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This week
Friday听24th March 2006
Matthew Bannister听tells the life stories of people who have recently died. This week:Oleg Cassini, Milton Gossett, Jonathan James-Moore, Pytt Geddes and听a homage to Humphrey the Downing Street cat
Oleg Cassini Dress designer to Jackie Kennedy who has died aged 92.
Oleg Cassini was the son of a Russian diplomat and an Italian noblewoman who worked as a fashion designer. Having moved to America in 1936 he landed a contract with Paramount Pictures and embarked on a fashion career which took off when he was appointed dress designer to the President's wife Jackie Kennedy.
Hamish Bowles editor of Vogue in America and curator of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to Jackie Kennedy's style - and Pamela Keogh author of "Jackie Style" join Matthew to discuss Cassini's fashion career.
Oleg Cassini was born on April 11th 1913. He died on March 17th 2006.
Milton Gossett Advertising executive who has died aged 80.
Lord Maurice Saatchi remembers the man he calls a "father figure" - the American adman who rose through the ranks from copywriter to become president of the blue chip company Compton Communications. When Compton was taken over by Saatchi and Saatchi in 1982 the English firm became one of the first to break into the American market as the idea of globalization started to take off.
Jonathan James-Moore memorial service
As Head of Light Entertainment on 大象传媒 Radio , Jonathan James-Moore, oversaw programmes听 such as 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The League of Gentlemen'. He died from cancer aged 59.
Jonathan's memorial service took place this week and Barry Cryer, Andy Hamilton, Russell Davies, Joss Ackland, Pete Atkin听and Armando Iannucci remember their friend and colleague.
Pytt Geddes The woman who introduced T'ai Chi to Britain who has died aged 88
In her youth Pytt joined the Norwegian resistance and eventually escaped to Sweden where she combined a knowledge of psychoanalysis and dance to develop a dance therapy for victims of the concentration camps. Following her marriage to David Geddes in 1948, she moved to Shanghai where she first came across t'ai chi ch'uan.
Her daughter Harriet Devlin and the dancer and choreographer Richard Alston discuss her life and career.
Gerda Meyer Bruun (known as Pytt) was born in Norway on July 17th 1917 and died on March 4th 2006.
Humphrey the Cat
We remember the 18 years of the Downing Street cat named after the civil servant in the television comedy "Yes Minister".
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