19/11/2010
Matthew Bannister on the film producer Dino de Laurentiis, the nutritionist Professor John Waterlow, the composer Henryk Gorecki and the natural history producer Simon Roberts.
On Last Word this week:
The prolific film producer Dino De Laurentiis. We have tributes from the actor Brian Blessed and the directors Michael Winner and David Lynch;
Professor John Waterlow who saved millions of lives through his work on malnutrition;
The Polish composer Henryk Gorecki who was surprised when his third symphony became an international favourite;
The former Nazi concentration camp guard Michael Seifert, tracked down in Canada and sentenced to life imprisonment in his eighties;
and the 大象传媒 producer Simon Roberts who made some of Radio 4's best loved natural history programmes.
Producer: Neil George.
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- Fri 19 Nov 2010 16:00大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 21 Nov 2010 20:30大象传媒 Radio 4
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