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Last Word: Sir Oliver Popplewell, Lynn Conway, Tony Bramwell, Francoise Hardy

Sir Oliver Popplewell, Lynn Conway, Tony Bramwell, Francoise Hardy

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Sir Oliver Popplewell, Lynn Conway, Tony Bramwell, Francoise Hardy

Kirsty Lang on a judge, a computer pioneer, a music producer and a singer.

Kirsty Lang on judge Sir Oliver Popplewell,  computer pioneer Lynn Conway, music mogul Tony Bramwell and 60s singing icon Francoise Hardy.

Kirsty Lang on the Judge and cricketer Sir Oliver Popplewell. His godson Stephen Fry pays tribute.

The computer pioneer and transgender advocate Lynn Conway.

The music mogul and friend to the Fab Four Tony Bramwell. 

One of France’s best loved singer song-writers Francoise Hardy.


Interviewee: Stephen Fry
Interviewee: Charles Rogers
Interviewee: Roag Best
Interviewee: Laura Barton

Producer: Catherine Powell

Archive used:
Get Carman: The Trials of George Carman QC BBC 2 5th April 2002; The Today Programme BBC 15th May 1985; Michigan Engineering, University of Michigan 8 Oct 2014 uploaded from Youtube; Trans Activism Oral History Project, Chair in Transgender Studies,  University of Victoria,  Canada Feb 4th 2020; Radio Newsreel BBC World Service 31st October 1963; Dermot O’Leary show BBC Radio 2 17th August 2013; Sunny South Kensington – Donovan  Epic 22nd October 1966; Songbird – Eva Cassidy Didgeridoo Records/ Hot Record 1998; My Generation – The Who Bruinswick Records/ Decca (US) 1965/6; Falling for Francoise, Producer: Alan Hall A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 2011.

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