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Radio 4's weekly obituaries programme |
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Friday3rd August 2007
(Rpt) Sunday5th August |
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Richard Stott
Journalist who has diedaged 63.
RichardStott edited three tabloid newspapers and Alastair Campbell’s diaries. He was an award winning reporter and features editor before taking charge of the Daily Mirror, which he edited twice – once in the 1980s and again in the 1990s. He also edited the Sunday People and the Today newspaper.
Richard Stott was born in Oxford, the son of a draughtsman who mostly lived apart from his wife and family. He went straight from school into journalism, landing his first job on the Bucks Herald. As a tabloid editor he worked for two of the industry’s most demanding proprietors – Robert Maxwell at the Mirror and Rupert Murdoch at Today.
The former Government Director of Communications Alastair Campbell worked for Richard Stott as political editor of the Mirror. The two men became friends and Richard Stott’s last job was editing Campbell’s recently published diaries of the Blair Years.
Matthew Bannister talks to Alastair Campbell.
Richard Keith Stott wasborn August 17th 1943. He died July 30th 2007. |
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Phil Drabble OBE
Television presenter who has diedaged 93.
When a television producer approached Phil Drabble and asked him to present a new programme based on sheep dog trials, the countryman told him not to be so daft. “The viewers will fall off their perches with boredom”, he said. But these objections were overcome and for seventeen years Phil Drabble was the voice and face of “One Man and His Dog” which at its peak attracted eight million viewers to ѿý2.
To fans of the programme, Drabble was the embodiment of an English countryman. Although he was passionate about the country from childhood, Phil Drabble worked for many years at an engineering company called Salters in West Bromwich where he rose from the factory floor to the board of directors. At the age of forty seven he retired to concentrate on his writing and broadcasting and to work with his wife Jess developing a nature reserve in an ancient woodland in the West Midlands where he made his home.
Matthew Bannister talks to Angela Rippon who presented a ѿý television programme called “In The Country” with Phil Drabble.
Phil Drabble was born May 14th 1914. He died July 29th 2007.
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Film director who has died aged 94.
Michaelangelo Antonioni was aninfluential Italian director whose career included“L’Avventura”, “Blow Up” and “Zabriskie Point”.He was born into a middle class family in Ferrara in Northern Italy andstudied classics and political economy at Bologna University where he also wrote plays and formed a theatrical company.
Emma Wallis reports from Rome and Matthew Bannister talks to John-David Rhodes who is a lecturer in film at Sussex University.
Michelangelo Antonioni wasborn September 29th 1912. He died July 30th 2007.
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Albert Ellis
Psychologist and psychotherapist who has died aged 93.
Albert Ellis was one of the best known and most influential psychotherapists of the post Freudian era. In fact a survey of clinical psychologists carried out in 1982 put Ellis’s influence ahead of Freud’s.
Working in New York in the 1950s, Albert Ellis developed an approach called Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - or R.E.B.T- first outlined in his book “How to Live With a Neurotic”.
In 1959, Albert Ellis founded the Institute for Rational Living in New York, which is now named after him.
Matthew Bannister talks to Kristene Doyle who is Director of Clinical Services at the Institute.and the Head of City University’s psychology department, Dr Malcolm Cross.
Albert Ellis wasborn September 27th1913. Hedied July 24th2007. |
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