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Last Word: John Pilger, KM Peyton, Paula Murphy, Michael Blakemore

John Pilger, KM Peyton, Paula Murphy, Michael Blakemore

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, John Pilger, KM Peyton, Paula Murphy, Michael Blakemore

Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an author, a racing driver and a director.

Matthew Bannister on journalist John Pilger, author KM Peyton, racing driver Paula Murphy and director Michael Blakemore.

Matthew Bannister on

John Pilger, the campaigning journalist who made award winning films about human rights abuses and was an outspoken critic of British and US foreign policy.

K.M. Peyton, the author of many “pony” books for children and adolescents, including the “Flambards” trilogy.

Paula Murphy, the American racing driver once described as “the fastest woman on wheels”.

Michael Blakemore, the versatile theatre director who was the only person to win Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Musical in the same year.

Interviewee: Sam Pilger
Interviewee: Anthony Hayward
Interviewee: Meg Rosoff
Interviewee: Hilary Peyton
Interviewee: Pam Miller
Interviewee: Conrad Blakemore
Interviewee: Greta Scacchi

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Archive used: 
John Pilger, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 18/02/1990; Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, (ATV) ITV, 1979 p/d David Munro;  Cambodia: Year One,  (ATV), ITV, 10 September 1980, p/d David Munro;  John Pilger interview with Kim Hill, TVNZ's 1News, 1 News, YouTube uploaded, 24/11/2023;  KM Peyton interview, Front Row, BBC Radio 4, 27/04/2009;  KM Peyton interview, Womans Hour, BBC Radio 4, 20/02/2016; Flambards TV Series, TV Theme and scene extract, ITV, 02/02/1979; Paula Murphy interview/clips, Paula Murphy: Undaunted, Documentary, Fox Sports, Director Pam Miller, released 2023, Michael Blakemore interview, Theatre Talk, YouTube uploaded 04/08/2013;  John Lahr talks with director Michael Blakemore, Conversations, The New Yorker, YouTube uploaded 23/07/2014;

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