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Friday 27th October 2006
(rpt) SundayÌý29th October |
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Eric Newby
Travel writer who has died aged 86.
Eric Newby spent more than half a century visiting some of the world’s remotest places. From 'Slowly Down The Ganges' (1966) to 'Round Ireland in Low Gear' (1987), he was an intrepid traveller who delighted in adventure, and it going wrong. He did much of his travelling with his wife of sixty years, Wanda. They met while Eric was a prisoner of war in Italy during the Second World War. He went to find her once the war was over and turned their story into a book 'Love and War in the Appenines'.
During the 1960s and into the 70s he was the travel editor of the Observer, but before the travel bug bit he worked in the family clothing business and was the central buyer for ladies’ model dresses at John Lewis. He is best known for his book 'A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush'.
Julian Worricker talks to Hugh Carless who was his companion on 'A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush' and to his son, Jonathan Newby.
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Eric Newby was born December 6th 1919. He died October 20th 2006.
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Jeff Getty
AIDS patient and activist who in 1995 received the first baboon-to-human bone marrow transplant has died aged 49.
Jeff Getty was 38 and had been given less than six months to live when he volunteered to have the bone marrow of a baboon infused into his body. The surgery was performed on December 14th 1995 at San Francisco General Hospital.
Despite his body rejecting the baboon cells Jeff’s health improved and he went on to live for another ten years. He spent this time campaigning for greater access to drugs, drug developments and organ transplants for AIDS patients.
Julian Worricker talks to Gay Rights campaigner Larry Kramer, Dr Suzanne Ilstad who oversaw the operation and Jeff’s partner Ken
Jeff Getty was born July 14th 1957. He died October 9th 2006.
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Paul Walters
Producer of Terry Wogan’s breakfast show who has died aged 59.
Radio and television producer Paul Walters produced Radio 2’s hugely successful 'Wake Up To Wogan' programme. Under his guidance, daily listener figures regularly reached eight million. He was known to listeners as Dr Wally or Pauly and his off mic banter with Terry Wogan became an integral part of the morning routine.
He introduced e-mails to the programme, generating a huge stream of audience input. He was an innovative music programmer and is credited with introducing Eva Cassidy and Katie Melua to the listening public.
Julian Worricker talks to Terry Wogan.
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Paul Walters was bornÌýJune 15thÌý1947. He diedÌýOctober 21stÌý2006. |
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Valerie Finnis
Gardener and photographer who has died aged 81.
Valerie Finnis was eighteen when she joined Waterperry Horticultural School for women near Oxford in 1942. She worked there for nearly thirty years and during that time she became an expert in alpine plants. She also specialised in photographing plants and gardens using the same camera for forty years.
In 1975 she was awarded the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Victorian Medal of Honour and in recent years she set up the Merlin Trust offering financial assistance to young horticulturalists.
Julian Worricker talks to gardening columnist Ursula Buchan who has known Valerie Finnis since childhood.
Valerie Finnis was born October 31st 1924. She died October 17th 2006. |
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Anna Russell
Singer who has died aged 94.
Anna Russell was born into a musical family. She studied opera at the Royal College of Music in London, but discovered the comic possibilities of opera and classical music when she tripped over on the stage during a performance of Cavalleria Rusticana to huge applause.
Last Word plays an extract of Anna Russell’s ‘How to write your own Gilbert and Sullivan opera’.
Anna Russell was born December 27th 1911. She died on October 18th 2006. |
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