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Last Word: Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott

Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott

Matthew Bannister on a whistleblower, an actor, a social worker and a holocaust survivor.

Matthew Bannister on whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, actor Glenda Jackson, social worker Melanie Phillips and holocaust survivor Sir Ben Helfgott.

Matthew Bannister on

Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers, revealing the US government’s secret approach to the Vietnam War.

Glenda Jackson, the Oscar winning actor and Labour MP

Melanie Phillips, who helped to change embedded racial prejudice in the social work system

Sir Ben Helfgott, who survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and went on to become captain of Britain’s Olympic weightlifting team


Producer: Ed Prendeville 

Interviewee: Robert Ellsberg 
Interviewee: Maurice Helfgott  
Interviewee: Ratna Dutt & Jabeer Butt

Archive used:
SIX FIFTY-FIVE SPECIAL. BBC2 Tue 17 Aug 1982; This Cultural Life. Thu 15 Jun 2023; Clip from Marat Sade published on Youtube on 10 Jun 2010; Clip from Women in Love published on YouTube  7th July 2021; Glenda Jackson winning Best Actress for "Women in Love" published on Youtube 30 Mar 2011; Glenda talking about the news she had won ITN Archive 16 April 1971; Glenda Jackson Remembers... Elizabeth R;  Clip from Elizabeth. Broadcast Wed 24 Mar 1971; Glenda winning Hampstead and Highgate constituency. BBC 1 First Broadcast Fri 10 Apr 1992; Glenda talking about her maiden speech. BBC2. First Broadcast Tue 28 May 1996; Glenda Jackson: Housing benefit debate, House of Commons. Glenda Jackson MP speaks in the debate on housing benefit, 9/11/10; Clip from Elizabeth is missing. BBC1, Sun 08 Dec 2019; Conversations with History: Daniel Ellsberg From: University of California Television. Uploaded 08.02.08

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