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Friday 31st October 2008
(Rpt) Sunday 2nd November
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Amos E. Joel Jr
Inventor qho has died aged 90
Amos E. Joel has a lot to answer for. It was his invention that made it possible for us to have mobile phones. Known in the world of telecommunications as 鈥淢r Switching鈥, Amos Joel developed the technology that allows a mobile call to be uninterrupted when the user moves from one transmitting cell to another. It was one of many innovations that led to Amos being inducted into America鈥檚 National Inventors鈥 Hall of Fame. Working for the phone company AT & T鈥檚 Bell Laboratories, he also developed technology that allowed calls to be made direct instead of through an operator and the first automatic billing equipment.
The fascination with telecommunications started early. When he was just ten years old Amos re-wired the phones in a vacant apartment block so that he and his friends could talk to each other.
Matthew Bannister talks to his daughter Stephanie Joel.
Amos E. Joel Jr died October 25th 2008.
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Peter Collingwood, OBE
Master weaver who has died aged 86
Peter Collingwood was a world renowned weaver who constantly experimented with new techniques. His rugs and wall hangings were works of art, often developed on looms which he had modified in a ramshackle way. His first work sold at Liberty and Heal鈥檚 and later he gained large scale commissions from businesses who wanted to adorn their headquarters with his dramatic hangings. He was a respected teacher and wrote a number of books on his approach to his craft.
Peter first encountered weaving whilst serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the war. He was trained in Sussex by one of Britain鈥檚 most eminent weavers 鈥 Ethel Mairet. In 1964, Peter bought an old school house near Colchester in Essex and set up the studio where he worked for the rest of his life.
Matthew Bannister has been speaking to Linda Theophilis who curated a major retrospective of Collingwood鈥檚 work and to his son Jason who worked alongside him.
Peter Collingwood, OBE was born on March 2nd 1922. He died October 9th 2008.
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Sister Emmanuelle
French nun and humanitarian who has died aged 99
The cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris was packed for the memorial service of Sister Emmanuelle, the French nun who lived with the garbage scavengers of Cairo. Mourners included the French president Nicholas Sarkozy and the wife of the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Sister Emanuelle spent the first part of her life as a teacher working in schools in Turkey, Tunisia and Egypt. But after her retirement at the age of 62, she went to live with the poverty stricken people who scraped an existence on the rubbish dumps of the Egyptian capital.
For the next twenty years she worked to help them, setting up the Sister Emmanuelle Association which now supports disadvantaged children around the world. In France, Sister Emanuelle was a popular national figure who published a number of books and appeared regularly on TV.
Matthew Bannister talks to Sister Emmanuelle's publisher Sophie Belin and Michel Verhulst who is the chairman of the Belgian branch of the Sister Emanuelle Association. Zouina Benhalla reads extracts from Sister Emmanuelle's book 'Sister with the Ragpickers鈥.
Sister Emmanuelle died October 20th 2008.
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Aleck Craddock
Harrods Chairman who has died aged 83
Aleck Craddock was the chairman of Harrods who almost certainly saved hundreds of lives when the IRA bombed the store in December 1983. Twenty thousand people were doing their Christmas shopping when the chairman was told that the IRA had telephoned a warning of bombs planted inside and outside the shop. Craddock took the agonising decision not to evacuate the building. When the car bomb went off outside the main staff entrance, six people were killed and eighty others injured. But many more would have died if an evacuation had been in progress as the bombers intended. Two days later Aleck Craddock reopened the store.
Aleck Craddock joined Harrods as a cracker salesman and rose through the ranks to become the store鈥檚 chairman. He had a close relationship with the royal family and was grantee of the company鈥檚 many royal warrants.
He spoke on听Radio 2鈥檚 John Dunn show when he was Managing Director of the store.
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David Evans
Businessman and MP for Welwyn Hatfield who has died听aged 73
David Evans was a self made businessman who became an outspoken Tory MP. He once said that football hooligans should be flogged.
He was born in Edmonton in North London, failed his eleven plus and attended Tottenham Technical College. He wanted to be a sportsman and was on the books of Aston Villa football club and two county cricket sides for a time.
When he was twenty-five, David Evans set up an office cleaning business with his wife Janice. He eventually sold it for thirty two million pounds. Elected to represent the constituency of Welwyn Hatfield in 1987,听he quickly developed a reputation for expressing his views with a colourful and often blunt turn of phrase.
Matthew Bannister talks to听the former Conservative Minister John Redwood MP听and to the 大象传媒鈥檚 former political correspondent Nicholas Jones.
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David Evans was born April 23rd 1935. He died October 22nd 2008.
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