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On Last Word this week: The campaigner for gay rights Antony Grey. He was a leading figure in the lobbying that produced the legalisation of homosexuality for adults over the age of twenty one in 1967. Also: Jean-Louis Dumas who turned the French luxury brand Hermes into a multi billion dollar global company. The actress Lynn Redgrave who had a gift for comedy and battled her personal demons in public. Guenter Wendt who was in charge of the final pre-flight checks before pioneering American astronauts launched into space. And Avigdor Arikha, the Israeli artist whose first drawings depicted the horrors of the concentration camp where he was taken as a child.
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