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This week
FridayÌý17th NovemberÌý2006
(rpt) SundayÌý19th November
Matthew Bannister tells the life stories of people who have died recently. This week: Milton Friedman, Ursula Moray Williams, Ferenc Puskas and Desert Orchid.
Milton FriedmanÌý
Economist
Died November 16 2006, aged 94
Born July 31 1912
Matthew Bannister talks to his biographer Dr Lanny Ebenstein, Professor Edmund Phelps, winner of Nobel Prize for Economics and to chairman of the Cato Institute William A Niskanen.
Ursual Moray WilliamsÌý
Children’s Writer
Died October 17 2006, aged 95
Born April 19 1911
Writer Barbara Trapido on Gobbolino the Witch's cat and Matthew Bannister talks to Ursula Moray William’s granddaughter Kate Johns.
Fernec Puskas
Hungarian Footballer
Died November 17 aged 79
Born 2 April 1927
Matthew Bannister talks to Dr Rogan Taylor, director of the Football Industry Group at Liverpool University, who is the biographer of Ferenc Puskas and to the novelist TIbor Fischer.Ìý
Desert Orchid Racehorse
Died 13th November 2006
Born 11 April 1979Ìý
Actor Mark Straker reads Phillip Larkin’s poem At Grass.
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