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Friday听9th March 2007
(Rpt) Sunday听11th March |
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Ernest Gallo
Winemaker who has died aged 97.听听
In 2005, the E&J Gallo wine company from California generated 2.7 billion dollars worth of sales. It claims to be the world鈥檚 biggest seller of wine by volume. It was founded just over seventy years earlier by two brothers with next to no capital. Ernest Gallo was the marketing brains behind the company whilst his brother Julio concentrated on production. Official accounts of the company's history suggest that the brothers had no experience of wine making when they started the company. They are said to have borrowed 5,000 dollars from Ernest鈥檚 mother in law and discovered their wine making recipe on a pamphlet at the public library. But an unauthorised biography of the family published in 1993听alleged听听that they were already running a wine business during prohibition, that Ernest鈥檚 father shot his mother and then committed suicide and that the two brothers cut their younger sibling out of the successful wine company.
Matthew Bannister talks to wine writer Jancis Robinson and to current executive vice president of E&J Gallo Wines - Jack Owens.
Ernest Gallo was听born March 18th 1909.听听He died March 5th 2007.听听 |
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Lieutenant-Colonel Digby Willoughby
Soldier & Sportsman who has died aged 72.
Lieutenant Colonel Digby Willoughby was born into a military family in India. He seemed to thrive on danger. As an officer in the gurkhas he won the Military Cross for his courage in action to defend Malaysia from attacks by Indonesia. It was whilst he was in the army that Colonel Willoughby developed a taste for the bobsleigh and the toboggan. In 1961 his two man team broke the world record on the St Moritz bobsleigh run and he was a member of the Army Cresta run team in the 1960s and 70s. On his retirement from the services he became the secretary and chief executive of the St Moritz Tobogganing Club 鈥 in charge of the infamous Cresta run.
Matthew Bannister talks to Digby Willoughby鈥檚 friend Julian Board who is president of the club.
Lieutenant-Colonel Digby Willoughby was born on May 4th 1934. He died on February 27th 2007.
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Jean Baudrillard
French philosopher & sociologist who has died aged 77.听
There aren鈥檛 many French philosophers who can claim to have influenced a successful Hollywood movie franchise. But the听Wachowski brothers who directed the Matrix trilogy were certainly paying tribute to the writings of Jean Baudrillard. In fact one of his books 鈥 Simulacra and Simulation 鈥 plays an important part in the plot. Baudrillard described the concept of hyperreality 鈥 a world in which we can no longer tell what is real because we are bombarded by so many media images. His philosophy was born out of his disillusionment with the 1968 student protests in Paris and culminated in controversial books and articles on the Gulf War and 9/11.
Matthew Bannister talk to the Cambridge philosopher Andy Martin and to Jean Baudrillard鈥檚 friend Sylvere Lotringer of Columbia University.
Jean Baudrillard was born July 29th 1929. He听died March 6th 2007. |
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Cecil Gysin
Natural Sausage Casings Broker
If you ever needed a natural casing for your sausages 鈥 the only man to go to in Britain was Cecil Gysin. For more than fifty years Cecil championed the use of sheep, pig and cattle guts against the more mass produced artificial sausage casings. He was a member of what is perhaps one of the world鈥檚 most obscure pressure groups, the International Natural Sausage Casings Association and indeed was chairman of its 1993 congress in Geneva. When not discussing the finer details of sausage production, Cecil was also an award winning short story writer, a keen skier and gardener and an accomplished dancer. The chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was one of Cecil鈥檚 committed customers.
Matthew Bannister talks to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. |
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Sir John Smith
Founder of the Landmark Trust who has died aged 83.
Sir John Smith set up the Landmark Trust to save and restore the smaller, quirkier and more obscure examples of our architectural heritage. He used his background in the City to establish a fund, the Manifold Trust, which bought the end of long term leases, creating what he called 鈥渁 cataract of gold鈥 for the Landmark trust and other conservation projects. Educated at Eton, Sir John joined the Fleet Air Arm during the war and then became a director of Coutts Bank.
Sir John wanted the properties restored by the Landmark Trust to be more than museums and so he made them available to be rented out to holiday makers. Now the Trust owns 184 buildings including small forts, manor houses, water towers, follies, cottages and gatehouses.
Matthew Bannister talks to Sir John Smith鈥檚 friend Sonia Rolt who worked with him at the Landmark Trust.
Sir John Smith was born on April 3rd 1923. He died on February 28th 2007.
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