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Last Word: Richard M Sherman, Professor Wendy James CBE , Morgan Spurlock, June Mendoza OBE

Richard M Sherman, Professor Wendy James CBE , Morgan Spurlock, June Mendoza OBE

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Richard M Sherman, Professor Wendy James CBE , Morgan Spurlock, June Mendoza OBE

Matthew Bannister on a songwriter, an artist, a film-maker and an anthropologist.

Matthew Bannister on songwriter Richard M Sherman, anthropologist Wendy James, artist June Mendoza and film-maker Morgan Spurlock.

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Richard M Sherman who teamed up with his brother Robert to write some of Disney’s best loved songs.

Professor Wendy James CBE, the anthropologist who studied the Uduk tribes of Sudan.

June Mendoza OBE, the portrait painter whose subjects included members of the Royal Family, Prime Ministers and celebrities.

Morgan Spurlock, the film maker best known for his Oscar nominated documentary about the fast food industry “Supersize Me”.

Interviewee: Brian Sibley
Interviewee: Dr Douglas Johnson
Interviewee: Anna Smith
Interviewee: Kim Mackrell

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Archive used:
Richard Sherman, Outlook, BBC Radio 4, 29 Aug 2016; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Trailer, Dir: Ken Hughes, MGM, 1968; Mary Poppins trailer, Director: Robert Stevenson, Disney, 1964; Julie Andrews, Feed The Birds, Composer Sherman; Richard Sherman, The Film Programme, BBC Radio 4, 30 May 2008; Richard Sherman, Front Row, BBC Radio 4, 26 Oct 2007; Richard Sherman, Soul Music, BBC Radio 4, 03 May 2016;  It's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, Walt Disney; Richard Sherman interview, Empire Magazine, YouTube, uploaded 12 Aug 2013;  Interview with Professor Wendy James, Apollo, University of Cambridge Repository, Dir: Alan Macfarlane, Edit: Sarah Harrison,  dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/223956, 15 May 2009;  Super Size Me, 2004, Writer/Director: Morgan Spurlock, Samuel Goldwyn Film, You Tube, uploaded 17 May 2024;  Super Size Me, Official Movie Trailer, Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2004; 
Super Size Me 2, Official Trailer, Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2019;  Morgan Spurlock interview, ABC News, YouTube uploaded, 19 Sept 2019;  June Mendoza, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 08 Sept 1979; June Mendoza, Midweek, BBC Radio 4, 25 May 1988;

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