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Friday听18th July 2008
(Rpt) Sunday听20th July |
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Dr Michael DeBakey
Pioneering cardiovascular surgeon听who has died听aged 99
Dr Michael DeBakey听was a pioneering American heart surgeon whose patients included many US Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. He also treated the Shah of Iran, the King of Jordan and the former Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Dr. DeBakey carried out more than sixty thousand operations 鈥 the last of them at the age of ninety.
Michael DeBakey was born in Louisiana, the son of a Lebanese immigrant who worked as a pharmacist. His interest in medicine was sparked by listening to the conversations of doctors who visited his father鈥檚 shop. He studied in New Orleans, pointing out that when he finished medical school in 1932 patients who had a heart attack were 鈥渋n the hands of God鈥. Dr. DeBakey set about changing that. He served in the American army during the war and, from 1948, was Professor of Surgery at Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston Texas.
Matthew Bannister talks to听Dr Michael DeBakey's听colleagues Dr. Chuck Brunicardi and Dr. Kenneth Maddox.听
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Dr Michael DeBakey was born September 7th 1908. He died July 11th 2008. |
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Vice Admiral Sir Tony Troup
Submariner听who has died aged 86
In June 1943, Tony Troup became Britain鈥檚 youngest ever submarine captain at the age of 21 years and ten months. His first command was a training submarine in British waters, but before the end of the year, he was in charge of the submarine Strongbow, based at Trincomalee in what was then Ceylon. Tony Troup went on to take part in a number of hazardous operations against the Japanese which won him two DSCs. After the war he rose through the ranks of the navy, becoming Flag Officer Sea Training, Flag Officer Submarines and Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland. He retired as Vice Admiral Sir Tony Troup.听
Matthew Bannister talks to听the former Director of the Royal Naval Submarine Museum, Commander Jeff Tall and there听is an interview Tony Troup recorded for the Imperial War Museum.听
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Vice Admiral Sir Tony Troup was born July 18th 1921. He died July 8th 2008. |
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Valentine Vester
Proprietor of the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem who has died aged 96
It could be said that Valentine Vester married into the Middle East. She was born and brought up in Yorkshire, but her husband Horatio was the descendant of a wealthy family from Chicago who had moved to Jerusalem in the nineteenth century to do good works among the poor. The family bought a former Arab palace and turned it into a hostel for pilgrims. By the time Horatio and Valentine moved there in 1963, it had become the American Colony Hotel. The couple took it over and turned it into a commercial success.
Many famous guests stayed at the hotel, including the actor and raconteur Peter Ustinov.
The hotel became known as a haven for diplomats and foreign correspondents covering the region鈥檚 turbulent history. It was often the backdrop for crucial political events. In room 16, Israeli and Palestinan negotiators secretly drafted parts of the Oslo peace accord.
Matthew Bannister talks to regular guests at the hotel -听大象传媒 correspondents Lyse Doucet and Paul Adams and 大象传媒 reporter Marylin Rust went to visit Valentine Vester鈥檚 Jerusalem landmark.
Valentine Richmond was born in 1912. She听died June 15th 2008.
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Bronislaw Geremek
Polish politician and academic听 who has died aged 76
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Bronislaw Geremek was a Polish intellectual who became a prominent politcian. The pipe smoking specialist in mediaeval French history was present at many of the tumultuous events that shaped his country鈥檚 history. He helped to shape it himself as a key advisor to the Solidarity leader Lech Walesa in the 1980s and as the country鈥檚 Foreign Minister in the 1990s. Born in Warsaw into a Jewish family, Bronislaw Geremek lost both parents in the holocaust and narrowly avoided deportation to Treblinka himself when a Polish family rescued him from the Warsaw ghetto in 1943.
大象传媒 reporter in Warsaw, Adam Easton,听discusses Bronislaw Geremek with Poland鈥檚 current Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski.
Bronislaw Geremek was born March听6th听1932. He听died July 13th听2008. |
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