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Last Word: Richard Barancik, Yvonne Littlewood MBE, Edward Sexton, Dr Christian Carritt

Richard Barancik, Yvonne Littlewood MBE, Edward Sexton, Dr Christian Carritt

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Richard Barancik, Yvonne Littlewood MBE, Edward Sexton, Dr Christian Carritt

Kirsty Lang on a soldier, a television producer, a tailor and a doctor.

Kirsty Lang Kirsty Lang on soldier and architect Richard Barancik, producer-director Yvonne Littlewood, tailor Edward Section and general-practitioner Dr Christian Carritt.

Kirsty Lang on: 

Richard Barancik, the last known surviving member of a World War II allied unit - The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section - known as the Monuments Men and Women.     

Yvonne Littlewood MBE, the first woman to become a television producer and director in the BBC Light Entertainment unit.

Edward Sexton, the Saville Row master tailor. 

And Dr Christian Carritt who set up her own GP practice in 1950s London. 

Interviewee: Robert Edsel
Interviewee: Cathy Graham
Interviewee:  Liz McLoughlin
Interviewee:  Dominic Sebag-Montefiore 
Interviewee:  William Cohen

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies


Archive used: 

Hitler's Stolen Art Collection (1945), British Pathe, War Archives, YouTube published 10/01/2012; EuroVision Song Contest 1962, BBC One, Introduction, 1963; Yvonne Littlewood interview, History of the BBC, 09/01/2015; Yvonne Littlewood interview, The History Project: Film, Television and Radio, historyproject.org.uk, 21/11/1991,; Yvonne Littlewood interview Tape 2, The History Project: Film, Television and Radio, historyproject.org.uk,  28/11/1991; The Val Doonican Show, BBC One, 09/06/1984; Edward Sexton – Master Tailor, Edward Sexton YouTube, uploaded 29/08/2014; Edward Sexton interview, The Rake Presents, The Rake, YouTube uploaded 04/03/2021;Edward Sexton interview, Midweek, BBC Radio 4, 26/11/2014; Edward Sexton – British Style Genius, BBC Four, repeated broadcast date 11/06/2008;

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