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Friday听7th December 2007
(Rpt) Sunday听9th听December |
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Evel Knievel
Stuntman who has died aged 69
Evel Knievel held the world record for broken bones 鈥 having suffered more than 430 fractures in his pursuit of fame and fortune.听He was born Robert Kneivel in Butte Montana. His parents divorced and both left town, so Robert was brought up by his grandparents. On leaving school, he went to work in the local copper mines, but was said to have been sacked when he made the earth mover do a wheelie and drove it into the city鈥檚 main power line. Knievel began to get into more and more trouble with the law.
Matthew Bannister talks to听the Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond听 who earlier this year went to Butte Montana to interview Evel Knievel for a TV special to be shown on 大象传媒 1 on Christmas Day and to听Knievel's friend Bill Rundle.
Evel Knievel was born on October 17th 1938. He died November 30th 2007.
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Edmund Vestey
Businessman who has died aged 75听
Edmund Vestey was born into one of the richest families in Britain. He was educated at Eton and served in the army before joining one of the largest family businesses in the world. The Vestey fortune had been built up by Edmund鈥檚 grandfather who had transformed his butchery business into a world wide empire by exploiting the potential of refrigeration. The group of companies included well known names like Dewhurst the butchers and Blue Star Line shipping.
Matthew Bannister talks to the business editor of the Spectator, Martin Van Der Weyer, to听Edmund's cousin Lord Vestey and听his son George.听
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Edmund Vestey 听was born on June 19th 1932. He died November 23rd 2007.
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Air Vice-Marshal Peter Howard, CB, OBE
RAF physician who has died aged 81听
The RAF physician Air Vice Marshall Peter Howard devoted his life to developing ways to make flying safer 鈥 and in doing so often put his own health at risk. In 1962 he carried out the first live in-flight test of a rocket powered ejector seat 鈥 from a plane flying at three hundred miles per hour at an altitude of only two hundred and fifty feet. Until then, some pilots ejecting at low altitudes had suffered spinal injuries as a result of the G-force from the older cartridge powered seats.
Peter Howard was educated at Farnborough Grammar School and spent almost all his career at the Institute of Aviation medicine in the same town, becoming Commandant in 1975. He was a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and of the Royal College of Physicians. He was also听medical director to the panel selecting Britain鈥檚 first astronaut along with Professor Heinz Wolff.
Matthew Bannister talks to听Peter Howard's听colleagues Dr. David Glaister, ProfessorJohn Ernsting and Professor Heinz Wolff.听
Peter Howard听was born December 15th1925. He died October 21th 2007. |
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Anton Rodgers
Actor who has died aged 74
Anton Rodgers made his name playing an older man with a much younger wife in 鈥淢ay to December鈥 and in 鈥淔resh Fields鈥 which satirised the vagaries of middle aged marriage. As a young boy at Westminster School in London, he wanted to become a doctor, but his mother who ran a dancing school recruited him into her shows and put pressure on him to become an actor. She persuaded him not to go to university, but to attend the Italia Conti Academy and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
Anton Rodgers appeared in a number of films and had a very successful stage career, appearing in Songbook, Waiting for Godot and Pickwick 鈥 both in the West End and on Broadway. In the 1960s and 70s he also became a respected director with successful shows at the Hampstead Theatre, the Northcott Theatre in Exeter and the Oxford Playhouse. But it was his TV sitcom work that brought him to the widest audience.
Matthew Bannister talks to his on screen partner Julia Mackenzie.
Anton Rodgers was born January 10th 1933. He died December 1st 听2007. |
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