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Matthew Bannister on Nusrat Bhutto, Sir Jimmy Savile, George Daniels, Axel Axgil and Norrie Woodhall

Fri, 4 Nov 11

Radio 4's obituary programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have recently died. This week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of Begum Nusrat Bhutto, matriarch of Pakistan's political dynasty. Sir Jimmy Savile, broadcaster, philanthropist and eccentric. We hear from his TV and radio producers. George Daniels, one of the world's greatest watchmakers whose creations can sell for up to one million pounds. Axel Axgil, the Danish gay rights campaigner who took part in the world's first same sex civil partnership. And Norrie Woodhall. At the age of 105, she was the last surviving person to have known Thomas Hardy.

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