Last Word - 13/08/2010

On Last Word this week: Professor Tony Judt the leading historian and political thinker who wrote eloquently about his struggle with motor neurone disease The Hollywood actress Patricia Neal who suffered a series of strokes and was nursed back to health by her husband Roald Dahl The Glasgow union leader Jimmy Reid who led a "work in" to save the Clyde shipyards from closure And the jazz and swing drummer Jack Parnell, a star of the Ted Heath Band and conductor of the music for the Muppets. Producer: Neil George.