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Radio 4's weekly obituaries programme |
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FridayÌý19th December 2008
(Rpt) SundayÌý21st December |
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Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien
Former Irish government minister, author and journalist whoÌýhas died agedÌý91
Dr. Conor Cruise O’Brien was a politician, an academic and a journalist who strongly opposed Irish Republicanism.ÌýHe was born in Dublin in 1917 and worked in the Civil Service before joining the United Nations where he was embroiled in the crisis when Katanga tried to leave what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1961.
After holding two academic posts, he was elected to the Irish parliament as a Labour Party candidate in 1969. Given the job of Minister for Posts and Telegraphs he showed his hostility to Sinn Fein and the IRA by enforcing the ban on members of both organisations being interviewed by the media. After losing his seat in parliament in 1977, he left politics and Ireland to become Editor-in-Chief of the Observer newspaper. He published many books, including an acclaimed biography of his hero Edmund Burke, and a work which supported Zionism and the state of Israel. He was also a columnist for the Sunday IndependentÌý and held a number of visiting professorships around the world.
Matthew Bannister talks toÌýthe former Irish Prime Minister DrÌýGarret FitzGerald and to Fintan O’Toole of the Irish TimesÌý.
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Conor Cruise O’Brien was born November 3rd 1917.ÌýHe diedÌýDecember 18thÌý2008. |
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Davey Graham
Folk-blues guitaristÌýwho has died aged 68
Davey GrahamÌýinfluenced many illustrious musicians from traditional folkies to rock players like Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Ray Davies of the Kinks. Davey Graham’s father was an accountant from the Isle of Skye who was also an amateur singer and his mother came from Guyana. Perhaps this background explained Davey’s love of the exotic and his regular travels, picking up musical influences from around the world. He was impossible to categorise, being equally at home playing blues, folk, classical and jazz styles.
Matthew Bannister talks toÌýDavey Graham’s friend and fellow musician Mike Head, to the half brother he only found later in life, Steve Williams, and to the great traditional guitarist and singer Martin Carthy.
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Davey (Davy) Graham wasÌýborn November 26thÌý1940. He died December 15thÌý2008.
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Mark Felt
FBI official who helped to bring down Richard Nixon as the anonymous source 'Deep Throat' has died aged 95
Without Mark Felt, the Watergate scandal might never have been uncovered. He was the anonymous source, codenamed 'Deep Throat', who guided the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein through the complex web of evidence which eventually ended up at the door of President Nixon.
Mark Felt was a senior FBI official who strongly disapproved of the way the Nixon administration was behaving. Woodward and Bernstein said they would never reveal their source until he died, but Felt confirmed his role in the Watergate story in an interview in 2005.
Matthew Bannister talks to our North America Editor Justin Webb.
William Mark Felt, Sr. was born August 17th 1913. He died December 18th 2008. |
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Bettie Page
Model who has diedÌýaged 85
Bettie Page was a secretary who became an iconic pin up in nineteen fifties America. The girl with the jet black bangs and the perfect figure paved the way for a new and more liberal era of sexuality, appearingÌýin early Playboy centrefolds. But after a career that lasted less than ten years, she suddenly disappeared from view, adding to her mystique. She was unaware that her image had become a cult reproduced on T shirts, comic books, lighters and playing cards.
Bunny Yeager was one of the photographers who worked with Bettie Page. A particularly memorable photo shoot took place in a Florida wildlife park where Betty posed with and without animal print swimwear.Ìý
Last WordÌýtalks toÌý Bunny Yeager who was one of the photographers who worked with Betty Page and to her agent Mark Roesler.Ìý
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Bettie PageÌýwas born April 22nd 1923. She died December 11th 2008.
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