Pictured: Jacques ChiracJulian Worricker on:Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris for eighteen years, who served twice as French Prime Minister and twice as French president....The man who took on the toughest of managerial assignments - running British Leyland in the late 1970s - Sir Michael Edwardes....US television journalist and presenter, Cokie Roberts, credited with changing the role of women in the newsroom....Pat Cavendish O'Neill, the racehorse trainer and breeder, who built up a menagerie of rescue animals in Kenya and South Africa.Interviewed guest: Agnes Poirier
Interviewed guest: Nick Jones
Interviewed guest: Michael Goldfarb
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Last Word

Jacques Chirac, Sir Michael Edwardes, Cokie Roberts, Pat Cavendish O’Neill

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