David Toole OBE, Professor Valerie Curtis, Frank Bough, Jill Paton Walsh CBE
Matthew Bannister on dancer David Toole, hygiene expert Professor Val Curtis, TV presenter Frank Bough, author Jill Paton Walsh
Pictured: David Toole
Matthew Bannister on
David Toole, the disabled dancer who starred in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics.
Professor Val Curtis, who was known as the Queen of Hygiene for her expertise on sanitation and research in how to communicate public health messages.
Frank Bough, the popular presenter of TV shows like 'Grandstand' and 'Nationwide' whose 成人快手 career ended in disgrace after he was caught taking drugs with prostitutes.
Jill Paton Walsh, the award winning children鈥檚 author who also wrote the first self-published novel to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize and completed an unfinished work by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Interviewed guest: Jenny Sealey
Interviewed guest: Oliver Cumming
Interviewed guest: John Stapleton
Interviewed guest: Sally Magnussen
Interviewed guest: Julia Eccleshare
Interviewed guest: Oliver Soden
Reader: Emma Handy
Producer: Neil George
Archive clips from: Midweek, Radio 4 01/03/2017; The Cost of Living, directed by Lloyd Newson, DV8 Physical Theatre 2005; In Business, Radio 4 29/07/2010; Science Stories, Radio 4 28/08/2019; Off The Page, Radio 4 Extra 13/07/2016; Grandstand, 成人快手 One 1960; Woman鈥檚 Hour, Radio 4 09/07/1975; Nationwide, 成人快手 One 05/08/1983; Desert Island Discs, Radio 4 26/04/1987; PM, Radio 4 26/10/2020; 成人快手 Breakfast Time, 成人快手 One 17/01/1983; The John Dunn Show, Radio 2 17/10/1984; News 92, Radio 1 01/09/1992; Treasure Islands: Jill Paton-Walsh, Radio 4 20/11/1991; The Dolphin Crossing by Jill Paton Walsh, Faber & Faber 15/11/2012, read by Emma Handy; Private Passions, Radio 3 07/12/2014; Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh, Black Swan 01/01/1995, read by Natasha Pyne, Radio 4 10/10/1994.
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David Toole OBE
Born 31 July 1964; died 16 October 2020, aged 56.
Last Word spoke to Jenny Sealey, Artistic Director of Graeae.
Professor Valerie Curtis
Born 20 September 1958; died 19 October 2020, aged 62.
Last Word spoke to her friend and colleague Oliver Cumming,聽Director of the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Frank Bough
Born 15 January 1933; died 21 October 2020, aged 87.
Last Word spoke to broadcasters John Stapleton and Sally Magnussen.
Jill Paton Walsh CBE
Born 29 April 1937; died 18 October 2020, aged 83.
Last Word spoke to journalist and children鈥檚 book critic Julia Eccleshare, and Oliver Soden, Jill鈥檚 literary executor, fellow author and friend.
Broadcasts
- Fri 30 Oct 2020 16:00成人快手 Radio 4
- Sun 1 Nov 2020 20:30成人快手 Radio 4
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Last Word
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