Sep 07 2016 29 mins 87
Actress and writer Maureen Lipman chooses the end-of-life care campaigner, Dame Cicely Saunders.
Dame Cicely Saunders was known as ‘the woman who changed the face of death’. At almost 6 foot tall, she could be intimidating, tiresome and relentless as she devoted her life to ensuring that terminally ill people could die with dignity and without pain.
Championing the life of Cicely Saunders as her great life is the actress and writer Maureen Lipman.
The expert witness is, Professor David Clark, from the University of Glasgow.
Presenter: Matthew Parris
Producer: Perminder Khatkar.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016.
