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Radio 4,26 Oct 2012,28 mins

George McGovern, Fiorenzo Magni, Paul Kurtz, Mike Morris, Roy Bates

Last Word

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On Last Word this week: Senator George McGovern, who lost to Richard Nixon in the 1972 Presidential election, is remembered by Gary Hart and Henry Kissinger. Italian cycling champion - and three times winner of the Giro d'Italia race - Fiorenzo Magni. Paul Kurtz, founder of the 'skeptic' and humanist movements. TVAM presenter Mike Morris is remembered by her fellow presenter Anne Diamond. And Major Roy Bates, the self-styled prince of a disused sea fort which he dubbed the free state of Sealand.

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