Sir Nicholas Winton, Val Doonican, Nek Chand, James Salter, Lady Rozelle Raynes
Matthew Bannister on a humanitarian, a singer, an artist, a writer and an aristocrat.
Last Word · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Matthew Bannister on
Sir Nicholas Winton who saved 669 children from the advancing Nazis in Czechoslovakia.
Also the Irish singer Val Doonican - known for his cardigans and rocking chair - he was sometimes called Britain's Bing Crosby.
The Indian artist Nek Chand who created the extraordinary Rock Garden of Chandigarh. Jarvis Cocker pays tribute.
The novelist and former fighter pilot James Salter
And Lady Rozelle Raynes, the daughter of an Earl who became a stoker on a tug boat during the war.