Albert Uderzo, Valerie Pettit OBE, Reverend Joseph Lowery, Julie Felix
Matthew Bannister on intelligence officer Valerie Pettit, cartoonist Albert Uderzo, civil rights leader the Reverend Joseph Lowery, singer Julie Felix.
Pictured: Albert Uderzo
Matthew Bannister on
Valerie Pettit OBE, the senior MI6 officer in charge of the daring operation to get Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky out of Russia after his cover was blown.
Albert Uderzo 鈥� the French cartoonist who created Asterix the Gaul.
Reverend Joseph Lowery 鈥� the leading American civil rights activist who worked alongside Martin Luther King in the campaign for black equality.
Julie Felix 鈥� the American-born singer who became known as the first lady of British folk.
Interviewed guest: Ben Macintyre
Interviewed guest: Agnes Poirier
Interviewed guest: Dr Paul Smith
Interviewed guest: Henrietta Giles
Interviewed guest: Fran Collier
Producer: Neil George
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Valerie Pettit OBE
Born 13 June 1929; died 28 December 2019, aged 90.
Last Word spoke to writer Ben Macintyre.
Albert Uderzo
Born 25 April 1927; died 24 March 2020, aged 92.
Last Word spoke to political commentator Agnes Poirier, and Dr Paul Smith, Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham.听
Reverend Joseph Lowery
Born 6 October 1921; died 27 March 2020, aged 98.
Last Word spoke to his friend and co-writer Henrietta Giles.
Julie Felix
Born 14 June 1938; died 22 March 2020, aged 81.
Last Word spoke to her manager and friend Fran Collier.
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Last Word
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