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Friday听16th May 2008
(Rpt) Sunday 18th May
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Robert Rauschenberg
Artist who has died aged 82
The American artist Robert Rauschenberg said he operated in the gap between art and life 鈥 and certainly no material, however humble, was off limits. He used car tyres, newspaper, light bulbs, coke bottles, vegetables, shirts and anything else that came to hand in making his art. He claimed to 鈥渟peak the secret language of junk鈥.
Robert Rauschenberg was born Milton Rauschenberg at Port Arthur in Texas. He studied pharmacy at the University of Texas and during the war worked as a neuropsychiatric technician for the Navy 鈥 having announced that there was no point giving him a gun as he had no intention of killing anyone.
After the war he decided to study art, first in Kansas City, then in Paris 鈥 where he was hampered by an inability to speak French. He was happiest at Black Rock College in North Carolina.
Matthew Bannister talks to the art critic, Tim Marlow, who听visited Robert Rauschenberg at his home on an island off the Florida coast in 1998.
Robert Rauschenberg was born October 22nd 1925. He died May 12th 2008.
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Nuala O'Faolain
Irish journalist, writer and commentator who has died aged 68
The Irish writer Nuala O鈥橣aolain treated her diagnosis with cancer with the same searing and personal honesty that she鈥檇 treated the rest of her life. Perhaps best known outside her home country for her memoir 鈥淎re You Somebody鈥 published in 1996, Nuala was already a household name in Ireland for her column in the Irish Times and her work on TV.
She was a feminist, an intellectual and one of the people who helped to re-define the role of women in Irish society during the 1970s and 80s.听She never married or had children although she had passionate relationships with a number of men 鈥 and one, for over thirteen years, with a woman 鈥 the journalist and civil rights activist Nell McCafferty.
It was typical of Nuala that 鈥 a month before she died and having refused any further treatment for her cancer - she chose to give a bleak, honest and uncompromising interview to her friend the RTE Radio 1听presenter Marian Finucane.
Matthew Bannister talks to Marian Finucane and the former President听of Ireland, Mary Robinson.听
Nuala O'Faolain was born in 1940. She died May 9th 2008.
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Fred J Taylor
Author and television presenter on rural affairs who has died aged 89
Fred J. Taylor was a countryman to his fingertips. For more than fifty years he passed on his enthusiasm and knowledge of the outdoors through books, articles and TV programmes. He wrote extensively on fishing, but also on shooting and on cooking. His first article was published in the Angling Times in 1954.
Fred J Taylor was born in Bedfordshire and won a scholarship to Aylesbury Grammar School where he did well in languages and English. However, he spent much of his time roaming the countryside, teaching himself to fish and catch game.
During the war he served with the Royal Tank Regiment in North Africa and France, but his culinary skills were recognised when he was given the job of cooking for the officers鈥 mess.
Matthew Bannister talks to听Fred J Taylor's听friend and fishing companion, the TV presenter, Chris Tarrant.
Frederick James Taylor was born February 9th 1919. He died May 7th 2008.
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Irena Sendlerowa
Rescuer of Warsaw Jews who has died aged 98
Irena Sendlerowa was one of the heroines of the Nazi occupation of Poland during the second world war. She rescued an estimated two and a half thousand Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto 鈥 taking great personal risks in the process.听
She and her colleagues risked their lives to smuggle the children out of the ghetto and place them in safe houses. In recognition of her extraordinary work she was awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli government.
Adam Easton reports from Warsaw with Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich and one of the children she saved Elzbieta Ficowska, who is now leader of the Children of the Holocaust Association.
Irena Sendlerowa was born February 15th 1910. She died May 12th 2008.
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