Dame Hilary Mantel, John McVicar, Joyce Reynolds, Paul Sartin
Matthew Bannister on author Dame Hilary Mantel, ex-offender John McVicar, classicist Joyce Reynolds and musician Paul Sartin.
Matthew Bannister on
Dame Hilary Mantel (pictured), the Booker prize winning novelist best known for the Wolf Hall trilogy.
John McVicar, the former armed robber who studied sociology in prison and became a writer and broadcaster.
Joyce Reynolds, the eminent Cambridge classicist who specialised in the study of epigraphs and taught Dame Mary Beard who joins us to remember her.
The multi-instrumentalist and singer Paul Sartin, a key figure on the English folk scene and member of the band Bellowhead. His band mate Sam Sweeney pays tribute.
Producer: Neil George
Interviewed guest: Laurie Taylor
Interviewed guest: Dame Mary Beard
Interviewed guest: Sam Sweeney
Interviewed guest: Jon Wilks
Archive clips used: Company Pictures/ Playground Entertainment/ Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Wolf Hall – E01 Three Card Trick 21/01/2015; Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News, interview with Hilary Mantel 03/05/2020; Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, Front Row – extended interview with Hilary Mantel 05/06/2012; Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, The Reith Lectures – Hilary Mantel 13/06/2017; Polytel/ The Who Films, McVicar (1980) UK TV Trailer; Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One, Straight Talk – John McVicar interview 09/05/1980; Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, Six Men – John McVicar interview 20/04/1986; Loftsingers Andover, Andover Museum Loft Singers Promo 13/10/2018.
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Dame Hilary Mantel
In her own words.
John McVicar
Last Word spoke to broadcaster, author and professor of sociology Laurie Taylor.
Joyce Reynolds
Last Word spoke to historian Dame Mary Beard.
Paul Sartin
Last Word spoke to folk musicians Jon Wilks and Sam Sweeney.
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