Adnan Khashoggi, Countess Mountbatten, Adam West, Kailash Puri, Vin Garbutt, Helen Dunmore
Matthew Bannister on an arms dealer, a countess, an actor, an agony aunt, a singer.
Last Word · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Matthew Bannister on
Arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, known for his lavish life style, he acted as a middle man between governments and arms suppliers.
Countess Mountbatten, godmother to Prince Charles, she was badly wounded in the IRA bomb attack which killed her father, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and her son Nicholas.
Adam West, the actor best known for playing Batman on TV.
Kailash Puri, the Indian born writer who became an agony aunt to thousands of Punjabi readers.
And Vin Garbutt, the folk singer known as "The Teesside Troubadour."
Producer: Neil George.