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Radio 4's weekly obituaries programme |
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Friday听29th August听2008
(Rpt) Sunday听31st August |
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Ronnie Drew
Lead singer with the Dubliners
In their home city, the Dubliners were much more than musicians - coming to be seen as the embodiment of a free-booting, hard-drinking rebelliousness that typified a certain kind of Irishness. The bearded Ronnie Drew was at the centre of it all, inspiring the next generation of Irish musicians. Appropriately enough the Dubliners started life in a pub in the Irish capital.听Originally known as the Ronnie Drew Group, they later named themselves after the book of James Joyce short stories. As the band went on to international success, Ronnie never forgot his roots in Dublin. The writer Fintan O'Toole and the musician Christy Moore have been remembering the distinctive voice of Ronnie Drew.
Ronnie Drew was born 16 September 1934 and died 16 August 2008 |
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Wolfgang Vogel
East German lawyer who arranged Cold War 'spy swaps'
Wolfgang Vogel was behind many of the exchanges of prisoners which took place between East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Having built up influential contacts in the East German government, he also persuaded the Western authorities that he could be trusted. So, at a time when there were no diplomatic relations between East and West, he acted as a high level go-between. Vogel also handled the negotiations for a scheme in which more than two hundred thousand East German citizens were 鈥渂ought out鈥 by the West German government and allowed to emigrate in return for hard currency. Dr. Jochen Staadt is a historian and Gabriele Seidel is one of the people who Vogel helped to leave East Germany.
Wolfgang Vogel was born 30 October 1925 and died 21 August 2008. |
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Levy Mwanawasa
President of Zambia
Levy Mwanawasa was a lawyer by profession. He helped to found the opposition Movement for Multi-Party Democracy and became Vice President of Zambia under Frederick Chiluba in 1991, resigning from the post in protest at government corruption. When he was elected President after disputed elections in 2001, he made the fight against corruption central to his term of office. Karen Allen is the 大象传媒鈥檚 East Africa Correspondent and Kennedy Gondwe reports from Zambia.
Levy Mwanawasa was born 3 September 1948 and died 19 August 2008. |
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Rodney Gordon
'Brutalist' architect
Eros House in Catford, The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth and the Trinity Centre in Gateshead are all examples of the so-called Brutalist school, and were all, in part, the work of architect Rodney Gordon. Often villified by the public, they are now being held up as highlights of a distinctively British style of building, typical of the 1960s. Matthew speaks to architect Owen Luder and Catherine Croft, Director of the Twentieth Century Society.
Rodney Gordon was born 2 February 1933 and died 30 May 2008. |
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Margaret Sainsbury, formerly Margaret Wilkins
Matriarch at the heart of the 1974 TV series 'The Family'
In 1974, Margaret Wilkins became the first star of a new style of fly on the wall reality TV. Cameras were allowed into the cramped flat over a greengrocers in Reading where she lived with her husband Terry and their four children. They spent six months creating a warts and all picture of 'The Family', a series produced by Paul Watson and which captivated millions of viewers. We鈥檝e been talking to Margaret鈥檚 daughter Marian Hodder.
Margaret Sainsbury died on 10 August 2008 aged 73. |
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