guided her innovative designs, ITN Archive, YouTube uploaded 13/04/2023; Mary Quant interview, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4 , 16/02/2012; Anne Perry: The Making of a Writer, Open Road Media, YouTube uploaded 21/03/2010; Ian Rankin interview with  Anne Perry, YouTube uploaded 18/08/2007;  Heavenly Creatures film promo, YouTube uploaded 22/07/2014; Jean Argles interview, Legasee, The Veterans Video Archive, recording date unknown, source: legasee.org.uk;

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