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Last Word - 14/01/2011

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On Last Word this week: The multi-millionaire property developer David Hart who played an influential role in Tory politics in the 80s and 90s. We have a tribute from his friend Michael Portillo. Major Dick Winters, the American soldier whose courage during the D-Day landings was featured in the TV mini series Band of Brothers. The children's writer Dick King Smith, who created the sheep-pig Babe. The Czech dissident Jiri Dienstbier who went on to become the country's Foreign minister. And the film director Peter Yates who brought us Steve McQueen's hair-raising car chase in Bullitt.