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Last Word: Tina Turner, Martin Amis, Leroy Cooper, Rolf Harris, Marlene Bauer Hagge

Tina Turner, Martin Amis, Leroy Cooper, Rolf Harris, Marlene Bauer Hagge

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Tina Turner, Martin Amis, Leroy Cooper, Rolf Harris, Marlene Bauer Hagge

Matthew Bannister on a singer, an author, a photographer and a golfer.

Matthew Bannister on singer Tina Turner, author Martin Amis, photographer Leroy Cooper, golfer Marlene Bauer Hagge and Rolf Harris.

Matthew Bannister on
 
Tina Turner, the singer who overcame an abusive relationship to become an international superstar
 
Martin Amis, one of the literary giants of his generation
 
Leroy Cooper, the photographer who captured the social history of his area of Liverpool
 
Rolf Harris, the entertainer who was imprisoned for sexually assaulting young girls
 
Marlene Bauer Hagge, the last surviving founding member of the US Ladies Professional Golf Association

Interviewee: Dan Franklin
Interviewee: Leee John 
Interviewee: Ray Quarless
Interviewee: Levi Tafari
Interviewee: David Sillito
Interviewee: Lewine Mair

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Archive used:
Tina Turner - From the archives: Life of suffering and triumph, CBS Sunday Morning, originally broadcast October 2018, YouTube uploaded 25/05/2023;  Tina Turner talks to Larry King about her life in music (1997), CNN, YouTube uploaded 21/05/2016;  Will Gompertz interviews Tina Turner, Tina Turner: Simply the Best, BBC One, 26/11/2018; Anne Rohmer interviews Tina Turner (1985),  Canada TV News , CTV YouTube uploaded 24/05/2023; Martin Amis interview, The Late Show: Face To Face, BBC TWO, 25/10/1993; Martin Amis, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 29/12/1996;  Leroy Cooper interview with Flora Zajicek, Empathy Museum, 2022;  Toxteth riots July 1981, BBC News; Marlene Bauer  Hagge interview, LPGA Takeaway: 67 Years Later, the Founders Look Back, Golf.com  YouTube uploaded 4/11/2016;  1960 U.S. Women's Open newsreel, United States Golf Association, YouTube uploaded 30/05/2014; Marlene Bauer, The Last Of The LPGA Founders, The Golf Library, YouTube uploaded 19/05/2023;

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