Robert Stigwood, Patricia Torrens, Pierre Boulez, Lord Ezra, Natalie Cole
Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.
Last Word · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Matthew Bannister on
Robert Stigwood, the impresario who managed Eric Clapton and The Bee Gees, produced Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita and the movies Saturday Night Fever and Grease.
Patricia Torrens the first adviser on diet to the Department of Health.
Pierre Boulez, the avant garde French composer and conductor who pioneered serialism and the use of electronics.
Lord Ezra who was chairman of the National Coal Board in the 1970s.
And Natalie Cole, the acclaimed singer who battled drug addiction and sang a posthumous duet with her father Nat King Cole.