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Hamish MacInnes OBE, Jos茅 Padilla, Anne Rasa

Matthew Bannister on mountaineer Hamish MacInnes, ethologist Professor Anne Rasa, DJ Jose Padilla

Matthew Bannister on:

Hamish MacInnes, the mountaineer known as 鈥淭he Fox of Glencoe鈥. He climbed the Matterhorn aged 16, made four trips to Everest and was a stalwart of the Glencoe Mountain Rescue team. He was also an inventor, coming up with an all metal ice axe and a collapsible stretcher for use in rescue operations. His services were much in demand as an advisor to big budget films like The Eiger Sanction, the Mission and even Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Professor Anne Rasa, an expert in animal behaviour who studied the matriarchal society of the dwarf mongoose and then set up a sanctuary for meerkats in the Kalahari region.

The Spanish DJ Jose Padilla who pioneered chill out music by providing a soundtrack to the sunset on Ibiza.

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes, 大象传媒 4, 01/11/2020; Singular Scots, Radio 4, 12/09/1991; A Time to Talk, Radio Scotland, 10/01/1974; The Eiger Sanction, The Malpaso Company/ Universal Pictures; Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Python (Monty) Pictures / EMI Films; Natural Selection: Mongoose, 大象传媒 Bristol, 25/10/1985; J贸se Padilla 鈥 An Ibiza Original, A Fact Magazine Documentary; Moments in Love: A History of Chillout Music, Radio 2, 01.05.2004

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28 minutes

Hamish MacInnes OBE

Born 7 July 1930; died 22 November 2020, aged 90

Last Word spoke to mountaineer David 'Heavy' Whalley and film director Robbie Fraser

Anne Rasa

Born 28 April 1940; died 15 November 2020, aged 80

Last Word spoke to Michael Edwards and son Richard Rasa-Phillips

Jos茅 Padilla

Born 4 December 1955; died 18 October 2020, aged 64.

Last Word spoke to musician Sally Rodgers.


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  • Fri 4 Dec 2020 16:00
  • Sun 6 Dec 2020 20:30

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