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Last Word: Norma Barzman, Lord Saye and Sele, Jim Hobson, Susan Campbell

Norma Barzman, Lord Saye and Sele, Jim Hobson, Susan Campbell

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Norma Barzman, Lord Saye and Sele, Jim Hobson, Susan Campbell

Matthew Bannister on a screenwriter, an aristocrat, a police officer and an illustrator.

Matthew Bannister on screenwriter Norma Barzman, aristocrat Lord Saye and Sele, police officer Jim Hobson and illustrator Susan Campbell.

Matthew Bannister on

Norma Barzman, the screenwriter from the Golden Age of Hollywood who fled to Europe after facing being blacklisted from the House Un-American Activities Committee for her Communist views. 

Lord Saye and Sele, the aristocrat who served in the army during the Second World War, then worked to restore the historic family seat Broughton Castle.

James 'Jim' Hobson, the Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire who was in charge of the Yorkshire Ripper enquiry when Peter Sutcliffe was arrested.

Susan Campbell, the illustrator who co-founded the Walled Kitchen Garden Network.

Interviewee:  Larry Ceplair
Interviewee:  John Barzman
Interviewee: Martin Fiennes
Interviewee: Franco Pardini
Interviewee: Jim Buckland
Interviewee: Caroline Conran

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Archive used:

CSULB Human Rights Forum - Norma Barzman, the Advanced Media Production Center, California State University Long Beach, Beach TV CSULB, YouTube, uploaded 06/04/2009;  The Locket (1946), RKO Radio Pictures; Norma Barzman, Hollywood Exiles, Podcast, BBC World Service, 15/01/2024; The House Committee of Un-American Activities Actuality, Omnibus, Hollywood on Trial, BBC Two, 04/11/1973;  Give us This Day (1949) Dir, Edward Dmytryk; IMDB; Lord Saye and Seye interview, From D-Day to Bergen-Belsen: Lord Saye & Sele, Dir/Prod Nathan Portlock-Allan,  YouTube uploaded 26/01/2021; Lord Seye and Sele, SignPost, BBC, 25/04/1962; News Conference, Newsbeat, BBC Radio, 04/09/1979; The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story, BBC Four, 11/04/2019; Susan Campbell "Trained Fruit in Historic Kitchen Gardens", Garden Conservation YouTube uploaded 30/09/2022; Susan Campbell makes her first visit to Althorp, Episode 8, Walled Garden Historian, spencer1508.com;

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