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Radio 4's weekly obituaries programme |
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Friday听2nd听November 2007
(Rpt) Sunday听4th November听 |
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Brigadier General Paul Tibbets
Pilot who has died aged 92.
On August 6th 1945, Paul Tibbets, then a colonel in the American army air force, piloted the B29 bomber Enola Gay which dropped the world鈥檚 first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. He was the son of a prosperous businessman from Illinois. His father had been opposed to him taking up flying, but he had been encouraged by his mother. Tibbets later named his bomber Enola Gay after her. He had a long post war career in the air-force, rising to the rank of Brigadier General. But his involvement in the atomic bombing continued to cause controversy. During the 1960s he was appointed military attach茅 to India, but was forced to step down after protests from all the country鈥檚 political parties. And in 1976, he re-created the Hiroshima raid at an air show in Texas, provoking protests from the Japanese government.
Matthew Bannister talks to Laurence Rees, the 大象传媒鈥檚 Creative Director of History and author of a book on the war in the East.
Paul Tibbets was born February听23rd 1915 and died November听1st 2007. |
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Anthony Clare
Psychiatrist and Broadcaster who has died aged 64.
For nearly twenty years on Radio 4, Professor Anthony Clare made compelling listening as he probed the psyches of the famous and powerful in 鈥淚n the Psychiatrist鈥檚 Chair鈥. The comedian Bob Monkhouse burst into tears when he admitted that his mother hadn鈥檛 spoken to him for 20 years. The agony aunt Claire Rayner also cried when the Professor asked about her unhappy childhood. And Jimmy Saville was revealed as a man who claimed to have no feelings at all.
Clare was educated at a Jesuit school and studied medicine at University College Dublin. In the 1970s he moved to the Maudsley Hospital in London and began broadcasting on Radio 4 as a guest on 鈥淪top the Week鈥 with Robert Robinson. In the 1980s he was head of psychiatric medicine at Bart鈥檚 hospital in London and in the Nineties he returned to Ireland to become medical director of St Patrick鈥檚 hospital and professor of clinical psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin.
Matthew Bannister talks to fellow broadcaster Professor Laurie Taylor and medical colleague Professor Patricia Casey.
Professor Anthony Clare was born December 24th 1942 and died October 29th 2007.
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Ursula Vaughan Williams
Poet and Librettist who has died aged 96.
Ursula Vaughan Williams was a poet and librettist and the second wife of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. They married in 1953, when she was 41 and he was 80. But their friendship had started some fifteen years earlier when they were both married to other people. After his death, Ursula wrote the definitive biography of her husband and acted as guardian of his musical legacy.
She was born in Malta, the daughter of a British Army officer and studied at the Old Vic drama school. In 1933 she married Captain Michael Forrester Wood. During the thirties and forties, Ursula wrote poetry, made poetry programmes for the 大象传媒 and was a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement. But it was after seeing a performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams鈥 ballet, 鈥淛ob鈥, that she resolved to meet the composer.
Matthew Bannister talks to Stephen Connock, chairman of the Ralph Vaughan Williams society.
Ursula Vaughan Williams was born March 15th 1911 and died October 23rd 2007.
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Ray Gravell
Rugby player and commentator who has died aged 56.
Ray Gravell was a Welsh icon. The bearded Llanelli, Wales and British Lions rugby player was known for his physical approach on the pitch 鈥 and his emotional patriotism off it. And, on retiring from his beloved sport, he made a second career as a much-loved broadcaster in both English and Welsh.
Grav 鈥 as he was known 鈥 was also keeper of the ceremonial sword at the National Eisteddfod. He made a number of appearances in films, including playing Jeremy Irons鈥 chauffeur in Louis Malle鈥檚 鈥淒amage鈥 and alongside Sir Anthony Hopkins and Tony Curtis in 鈥淰alley Girls鈥. Ray Gravell was diabetic and earlier this year the condition led to the amputation of his right leg below the knee. Typically he had the Llanelli Scarlets鈥 crest emblazoned on his artificial limb.
Matthew Bannister talks to former leader of the Labour Party, Lord Kinnock and comedian Max Boyce.
Ray Gravell was born on September 12th 1951 and died on 31st October 2007.
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