Last Word

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Last Word: Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney, Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Latour, Florence Fisher, Dr Nicholas Arnold

Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney, Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Latour, Florence Fisher, Dr Nicholas Arnold

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney, Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Latour, Florence Fisher, Dr Nicholas Arnold

Kirsty Lang on a businessman, an agent, a campaigner, a herpetologist

Kirsty Lang on businessman and philanthropist Chuck Feeney, World War Two agent Phyllis Latour, campaigner Florence Fisher,  herpetologist Dr Nicholas Arnold.

Kirsty Lang on

Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney, the secret billionaire who gave most of his money away to good causes. 
 
Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Latour, the fearless secret agent who was parachuted into Nazi occupied Normandy a month before D-Day.   
 
Florence Fisher, who was adopted as a child and later led a movement to help millions of others find their birth parents. 
 
Dr Nicholas Arnold, one of the world’s leading experts on reptiles. 

Interviewee: Conor O'Clery
Interviewee: Clare Mulley 
Interviewee: Lorraine Dusky 
Interviewee: Andie Markoe-Byrne
Interviewee: Chris Arnold
Interviewee: Dr Colin McCarthy 

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Archive used:

Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story, RTE Factual,  YouTube, Atlantic Phil, Uploaded 05/06/2010; Chuck Feeney, Founding Chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies, on Empathy, YouTube, Atlantic Phil, Uploaded 13/04/2011;  Discovery with Jill Neville, BBC World Service, 01/06/1988;  Adoption – The Right To Know, interview with Florence Fisher, Harvard University, 01/06/1990;  Adoption records unsealed, News 8, News report, Wish-TV Indiana, YouTube uploaded 05/07/2018;

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