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Friday听16th June 2006
Matthew Bannister tells the life stories of people who have died recently. This week: Charles Haughey, Gyorgy Ligeti and Lord Kenneth Thomson.
Charles Haughey Former Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) who has died aged 80.
Charles Haughey was prime minister of Ireland three times -听1979-81, 1982 and 1987-92.
He was a glamorous figure in Irish public life听but his听long career was dogged by scandal and allegations of corruption.
Two observers of Irish politics Fintan O'Toole and Tom McGurk give us their view of the former premier.
Charles Haughey听was born on September 16th 1925. He died on June 13th 2006.
Gyorgy Ligeti Hungarian composer who has died aged 83.
Gyorgy Ligeti escaped from tyranny twice. He survived the Nazi concentration camps where most of his Hungarian Jewish family died and fifty years ago Ligeti hid under a mail train to escape the Soviet Red Army tanks which rolled into Budapest killing thousands.
Freed from the restrictions of the communist regime, Ligeti was able to develop as an influential 20th Century composer, embracing a diverse range of styles. Stanley Kubrick used听 Ligeti's work in听his films '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.听
We hear from Hungarian conductor Laszlo Heltay and an interview Ligeti recorded five years ago with John Tusa.
Gyorgy Sandor Ligeti was born May 28th 1923.听He听died on the June 12th 2006.
Lord Kenneth Thomson Former Times and Sunday Times owner who has died aged 82.
Canadian peer Kenneth Thomson took over the running听of the听publishing and travel business, the Thomson Group,听from his flamboyant father Roy Thomson. In 1981 he sold the Times group to Rupert Murdoch following听a long dispute with the Unions over the introduction of new technology. Former editor of the Times and Sunday Times, Lord Rees-Mogg, describes this period of the newspaper's history.
In Canada he was known as the country's wealthiest man and he has听donated more than two thousand art works to the Art Gallary of Ontario - amongst them听Ruben's painting 'The Massacre of the Innocents' which he bought for 拢45 million. The Director of the gallery Matthew Teitelbaum discusses听his collection.
Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, was born September 1st 1923. He听died June 12th 2006.
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