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Friday21st September 2007
(Rpt) Sunday23rd September
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Major General Sir Jeremy Moore
Soldier who has died aged 79.
It was Major General Sir Jeremy Moore who took the Argentine surrender at the end of the Falklands War. He was the commander of Land Forces as the conflict came to an end. On June 14th 1982 he sent a famous telegram to London which read: “The Falkland Islands are once more under the government desired by their inhabitants. God Save the Queen.” It made headlines around the world.
Jeremy Moore came from a military family. He joined the Royal Marines, partly to avoid direct comparisons with his father’s distinguished army service. In 1972, he was appointed commanding officer of 42 Commando with whom he saw active service in Malta, Egypt, Cyprus and Northern Ireland. When the Falklands crisis started, Major General Moore was just about to retire as commanding officer of all Royal Marine commando forces, but on May 1sthe flew to Ascension Island to embark on the QE2 for the sea voyage to the South Atlantic.
Matthew Bannister talks to Major General Nick Vaux who served with Jeremy Moore in Norway, Northern Ireland and the Falklands and to Colonel David Storrie who served under him in 42 Commando Royal Marines.
John Jeremy Moore was born July 5th 1928. He died September 15th 2007.
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Colin McRae
Rally driver who has died aged 39.
Colin McRae was the first Briton to win the world rallying championship in 1995. In winning 25 World Rally Champsionship events, Colin survived many a hair raising crash, reportedly once doing one million pounds worth of damage to Subaru’s cars in one year.
Colin McRae’s father Jimmy was British Rally Champion five times and his brother Alister was also a successful driver. Colin said he was encouraged to drive as soon as his feet could touch the accelerator. He hated school and was always ambitious, as he put it “to race, to be fast and to be world champion.”
Matthew Bannister talks to Colin McRae’s co-driver for nine years Nicky Grist.
Colin McRae was born August 5th 1968. He died September 15th 2007.
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Eva Crane
Bee expert who has died aged 95.
Eva Crane was one of the world’s leading authorities on bees and bee keeping. She travelled widely in pursuit of her obsession and wrote many authoritative and admired books on the subject.
She founded the International Bee Research Association and ran it until her retirement in 1984. But Eva Crane’s life and career could have taken many other directions. At school in Kent in the 1920s she won prizes in many subjects before becoming one of only two women to study maths at King’s College London. She took an Msc in quantum mechanics and a PHD in nuclear physics.
Matthew Bannister talks to her friend and successor as Director of the International Bee Research Association Richard Jones.
Eva Crane was born June 12th 1912. She died September 6th 2007 |
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Dr. John W. Gofman
Medical physicist who has died aged 88.
Dr John Gofman worked on the Manhattan Project which developed the first atomic bomb, but it washis subsequent work on the harmful effects of human exposure to radiation whichled to him becoming known as "the father of the anti-nuclear movement".
In the 1970s, Dr Gofmanfounded the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility and led a number of high profile campaigns against the nuclear power industry. Hewas born in Cleveland Ohio, the son of Russian immigrants to the USA. During his years as a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley he was called upon to produce plutonium for crucial experiments in the Manhattan Project. He then took a medical degree in San Francisco and began to work on the then-unknown links between hardening of the arteries and cholesterol in the blood stream.
Dr Gofmanalso argued radiation was overused in medicine, both for diagnosis and treatment, without a full consideration of the risks.
Matthew Bannister talks to Dr Alex NicholsandEgan O’Connor to discuss John Gofman’s work.
John William Gofman was born September 21st 1918. He died August 15th 2007. |
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Sister Gregory Kirkus
Archivist who has died aged 96.
Sister Gregory Kirkus was a nun for seventy years. A teacher and historian, she served as headmistress of St Mary’s School, Shaftesbury before becoming archivist at Britain’s oldest active convent in York. Sister Gregory was born into an Anglican family in 1910. It was whilst reading history at Newnham College Oxford that she converted to Catholicism. After training as a librarian, she took a job at Hull University but felt a growing vocation to a religious life. She entered the novitiate in 1936.
She spoke toWoman’s Hour last year:
Sister Gregory Kirkus was born November 9th 1910. She died August 30th 2007.
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