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Radio 4,11 Jun 2010,30 mins

11/06/2010

Last Word

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On Last Word this week: The forensic scientist Robin Keeley. He worked on the shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy, the killing of Georgi Markov with a poisoned umbrella and had his evidence challenged in the Jill Dando murder case. Also John Hedgecoe, the UK's first professor of photography who took the picture of the Queen which is still used on our stamps. Keith Jessop, the diver who salvaged millions of pounds worth of gold ingots from the wreck of HMS Edinburgh. Kazue Ohno, internationally acclaimed founder of the Japanese Butoh dance movement And Joan Rhodes, known as the Strong Lady of Variety, she bent iron bars, tore phone books in half and played Scrabble with Quentin Crisp.

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