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Last Word: Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, Valerie Winn, Kate Saunders

Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, Valerie Winn, Kate Saunders

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, Valerie Winn, Kate Saunders

Matthew Bannister on a singer and actor, a broadcaster, a runner and an author.

Matthew Bannister on singer and actor Harry Belafonte, broadcaster Jerry Springer, runner Valerie Winn and author Kate Saunders.

Matthew Bannister on 

Harry Belafonte, the singer and actor who was also a leading civil rights campaigner.

Jerry Springer, whose TV talk show was once voted the worst in history – but was watched by millions around the world.

Valerie Winn, the runner who became the face of a campaign to allow women to compete in top level middle distance races.

Kate Saunders, the novelist, journalist and critic who won the Costa Prize for Children’s Literature for her book Five Children on the Western Front.

Interviewee: Michael Shnayerson 
Interviewee: Amanda Craig
Interviewee: Wendy Sly 
Interviewee: Jene Galvin

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Archive used:

Harry Belafonte, Desert Island Discs, BBC Home Service, 06/10/1958;  "Sing Your Song": Remembering Harry Belafonte, Who Used His Fame to Help Civil Rights Movement, Democracy Now, YouTube uploaded 26/04/2023;  Harry Belafonte interview, Film Night, BBC Archive originally broadcast 15/04/1972;  Civil Rights, British Pathe, uploaded YouTube 25/11/2016; Harry Belafonte interview, PBS Newshour, PBC, YouTube uploaded 15/11/2011;  Kate Saunders introduction on Have I Got News For You, BBC ONE, 28/09/1990;  Jerry Springer , Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 06/11/2009; Jerry Springer resigns from Cincinnati city council in 1974, WCPO, YouTube uploaded 28/04/2016; Jerry’s Final Thought Brings Him To Tears, Jerry Springer Show, YouTube uploaded 21/09/2015;  When Paxman met Springer, BBC Newsnight, 26/02/2014;

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