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Friday听11th听August 2006
(rpt) Sunday 13th August 2006 |
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Dr Vincent Dole
Doctor who pioneered the use of methadone to treat heroin addiction has died aged 93.
Dr Vincent Dole studied medicine at Harvard and began his career as an assistant kidney researcher at the Rockefeller Institute. Later he studied obesity and noticed that some people crave food in the same way as addicts crave drugs. He wondered whether the effects could be related and concluded that addiction is a metabolic disorder - not just a bad habit - which must treated like any other chronic illness. His was a lone voice at a time when some clinicians tried to cure addicts by giving them lobotomies. But then Dole found a book called the 'Drug Addict As Patient'听written by Marie Nyswander whom he later married. In 1964 he asked her to join him on a research project and together they began to shift a handful of long term heroin users onto less harmful drugs. They found that methadone, first developed by German chemists as a painkiller, satisfied the physical cravings of addiction but didn't make users high or subject them to violent mood swings.
Dr Robert Newman,听Director of the Baron Edmund de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Unit in New York remembers his friend and colleague. |
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Cecily Mackworth
Biographer/travel writer/war correspondent who has died aged 94.
Cecily Mackworth was a born into a Welsh coal-owning dynasty in Monmouthshire, she got through a string of governesses and studied at the London School of Economics before escaping abroad. Mackworth was determined to pack as much as possible into her life and by the time she was 30 she had eloped with a Hungarian, married a Belgian, watched the Reichstag burn in Berlin, published a book of poems in Paris and fled from the Nazis.听
Mackworth was a prolific literary critic and an authority on the poetry of Mallarme, Apollinaire and Villon. Yet her first real success was a piece of reportage: her book about fleeing from the advancing German army, 'I Came Out of France' . TS Eliot was so impressed by her vivid account that he invited her to tea in Russell Square during the Blitz. She witnessed more bombs and violence when she went to Palestine to cover the birth of the state of Israel for a French newspaper.
At the time of her death, she was working with the Paris based writer, Anthony Sheridan, on the second volume of her autobiography and he joins Lucy Ash.
Cecily Mackworth was born on August 15th听1911. She听died听July 22nd 2006.听 |
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John Rundle
Neurologist who worked with survivors of torture who has died aged 82.
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For much of his life John Rundle was confronted by sickening evidence of man's inhumanity to man. As a neurologist working with the survivors of torture, he had an encyclopaedic knowledge of sadistic techniques practised in police cells, prisons and other dark places around the world. He knew that many victims were so damaged afterwards they could barely speak, let alone answer questions from bureaucrats and deal with all the paperwork that goes into making a claim for asylum.听
Helen Bamber who founded the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture and one of John Rundle's former patients join Lucy Ash in the studio.
John Rundle was born on August 15th 1923. He died July 21st 2006 |
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Arthur Lee
Singer/guitarist with 1960s rock band Love has died aged 61 following a听battle with leukemia.
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Arthur Lee, the leader of the Los Angeles psychedelic folk rockers 'Love', liked to call himself the "first black hippie". He was brought up as a young boy in a racially segregated Tennessee and formed rock's first mixed race band. Lee reached the height of his fame in 1967, when his third album, 'Forever Changes',听came out.
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Love's original lead guitarist Johnny Echols spoke to Lucy Ash on a mobile phone from Arizona about his favourite Arthur Lee song, 'You Set the Scene'.
Arthur Taylor Porter听was born on March 7th 1945.听He听died August 3rd 2006. |
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Roy Selwyn Smith
Master toymaker听who has died aged 82.
Roy Selwyn Smith's heraldic miniature knights were described in Peter Greenhill's 'Heraldic Miniature Knights' as the world's finest set of metal knights. And听the plastic toy soldiers he designed for Herald听in the 1950s and for Britain's Ltd from 1959 brought happiness to millions of children.听
Lucy Ash听went to Christies where they are auctioning moulds made by Roy.听She met Hugh Marsh - Christie's expert on Toys and Charles Biggs, a friend and former colleague of Roy Selwyn-Smith.
Roy Selwyn Smith was born September 22nd 1923.听He听died June 16th 2006.
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