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This week
Friday 10 February听2006
Matthew Bannister听tells the life stories of people who have recently died. This week: Freddie Laker, Betty Friedan, Romano Mussolini, Ron Greenwood and Coretta Scott-King听
Freddie Laker
The pioneer of low cost flights across the Atlantic who has died in the Bahamas aged 83.
Journalist David Learmount from Flight International Magazine discusses how Laker's plans fitted into the airline industry and Judith Chalmers remembers the first Skytrain flight in 1977.
Betty Friedan
The woman dubbed 'the mother of American feminism' has died on her 85th birthday
Fay Weldon re-reads the pioneering book The Feminine Mystique which was published in 1963 - and Daniel Horowitz author of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism discusses why he believes Betty Friedan hid her political roots when the book was published and the National Organisation for Women NOW was co-founded by Friedan.
Romano Mussolini
The last surviving child of the fascist leader Mussolini who has died aged 78
David Willey reports from Italy on how Romano coped with his family name and gained fame as a jazz musician. Interviewees include the tv compere and jazz clarinettist听 Renzo Arbore and businessman Nicola Bulgari.
Ron Greenwood
The West Ham and English Football manger who has died aged 84
Hammers fan MP Frank Dobson remembers attending matches when Greenwood was in charge and assesses his contribution to England's world cup victory in 1966.
Coretta Scott-King The wife of Dr Martin Luther King who has died aged 78
In a week which saw thousands of mourners filing past the coffin of civil rights activist Coretta Scott King - Last Word commissioned a poetic tribute from the American South from the writer Kwame Dawes.
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