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This week
Friday 24听February听2006
Matthew Bannister听tells the life stories of people who have recently died. This week: Norman Shumway, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, Peter Ladefoged, Betty Heathfield and Horace Sankey.
Norman Shumway
heart transplant pioneer who has died aged 83
The first heart transplant was performed by the South African doctor Christian Barnard but the techniques he used to cool the heart were developed by Norman Shumway in America. When other surgeons abandoned transplants because of the high fatality rates - Norman Shumway continued to investigate how to prevent the rejection of the new heart following surgery and gained success using a drug suggested to him by Professor Roy Calne.
Professor Calne discusses his American colleague and the early days of transplant surgery.听
Archbishop Paul Marcinkus who has died aged 84
Father Marcinkus - who was nicknamed 'The Gorilla' was ordained as a bishop in 1969 and acted as a bodyguard to Pope John Paul II, preventing a knife attack on the Pope in 1970. He presided over the Vatican Bank for 18 years and was charged but not convicted when Italy's largest private bank Banco Ambrosiano went bankrupt in 1982. The head, Roberto Calvi, was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London shortly after this collapse.
As a young priest in the 50s he studied in London. His landlord George Crawford recalls this period. John Cornwell, author of A Thief in the Night, discusses his Vatican career.听
Betty Heathfield co-founder of the Women Against Pit Closures with Anne Scargill has died aged 78
Anne Scargill talks to Matthew Bannister.
Horace Sankey who has died aged 63
A local character who led South Derbyshire miners during the strike of 1984-85 and was part of the breakaway movement that founded the Union of Democratic Mineworkers.
Local Reverand, Alan Burgess and friend Graham Knight discuss Horace's campaigning lifestyle.
Peter Ladefoged linguist and consultant to Rex Harrison on My Fair Lady who has died aged 80听
Former colleague and co-author of The Sounds of the World's Languages, Ian Maddieson, reflects on the life of phonetician, Peter Ladefoged.听
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