Peter de Savary, Bob Le Sueur MBE, Ela Bhatt, Hannah Pick-Goslar
Matthew Bannister on entrepreneur Peter de Savary, occupation hero Bob Le Sueur MBE, campaigner Ela Bhatt and Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar.
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Peter de Savary, the serial entrepreneur who ran private members’ clubs, once owned both Land’s End and John O’Groats and spent a fortune trying to win the America’s Cup for the UK.
Bob Le Sueur MBE, who risked his life during the German occupation of Jersey by helping Russian slave workers to escape.
Ela Bhatt (pictured), the Indian trade unionist who campaigned for the rights of street vendors and other self-employed women.
Hannah Pick-Goslar, the German-born Israeli nurse and Holocaust survivor who was a close friend of Anne Frank.
Producer: Neil George
Interviewed guest: Savannah de Savary
Interviewed guest: Chris Stone
Interviewed guest: Renana Jhabvala
Archive clips used: OxfordUnion YouTube Channel, Peter de Savary – Business Advice 22/03/2013; Â鶹ԼÅÄ World News, Madonna and Guy Ritchie marry 22/12/2000; Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sound Archive, Peter de Savary – America’s Cup 02/07/1983; Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sound Archive, The America’s Cup 27/09/1983; Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 5Live, Backtrackers – Jersey Under Occupation 02/05/1991; Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4, Open Country 24/11/2011; British Pathé/ Gaumont British Newsreel, Liberation of the Channel Islands (1945); Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two, Gandhi – The Rise To Fame 10/10/2009; Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two, India – Ruins of the Raj 11/12/1990; Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remeberance Center, ‘That’s What I Hope’ – The Story of Hannah Pick 13/01/2020; Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Holocaust Memorial Day 27/01/2005.
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Peter de Savary
Last Word spoke to his daughter Savannah de Savary.
Robert Winter Le Sueur MBE
Last Word spoke to his friend and Â鶹ԼÅÄ journalist Chris Stone.
Ela Bhatt
Last Word spoke to Ela’s former student Renana Jhabvala, author and executive trustee of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust.
Hannah Pick-Goslar
In her own words.
Broadcasts
- Fri 18 Nov 2022 16:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Sun 20 Nov 2022 20:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
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Last Word
Radio 4's weekly obituary programme