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Radio 4,24 Feb 2012,28 mins

24/02/2012

Last Word

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Matthew Bannister on the war correspondent Marie Colvin who was killed covering the bombardment of Homs in Syria. We hear about her dangerous career - and her love of sailing. the adventurer John Fairfax - he was the first man to row solo across the Atlantic and then rowed across the Pacific with Sylvia Cook. She tells me how they braved huge storms and a shark attack. the military historian MRD Foot, who drew on his own experiences in the SAS to become the official historian of the Special Operations Executive And the comedian Frank Carson, who unified Northern Ireland through laughter.

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