Harry Leslie Smith, Pete Shelley, Monica Sims, Professor Wendy Atkin OBE, Ivan March
Matthew Bannister on campaigner Harry Leslie Smith, singer Pete Shelley, Radio 4 Controller Monica Sims, epidemiologist Wendy Atkin, music critic Ivan March
Pictured: Pete Shelley
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Harry Leslie Smith who grew up in poverty in Yorkshire. He became an outspoken campaigner for the welfare state and a social media star in his nineties.
Pete Shelley, lead singer and songwriter of Buzzcocks.
Monica Sims, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ executive who ran children's TV, then became Controller of Radio 4.
Wendy Atkin, the epidemiologist who devised a breakthrough screening test for bowel cancer.
Ivan March, the music critic who set up a record lending library and co-wrote the Penguin Stereo Record Guide.
Interviewed guest: John Smith
Interviewed guest: Owen Jones
Interviewed guest: Gillian Reynolds
Interviewed guest: Edward Barnes
Interviewed guest: Dr Amanda Cross
Interviewed guest: Martin Cullingford
Reader: Tony Turner
Producer: Neil George
Archive clips from: Labour Party Conference, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Parliament 24/09/14; Harry Leslie Smith: Comment is Free, The Guardian 23/03/16; Afternoon Edition, 5 Live 07/10/14; 5 Live Breakfast, 07/12/18; The Seven Ages of Rock, 6 Music 05/04/18; The Buzzcocks Story, 6 Music 31/07/14; Interviews with Monica Sims from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Oral History Collection; ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News, 12/04/02; Today, Radio 4 28/04/10.
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Harry Leslie Smith
Born 25 February 1923; died 28 November 2018, aged 95.
Last Word spoke to his son John Smith, and Guardian columnist Owen Jones.
Pete Shelley
Monica Sims
Born 27 October 1925; died 20 November 2018, aged 93.
Last Word spoke to radio critic Gillian Reynolds, and Edward Barnes, former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ television executive.
Professor Wendy Atkin OBE
Born 5 April 1947; died 2 October 2018, aged 71.
Last Word spoke to her former colleague Dr Amanda Cross, Reader in Cancer Epidemiology at Imperial College London.
Ivan March
Born 5 April 1928; died 1 November 2018, aged 90.
Last Word spoke to Martin Cullingford, editor of Gramophone magazine.Â
Broadcasts
- Fri 7 Dec 2018 16:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Sun 9 Dec 2018 20:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Last Word
Radio 4's weekly obituary programme