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EPISODE · Jul 3, 2015 · 27 MIN

Sir Nicholas Winton, Val Doonican, Nek Chand, James Salter, Lady Rozelle Raynes

from Last Word · host BBC Radio 4

Matthew Bannister onSir 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 SalterAnd Lady Rozelle Raynes, the daughter of an Earl who became a stoker on a tug boat during the war.

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