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Radio 4,28 Jan 2011,30 mins

28/01/2011

Last Word

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On Last Word this week: Sargent Shriver - who married into the Kennedy family and founded the Peace Corps. Reg Ward, who led the controversial regeneration of the London Docklands. Penny Tweedie, the photographer who took a principled decision not to cover an execution in Bangladesh - John Pilger pays tribute. The legendary Indian classical singer Bhimsen Joshi. And America's fitness king - Jack Lalanne, who personally towed seventy boats one and a half miles through the water on his seventieth birthday.

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