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This week
Friday听29th September 2006
(rpt) Sunday听1st October
Matthew Bannister tells the life stories of people who have died recently. This week: Sir Malcolm Arnold, Iva Tugori and听Dr听Christopher Polge.
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Composer who has died aged 84.
Composer Sir Malcolm Arnold is, for some, the most important composer for the twentieth century, by others he is dismissed as populist and erratic in his output. He composed nine symphonies, twenty concertos and one hundred and thirty film scores including Whistle Down The Wind and Belles of St Trinians. His music encompassed dark, bleak composition alongside light weight and funny tunes - a juxtaposition which extended into his turbulent personal life. He suffered from schizophrenia and alcoholism which led to unpredictable and sometimes offensive outbursts.
Matthew Bannister talks to cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, music historian Roderick Swanston and to Sir Malcolm Arnold鈥檚 biographer Paul Jackson.
Sir Malcolm Arnold was born 21st October 1921. He听died 23rd September 2006.听
Iva Toguri
Wrongly imprisoned for being traitor "Tokyo Rose" who has died aged 90.
During the second world war American soldiers fighting in the Pacific listened to women broadcasting propaganda on Japanese radio. They called them all by the generic name Tokyo Rose. As the war came to an end the quest to identify Tokyo Rose began to preoccupy the American media and they searched for someone to blame. That person was Iva Toguri D'Aquino. She was wrongly convicted of treason by an American jury. She was finally pardoned by President Ford twenty years later.
The television reporter Bill Kurtis investigated Iva Toguri d'Aquino's case.听听
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Iva Toguri was born on July 4th 1916. She died on September 26th 2006.
Christopher Polge
Scientist who has died aged 80.
Dr Christopher Polge discovered how to preserve living cells and tissues at very low temperatures. It was a breakthrough which formed the basis for the new science of cryobiology. This discovery has had big practical implications for agriculture and medicine as it has led to the freezing of human embryos, blood cells, sperm, eggs and tissues.
Matthew Bannister talks to Dr Christopher Polge's student Ian Wilmut who went on to create Dolly the sheep following Polge's discoveries.
Dr Christopher Polge was born on August 16 1926. He died on August 17 2006.听
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