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Last Word: Alexei Navalny, Dr Brooke Ellison, Gertrude Wright, Steve Brown

Alexei Navalny, Dr Brooke Ellison, Gertrude Wright, Steve Brown

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John Wilson on a politician, an academic, a translator and a composer.

John Wilson on politician Alexei Navalny, academic Dr Brooke Ellison, translator Gertrude Wright and composer Steve Brown.

John Wilson on

Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner and leading opponent of President Vladimir Putin, who has died in a Russian state prison. 

Dr Brooke Ellison, an American academic and disabilities rights advocate who drew on her own experience of living with quadriplegia.

Gertrude Wright, who survived the bombing of her German home city during World War Two and went on to become a translator for Field Marshall Montgomery.

And Steve Brown, the music composer who worked on comedy productions such as Alan Partridge, Spitting Image, Dead Ringers and many more productions.   Steve Coogan and Harry Hill pay tribute.

Interviewee: Nikolai Petrov
Interviewee: Jean Ellison
Interviewee: Professor Stephen Post 
Interviewee: James Holland
Interviewee: Steve Coogan
Interviewee: Harry Hill

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Archive used:
Alexei Navalny, Profile, BBC Radio 4, 27/10/2012; BBC News, 05/12/2011; Alexei Navalny, HardTalk, BBC News, 19/01/2017; Navalny, Cable Network News, Dogwool, BBC Storyville, Director: Daniel Roher; 2022; Brooke Ellison, Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, 21/09/2010; Brooke Ellison, Tedx Talks, YouTube uploaded 14/07/2015; Brooke Ellison interview, Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education, YouTube upload 28/09/2023; Brooke Ellison Harvard Commencement Speech, June 2000; Magdeburg Blitzed, Pathe Gazettes/Pathe, 1944;  Steve Brown, The Mitch Benn Music Show, BBC Radio 4 Extra, 12/04/2009 (original TX 2006);  Steve Brown/Glen Ponder, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, BBC Two, 05/08/2002;  Spend, Spend Spend promo, Barbara Dickson/Steve Brown/Justin Green, Chariot Records, Released 06/05/2016;  I Can't Sing! The X Factor Musical, YouTube 04/11/2013;  Steve Brown singing on Newsnight, BBC TWO, 20/03/1992

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