Last Word
Last Word
BBC Radio 4
Sir David Tang, Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Walter Becker
28 minutes Posted Sep 8, 2017 at 3:59 pm.
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Matthew Bannister on:

The flamboyant businessman Sir David Tang who founded the fashion label Shanghai Tang and collected celebrity friends. Tracey Emin pays tribute.

Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick who became one of the world's leading authorities on thoracic medicine after suffering from tuberculosis as a child.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the genial head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

And Walter Becker - who teamed up with Donald Fagen to create the sophisticated music and lyrics of Steely Dan.