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Friday听9 January听2009
(Rpt) Sunday听11 January 2009 |
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Professor Sir Alan Walters
Influential economist who advised Margaret Thatcher and has died aged 82
Sir Alan Walters was an economist with an international academic reputation, a monetarist and a euro-sceptic. He worked twice in Number Ten Downing Street 鈥 first between 1981 and 1983 and then for a brief period in 1989 - before a clash with the then Chancellor Nigel Lawson led to both men resigning.
Matthew Bannister talks to former Chancellors of the Exchequer Lord Howe and Lord Lamont, as well as the Director of The Institute of Economic Affairs, John Blundell.
Sir Alan Walters was born on June 17 1926 and died January 3, 2009.
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Dr Colin White
Naval historian and Nelson expert who has died aged 57
Dr Colin White was one of the world鈥檚 leading experts on England鈥檚 great maritime hero Admiral Horatio Nelson. In 2005, he led the celebrations of the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. To mark the occasion, he published an acclaimed book called 鈥淣elson 鈥 the New Letters鈥 鈥 based on painstaking research into more than fourteen hundred unpublished letters and papers which he had unearthed in archives around the world. In 2006, Colin White was appointed Director of the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth.
Matthew Bannister talks to Dr White鈥檚 predecessor at the museum, Dr Campbell McMurray and to Pieter Van Der Merwe of the National Maritime Museum.
Colin White was born August 281951 and died December 25 2008.
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Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek
Nobel Prize winning Virologist who has died aged 85
Dr D. Carelton Gajdusek was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his medical research into brain diseases. His breakthrough came from the study of the disease Kuru, found in a remote tribe living in Papua New Guinea, who practiced ritual cannibalism. But there was another side to Dr. Gajdusek鈥檚 character 鈥 in 1996 he was convicted of molesting one of the boys he had adopted from the tribe, served a prison sentence, and lived the final part of his life in exile.
Matthew Bannister talks to his former student Dr Robert Klitzman, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and author of "The Trembling Mountain:听A personal account of Kuru, Cannibalism and Mad Cow Disease."
Dr D. Carleton Gajdusek was born September 9 1923 and died December 12 2008.
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Valentin Berlinsky
Cellist with the Borodin Quartet who has died aged 83
For more than sixty years, Valentin Berlinsky was the cellist and bedrock of the renowned Borodin string quartet. Living and playing through Stalinism and the constraints of the Soviet era and into post-Communism, Berlinsky offered a link to the history of Russian music. The Borodin Quartet was founded in 1945 and went on to form close relationships with many 20th century composers 鈥 the best known of which was Shostakovitch.
The cellist Julian Lloyd-Webber and music journalist and broadcaster Rob Cowan pay tribute.
Valentin Berlinsky was born January 19 1925 and died December 15 2008.
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