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Matthew Bannister on Nina Bawden, director Tony Scott, Eileen Beasley and Scott McKenzie

Fri, 24 Aug 12

Radio 4's obituary programme, marking the lives of significant figures who have died recently. This week Matthew Bannister discusses the lives of the writer Nina Bawden, author of Carrie's War, The Peppermint Pig and many other acclaimed books for children and adults. Michael Morpurgo pays tribute. The movie director Tony Scott, best known for action thrillers like Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Man on Fire. The campaigner Eileen Beasley who refused to pay her rates until the bill was printed in the Welsh language and the singer Scott McKenzie who urged us all to go to San Francisco with flowers in our hair.