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Friday3rd November2006
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P W Botha
Former South African prime minister and president who has died aged 90.
PW Botha was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and President from 1984 to 1989 when he was replaced by FW de Klerk. He presided over the relaxation of the some apartheid laws including the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and the Pass Laws although he resisted concessions to the black population or to hostile international opinion. The constitutional reforms were combined with bloody crackdowns on violent opposition and increased military repression by the South African police force. He always claimed he knew nothing of the actions of his security forces and governed over an era of appalling human rights abuses. He was brought back into the limelight in the 1990s by his refusal to testify on his rule at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
ѿý’s South Africa correspondent Peter Biles on the response in South Africa to PW Botha’s death.
Matthew Bannister talks to PW Botha’s foreign minister Pik Botha and to anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman.
P W Botha born January12th 1916. He died 31st October 2006. |
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Nigel Kneale
Screenwriter who has died aged 84.
Nigel Kneale created The Quatermass Experiment which was UK television’s first science fiction serial and kept a generation of viewers on the edge of their seats when it first went out in the 1950s.
His screen adaptations include: John Osborne's 'Look Back in Anger' (1958), 'The Entertainer' (1960), 'Hallowe'en III: Season of the Witch' (1982), 'The Woman in Black' by Susan Hill (1989), 'Kingsley Amis's Stanley and the Women (1991) and episodes for the series 'Sharpe's Rifles' and 'Kavanagh QC' (1997).
Matthew Bannister talks to Nigel Kneale’s son, Matthew Kneale who won the Whitbread Prize for his novel “English Passengers”, along with critic and author Kim Newman and the TV producer Ted Childs.
Thomas Nigel Kneale was born April 18th 1922. Hedied October 29th 2006.
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Olivia Breitha
Diagnosed with leprosy and sent into exile. She has died aged 90.
In 1934, Olivia was a happy eighteen year old living with her parents in Hawaii and planning to get married to her fiancé. But a medical check up changed all that. Olivia was diagnosed with Hansen's disease (leprosy), forcibly removed from her loved ones, sent first to hospital and then to the leper colony on the peninsula of Kalaupapa.
Olivia Breitha was an outspoken campaigner for the rights of leprosy sufferers. She was a prominent member of an organisation called IDEA – which campaigns for Integration, Dignity and Economic Advancement for Hansen sufferers.
Matthew Bannister talks to IDEA’s international co-ordinator Anwei Law.
Extracts from her memoir'Olivia My Life of Exile In Kalaupapa'read by Liza Ross.
Olivia Breitha was born June 6th 1916. She died September 28th 2006.
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Peter Barkworth
Actor who has died aged 77.
Peter Barkworth’s career spanned fifty years during which time he worked across theatre, film and television. His best known role wasprobably as a high flying banker in Telford’s Change, the popular television series. He also appeared in Dr. Who, the Avengers and Colditz.
He won a BAFTA for his performance in Tom Stoppard’s Professional Foul and was acclaimed for his stage portrayal of Edward VIII in “Crown Matrimonial”. He also took time to pass on the secrets of his craft to the next generation of actors by teaching at the drama school RADA.
Matthew Bannister speaks to two of his former pupils at RADA, Richard Wilson and Dame Diana Rigg.
Peter Barkworth was bornJanuary 14th 1929. He died 21st October 2006
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