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Friday5th January 2007
(Rpt) Sunday 7th January |
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Theodor "Teddy" Kollek
Jerusalem mayor who has died aged 95.
Born in 1911in Austria-Hungary, his real name was Theodor after Zionist pioneer Theodor Herzl. At 24, three years before the Nazis seized power in Austria, he and his family emigrated to Palestine, which was then still under British mandate. During the war he helped rescue Jews from the Nazi concentration camps, persuading Adolf Eichmann to allow three thousand Jews to go to Britain. All his life he worked hard for the Zionist cause and was a close ally of former prime minister David Ben Gurion. But above all he will be remembered for his work as mayor, having been dubbed “The Greatest Builder of Jerusalem since Herod.”
Last Word hears from Jeremy Bowen -the ѿý’s Middle East Editor.
Theodor 'Teddy' Kollek was born May 27th 1911. He has died January 2nd 2007.
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Sydney Wooderson
World Record holding athlete who has died aged 92.
Sydney Wooderson was a small, skinny man who wore horn-rimmed glasses and commuted into London to his job as a solicitor’s clerk. But when dressed in his Blackheath Harriers running shorts and vest he was transformed into the “Mighty Atom”. He won European titles before and after the war and set world records for the mile, 800 metres and 880 yards.
Jane Little talks to Roger Bannister who saw Sydney Wooderson race at that packed White City Stadium in 1945. John Rodda, Richard Coles, Doug Wilson and Alan Brent attended Sydney’s funeral.
Sydney Charles Wooderson was born August 30th 1914. He died December 21st 2006.
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John Heath-Stubbs OBE
Poet and critic who has died aged 88.
John Heath-Stubbs won the Queen’s Medal for Poetry andwas feted by T.S. Eliot for his brilliant poetic mind. Part of the Oxford generation which included Philip Larkin - the two men hada bitter feud over the importance or otherwise of mythology.
John Heath-Stubbs was born with a congenital eye problem which left him blind in later life. But he saw his blindness as an asset, saying it “tends to stimulate the imagination.”
Jane Little talks to Soho drinking buddy,Oliver Bernard andpoetDanny Abse, with an extract of John Heath-Stubbs reading his poem “In Every Sense of the Word”.
John heath-Stubbs was born on July 9th 1918. He died on December 26th 2006. |
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Philippa Pearce
Children’s author who has died aged 86.
Phillippa Pearce, was born in a Cambridgeshire village and brought up in a Mill House. It was her father’s sale of this beloved home with its walled garden that inspired her book ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’. In all she produced more than 30 books, including ‘Mrs Cockle's Cat’, ‘A Dog So Small’, ‘Amy's Three Best Things’, ‘The Little Gentleman’ and collections of ghostly tales.
Last word plays an extract from ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ and hears Philippa talking to radio 4’s Woman’s Hour about why she wrote the book.
Ann Philippa Pearce wasborn January 23rd 1920. Shedied December 22nd 2006.
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Scobie Breasley
Legendary jockey who has died aged 92.
He was born Arthur Edward Breasley but everyone knew him as Scobie.An Australian, he came to Britain in 1950, to become champion jockey four times and was renowned for his arch rivalry with Lester Pigott.
Jane Little talks to racing commentator Peter O’Sullevan, who was a close friend of Scobie Breasley and Willie Carson who raced against him.
Arthur Edward 'Scobie' Breasley was born May 14th 1914. He died December 21st 2006.
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