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Sunday听10th June 2007 |
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James Beck
Art historian who has died aged 77.
James Beck was a respected art historian 鈥 a scholar of the Italian renaissance much loved by his students at Columbia University in New York. But he provoked the anger of many in the arts establishment by his outspoken criticism of restoration work and his challenges to the attribution of what he saw as second rate paintings. James Beck studied history and politics before training as an artist in New York and Italy. He gained his PhD at Columbia in 1963. As well as publishing a number of meticulously researched books and articles on Renaissance art, Professor Beck provoked a high profile libel case in Italy after dismissing the restoration of a tomb by one of his favourite sculptors. He described a Madonna and Child attributed to Raphael and bought by the National Gallery for 拢35 million pounds as a 19th Century fake.
Matthew Bannister talks to Professor David Rosand who worked alongside James Beck at Columbia University.
James Beck was 听born May 14th 1930. He died May 26th 2007.
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Garry Thomson
Scientist at the National Gallery who has died aged 81.
Garry Thomson was head of the science department at London鈥檚 National Gallery. He developed techniques of preventive conservation involving the careful monitoring of light, temperature and humidity to maintain works of art in the best possible condition. His book The Museum Environment 鈥 published in 1978 鈥 became the standard textbook for museums and galleries around the world.
Garry Thomson was also passionately interested in Buddhism, teaching a meditation class, and writing two books on the subject.
Matthew Bannister talks to Sarah Staniforth who is the Historic Properties Director at the National Trust, but who began her career working for Garry Thomson in the scientific department of the National Gallery.
Robert Howard Garry Thomson was born on September 13th 1925. He听died on May 23rd 2007.
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Ed Yost
Engineer, inventor, designer and听father of the modern day hot-air balloon who has died aged 87.
Ed Yost is widely regarded as the father of modern hot air ballooning. In the 1950s, Yost helped to revive the hot air concept, nearly two hundred years after it had first been used by French balloonists. Yost鈥檚 daredevil activities included a flight across the English Channel and an attempt to cross the Atlantic which failed after two thousand seven hundred miles when winds blew him off course and he was forced to ditch in the ocean. He was born on a farm in Iowa in 1919. He graduated as an engineer from the Boeing School of Aeronautics and flew for the US Army Air Corps during the second world war. After the war he worked on the use of balloons for reconnaissance and propaganda purposes. His pioneering work was recognised in the UK last year when the British Balloon and Airship Club presented him with the Lipton Award.
Matthew Bannister talks to the Curator of the US National Balloon Museum in Indianola, Becky Wigeland and to the British balloonist Don Cameron.
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Ed Yost听 was born June 30th 1919. He died May 28th听2007. |
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Professor Stanley Miller
Biologist and Chemist who has died aged 77.
Professor Stanley Miller鈥檚 greatest achievement came when he was just 23 years old. He designed an experiment which showed that the origins of life could have been generated spontaneously in the primordial soup. Stanley Miller was a student of the Nobel prize winning scientist Harold Urey. Professor Urey had advanced the theory that the primaeval atmosphere of the earth would have been similar to that of present day Jupiter 鈥 consisting of water vapour, hydrogen, ammonia and methane, but no oxygen. Stanley Miller badgered his supervisor to let him simulate these conditions in the laboratory.
Matthew Bannister talks to Professor Jeff Bada who worked with Stanley Miller at the University of California.
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Professor Stanley Miller听 was born March 7th 1930.听 He died May 20th 2007. |
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Povel Ramel
Entertainer and songwriter who has died听aged 85.
In Sweden this week, they鈥檝e been mourning the man who made them laugh for nearly fifty years. With songs like 鈥淲hoopee what a bustle in the nesting box last Saturday鈥 , 鈥淎nyone Got an apartment for me?鈥 and his Swedish language cover of 鈥淚鈥檝e Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts鈥 Povel Ramel endeared himself to successive generations of Swedes. Inspired by British variety shows of the 1930s and American novelty artists like Spike Jones, Ramel鈥檚 surreal vaudeville shows were highly popular in the 1950s. He continued to make broadcasts and perform as a solo artist until just before his death at the age of 85. Povel leaves behind more than one thousand comic songs, a number of books of humorous memoirs and some eccentric poetry.
Matthew Bannister talks to Karsten Thurfjell, journalist at the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation.
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Povel Ramel听 was born June 1st 1922. He died June 5th 2007. |
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