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Stuart King, Comrade Duch, Deirdre Le Faye, David Bryant CBE

Julian Worricker on charity co-founder Stuart King, Khmer Rouge executioner Comrade Duch, Jane Austen scholar Deirdre Le Faye, bowls champion David Bryant.

Pictured: Stuart King

Julian Worricker on:

Stuart King, who co-founded a humanitarian charity which involved perilous flights to southern Africa in light aircraft straight after the war....

The Khmer Rouge executioner, known as Comrade Duch, found guilty of some of the worst atrocities carried out by that regime in Cambodia....

Deirdre Le Faye, a scholar and professor, whose knowledge of the life and works of Jane Austen has been described as 'unparalleled'.....

And the man with the pipe whose success on the bowling greens raised the profile of his sport, David Bryant.

Interviewed guest: Max Grove
Interviewed guest: Jonathan Head
Interviewed guest: Nic Dunlop
Interviewed guest: Dr Gillian Dow
Interviewed guest: David Rhys Jones

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: 70 Years of MAF, MAF 2020; Remembering D-Day, MAF 2020; Today, Radio 4 30/03/2009; Comrade Duch Dies, Bloomberg Quick Take News 02/09/2020; Duch Statements Apology, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia 15/08/2012; Jane Austen鈥檚 iPod, Radio 4 06/06/2010; 11th Commonwealth Games 1978, 大象传媒 Sound Archive, 10/08/1978; David Bryant Interviewed by Brian Roberts, Today, Radio 4 01/11/1966; Bowling Tips From David Bryant, Bowls UK 18/09/2016.

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28 minutes

Stuart King

Born 13 March 1922; died 29 August 2020, aged 98.

Last Word spoke to his friend Max Grove, former MAF pilot and CEO.

Comrade Duch

Born 17 November 1942; died 2 September 2020, aged 77.

Last Word spoke to Jonathan Head, South East Asia Correspondent for 大象传媒 News, and writer and photographer Nic Dunlop.

Deirdre Le Faye

Born 26 October 1933; died 16 August 2020, aged 86.

Last Word spoke to Dr Gillian Dow, Associate Professor in English at the University of Southampton.

David Bryant CBE

Born 27 October 1931; died 27 August 2020, aged 88.

Last Word spoke to his friend and former bowls partner David Rhys Jones.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 11 Sep 2020 16:00
  • Sun 13 Sep 2020 20:30

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