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Lillian Ross, Jalal Talabani, Terry Downes, Sybil Flory, Hedley Jones

Lillian Ross, Jalal Talabani, Terry Downes, Sybil Flory, Hedley Jones

Julian Worricker on a journalist, a politician, a boxer, a seamstress, a musician.

Last Word · BBC Radio 4

October 13, 201728m 4s

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Show Notes

Julian Worricker on:

Lillian Ross, who wrote for the New Yorker, and created a new form of journalism....

The Iraqi president after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Jalal Talabani - a prominent Kurdish politician....

The boxer Terry Downes, who held the world middleweight title in the 1960s....

Sybil Flory, a seamstress who evaded the Japanese in 1941, and found her sister six decades later....

Hedley Jones, a Jamaican musician who designed and built the country's first sound systems....and traffic lights....