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Last Word: Audrey Adams,  Nicola Trahan, Edward Bond, Eric Carmen

Audrey Adams,  Nicola Trahan, Edward Bond, Eric Carmen

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Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a resistance fighter, a playwright and a musician.

Matthew Bannister on campaigner Audrey Adams, resistance fighter Nicola Trahan, playwright Edward Bond and musician Eric Carmen.

Matthew Bannister on

Audrey Adams who became a tireless campaigner for the rights of black people after her son was stabbed to death in a racist attack.

Nicola Trahan, who joined the French Resistance as a teenager and was later awarded the Croix de Guerre. 

Edward Bond, the controversial playwright who played a key role in the abolition of censorship in British theatre.

The singer and songwriter Eric Carmen whose biggest hit “All By Myself” was based on a Rachmaninov piano concerto.

Interviewee: Lord Simon Woolley 
Interviewee: Reverend Eleanor Rance
Interviewee: Simon Callow and Sean Holmes 
Interviewee: Debbie Wiseman 

Producer: Ed Prendeville

Archive used:
French Wartime Service: Musical Items, Sound Archive, BBC; D-Day Announcement - Communique No. 1, Sound Archive, BBC; The Reverend Al Sharpton, Kilroy BBC 1, BBC; Audrey Adams interviewed by C4 news in 2021, C4 News, YouTube upload, 19/03/2021; Edward Bond interview - TX Date: 12.10.2011; Eric Carmen - Never Gonna fall in love again; Eric Carmen - All by myself; The Raspberries – Go all the way

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