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Friday2nd February 2007
(Rpt) Sunday4th February |
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Paul Channon, Lord Kelvedon
Politician who has died aged 71.
Paul Channon was born into a political family. His father was the MP and political diarist Sir Henry “Chips” Channon and his mother was a member of the Guinness family. Paul Channon represented the constituency of Southend West which five members of the Guinness family had represented before him. He did this from 1959 to 1997.
During this time he held nine Conservative ministerial posts including Secretary of State for Trade and for Transport. The latter coincided with the fire at King's Cross underground station in 1987, the 1988 Clapham rail crash and the Lockerbie disaster. He also suffered a personal tragedy when, in 1986, his elder daughter, Olivia, died of a drugs and drink overdose while celebrating the end of her final exams at Christ Church, Oxford. Margaret Thatcher dropped Channon from her government in 1989 and he became a life peer, taking the title Lord Kelvedon from the name of the family house in Essex in 1997.
Matthew Bannister talks to Sir Teddy Taylor who was the MP for the next door constituency, Lord Baker and political journalist Julia Langdon.
Henry Paul Guinness Channon, Lord Kelvedon was born October 9th 1935. He died January 27th 2007. |
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Margery Ruth Crisp
Cryptic crossword setterwho has diedaged 89.
Few people can claim the distinction of having compiled crosswords for all five national broadsheet newspapers. Ruth Crisp was a member of that select band. From 1954 until her death she contributed thousands of puzzles and claimed she never used the same clue twice.
Matthew Bannister talks to Hugh Stephenson, editor of the crossword at the Guardian where Ruth worked for nearly fifty years.
Margery Ruth Crisp was born January 1st 1918. Shedied January 22nd 2007. |
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Glen Tetley
Choreographer who has died aged 80.
When the American choreographer Glen Tetley first worked at the Royal Ballet in 1970, he found the classically trained dancers hostile, believing that his enthusiasm for modern dance and electronic music was, as he put it, “ a modern intrusion into their sacred precincts.” But Tetley was creating a revolution in ballet, which had a major influence throughout the world. He revitalised the creative reputation of the Ballet Rambert and created acclaimed work for many leading dancers and companies, including two pieces for the Royal Ballet’s Darcey Bussell.
Matthew Bannister talks to the dance critic of the Daily Telegraph Ismene Brown and to Darcey Bussell.
Glen Tetley was born February 3rd 1926. He died January 26th 2007. |
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Mary Low
Political activist, poet and teacher who has died aged 94.
For a few months between July 1936 and May 1937, the catalan capital Barcelona was gripped by revolutionary fervour. This extraordinary period in the city’s history was vividly described in a book co-written by the poet, linguist and classics teacher Mary Low . Reviewing the Red Spanish Notebook, George Orwell wrote that it “shows you what human beings are like when they are trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine”.
To mark Mary Low’s death Emma Cleasby reads an extract from the Red Spanish Notebook.
Mary Low was born May 14th 1912. She died January9th 2007. |
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Professor Roland Levinsky
Immunologist and administrator who has died aged 63.
Professor Roland Levinsky was a pioneer in the treatment of children with immunodeficiency diseases. He performed the first successful bone marrow transplants in childrenin 1979 and was one of the first scientists in Britain to secure funding for gene therapy trials.
Roland Levinsky was born in South Africa, son of a Jewish Communist who had fled from Poland to escape the Nazis. When Roland’s father died, his English mother brought him back to London where he was educated in Camden and at University College. It was Professor Levinsky who developed the Institute for Child health into one of the world’s leading children’s research organisations and went on to hold senior posts at University College London before becoming Vice Chancellor of Plymouth University in 2002. He died after being hit by a power cable whilst walking his dog in a storm.
Matthew Bannister talks to Professor Christine McKinnon who worked with Roland Levinsky for more than twenty years.
Roland Jacob Levinsky was born October 16th 1943. He died January 1st 2007.
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