Derek Mack (pictured), June Brown, Doris Derby, Dave Sales
Matthew Bannister on rocket engineer Derek Mack, actor June Brown, civil rights campaigner Doris Derby and fisherman Dave Sales.
Matthew Bannister on
Derek Mack, the rocket engineer who helped Britain enter the space age
June Brown, the actor best known as Dot Cotton in Eastenders
Dr Doris A. Derby, the American civil rights activist and photographer who took historic pictures of the struggle for equality
Dave Sales, the Dorset fisherman who fought a 23 year campaign to protect the sea bed in Lyme Bay.
Producer: Neil George
Interviewed guest: Dion Mack
Interviewed guest: Ken MacTaggart
Interviewed guest: Bob Banks
Interviewed guest: Hannah Collins
Interviewed guest: Gill Sales
Archive clips used: British PathΓ©, The Black Knight Rocket 1958; Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One, The One Show - The Rocket Men 25/01/2019; Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV Archive, Black Arrow Project - 24 Hours 27/10/1971; Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One, Eastenders, 1985-2020; Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, Desert Island Discs - June Brown 17/02/2017; British Movietone, V E Day in London 1945; Granada TV, Coronation Street, 19/08/1970; Library of Congress, Southern Oral History Program in North Carolina - Doris Derby Interview 2011; Storylines, Guardians of the Reef Project - Interview with David Sales 27/07/2017.
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Derek Mack
Last Word spoke to his son Dion Mack and to space historian and writer Ken MacTaggart.
June Brown
In her own words.
Doris Adelaide Derby
Last Word spoke to her husband Bob Banks and to contemporary artist and film-maker Hannah Collins.Β
David Sales BEM
Last Word spoke to his wife Gill Sales.Β
Broadcasts
- Fri 8 Apr 2022 16:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 10 Apr 2022 20:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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Last Word
Radio 4's weekly obituary programme
