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Sunday听20:30-21:00听(rpt)
Radio 4's weekly obituaries programme |
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Friday听24th October 2008
(Rpt) Sunday听26th October |
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Pat Kavanagh
Literary Agent who has died aged 68
The death of the literary agent Pat Kavanagh has produced an outpouring of grief from her many distinguished clients. She represented a long list of influential writers, from Margaret Drabble, Arthur Koestler and Laurie Lee to Joanna Trollope, William Trevor, Clive James and her husband Julian Barnes.
Pat Kavanagh鈥檚 clients were famously loyal, with the notable exception of Martin Amis who left her after twenty three years for another agent, provoking a breakdown in his long friendship with Julian Barnes.
In 2001, Pat Kavanagh was distressed when her long established agency Peters Fraser and Dunlop was taken over by an American sports management company. The publishing world was shocked when she and others decided to leave to set up a new company 鈥 United Agents.
Matthew Bannister talks to听three of Pat Kavanagh鈥檚 clients, Blake Morrison, Russell Davies听and the poet laureate Andrew Motion.
Pat Kavanagh was born听January 31st听1940. She died听October 20th听2008. |
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Levi Stubbs
Four Tops lead singer who has died aged 72
The Four Tops were one of the most successful and influential groups on the Motown label in the 1960s and 70s. Spearheading their unique sound were the lead vocals of Levi Stubbs 鈥 a baritone with a wonderful line in soulful emotion. He powered hits like 鈥淏ernadette鈥, 鈥淩each Out I鈥檒l Be There鈥 and 鈥淪tanding in the Shadows of Love鈥 to the upper reaches of the charts in the USA and around the world.
Levi Stubbs was born Levi Stubbles in Detroit, Michigan. At school he was friends with Abdul 鈥淒uke鈥 Fakir 鈥 who is now the last surviving member of the Four Tops.
Matthew Bannister talks to Duke Fakir.
Levi Stubbs was born June 6th 1936. He died听October 17th 2008. |
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Lieutenant Ted Briggs MBE
HMS Hood survivor who has died aged 85
Ted Briggs was one of only three men to survive the sinking of the battlecruiser HMS Hood during the Second World War. The Hood was one of the largest and most famous ships in the British naval fleet between the wars. She was sunk in 1941 off the coast of Greenland in a battle with the much newer and better armed German warship, the Bismark.
Ted Briggs was born at Redcar in Yorkshire. He saw HMS Hood moored off the river Tees when he was twelve and went to volunteer for the navy the next day. Told to come back when he was older, he finally signed up three years later. When the Hood went into battle with the Bismark, Ted was an eighteen year old boy signalman. He stayed in the Navy after the war, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant and an MBE in 1973.
Matthew Bannister talks to听the vice president of the HMS Hood Association, Commander Keith Evans.
Lieutenant Edward Briggs MBE was born March 1st听1923. He died October 5th 2008. |
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Pat Moss
Rally driver who has died aged 73
In the 1950s and 60s Pat Moss was a very British celebrity. She was an international showjumper who became a tough but glamorous rally driver, enjoying good humoured sibling rivalry with her brother, the racing driver Stirling Moss. She was a pioneer in a sport in which few women could take on the men and beat them at their own game.
Pat won the European Ladies鈥 Rally Championship five times and the Coupe des Dames in the Monte Carlo Rally eight times. But it was her outright victory in the gruelling Liege-Rome-Liege rally in 1960 that probably gave her the most pleasure. It was the first time that a female driver had won an international rally.
Matthew Bannister talks to her husband Eric Carlsson, to Sir Stirling Moss and to her daughter Suzy.听
Pat Moss was born December 27th听1934. She听died听October 16th 2008.
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