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19/11/2010

Matthew Bannister on the film producer Dino de Laurentiis, the nutritionist Professor John Waterlow, the composer Henryk Gorecki and the natural history producer Simon Roberts.

On Last Word this week:

The prolific film producer Dino De Laurentiis. We have tributes from the actor Brian Blessed and the directors Michael Winner and David Lynch;

Professor John Waterlow who saved millions of lives through his work on malnutrition;

The Polish composer Henryk Gorecki who was surprised when his third symphony became an international favourite;

The former Nazi concentration camp guard Michael Seifert, tracked down in Canada and sentenced to life imprisonment in his eighties;

and the Â鶹ÊÓƵAV producer Simon Roberts who made some of Radio 4's best loved natural history programmes.

Producer: Neil George.

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