Last Word

On Last Word this week: A legendary lifeboatman from the Isles of Scilly. Matt Lethbridge showed exceptional courage in more than one hundred and fifty rescues at sea. Sir Frank Kermode the leading scholar and literary critic. Dr Thomas Peebles, who isolated the measles virus, leading to the development of a vaccine. Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith - the TV presenter turned Tory backbencher. And Beryl Marriott, the folk music pianist who influenced Fairport Convention. We have a tribute from the band's former fiddler Dave Swarbrick.