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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

    Audrey Adams, Nicola Trahan, Edward Bond, Eric Carmen

    Audrey Adams, Nicola Trahan, Edward Bond, Eric Carmen

    Matthew Bannister on
    Audrey Adams who became a tireless campaigner for the rights of black people after her son was stabbed to death in a racist attack.
    Nicola Trahan, who joined the French Resistance as a teenager and was later awarded the Croix de Guerre.
    Edward Bond, the controversial playwright who played a key role in the abolition of censorship in British theatre.
    The singer and songwriter Eric Carmen whose biggest hit “All By Myself” was based on a Rachmaninov piano concerto.
    Interviewee: Lord Simon Woolley
    Interviewee: Reverend Eleanor Rance
    Interviewee: Simon Callow and Sean Holmes
    Interviewee: Debbie Wiseman
    Producer: Ed Prendeville
    Archive used:
    French Wartime Service: Musical Items, Sound Archive, BBC; D-Day Announcement - Communique No. 1, Sound Archive, BBC; The Reverend Al Sharpton, Kilroy BBC 1, BBC; Audrey Adams interviewed by C4 news in 2021, C4 News, YouTube upload, 19/03/2021; Edward Bond interview - TX Date: 12.10.2011; Eric Carmen - Never Gonna fall in love again; Eric Carmen - All by myself; The Raspberries – Go all the way

    • 27 分鐘
    Iris Apfel, Colin Murray Parkes, Baroness Henig, Jim Lawrence

    Iris Apfel, Colin Murray Parkes, Baroness Henig, Jim Lawrence

    Matthew Bannister on
    Iris Apfel the colourful fashion and interior designer whose own dress sense made an impact until her death aged 102.
    Dr Colin Murray Parkes, the psychiatrist once described as “the David Attenborough of the bereavement world.”
    Baroness Henig, the deputy House of Lords Speaker who was a historian and expert on the security industry.
    Jim Lawrence who became skipper of a Thames sailing barge aged eighteen and went on to set up a successful sail making business in Essex.
    Interviewee: Dame Zandra Rhodes
    Interviewee: Laura Higginson
    Interviewee: Debbie Kerslake
    Interviewee: David Henig
    Interviewee: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
    Interviewee: Simon Devonshire KC
    Producer: Catherine Powell
    Archive used:
    Iris Apfel on BBC Radio 4 “Woman's Hour” 31/07/2015; Colin Murray Parkes on BBC Radio 4 “Word of Mouth - The Language of Bereavement and Grief” 14/01/23; BBC Wales “Aberfan 2 days after the disaster” 24/10/1966; BBC News 20/09/2001; St Thomas Church Memorial Service, BBC New Special, BBC, 20/09/2001; Colin Murray Parkes courtesy: Cruse Bereavement Support, YouTube 23/09/2019; Baroness Henig on Woman's Hour - 20/10/2011; House of Lords 08/11/23; Parliamentlive.tv. BBC Parliament “Levelling up and Regeneration” 6/9/24; Jim Lawrence: Jim Lawrence singing, “The Singing Bargee”, Paul Desmond, YouTube 14/11/2012; Jim Lawrence Recalls His Early Days, Paul Desmond, YouTube uploaded 14 Nov 2012

    • 27 分鐘
    Nicholas Dimbleby, Lord Patrick Cormack, Wendy Mitchell, Eleanor Fazan

    Nicholas Dimbleby, Lord Patrick Cormack, Wendy Mitchell, Eleanor Fazan

    John Wilson on the celebrated sculptor Nicholas Dimbleby, responsible for numerous well known commissions around the country.
    Lord Patrick Cormack the politician, historian and prolific author.
    Wendy Mitchell, the author and blogger who was diagnosed with young onset dementia and worked tirelessly to help improve the understanding of the condition.
    Eleanor Fazan, the theatre director, choreographer and actor. Her career spanned almost 70 years and saw her working with some of the biggest names in the business.
    Archive Details
    Archive used:. “Wogan” BBC 1 10/12/1986. BBC Midlands Today News 13/7/2011. BBC News West 09/09/1999.
    “The Bright Side of Life” BBC Radio 4 21/11/2023 & 28/11/2023
    Parliamentlive.tv 21/02/23 & 05/09/19.
    The Michael Ball Show, BBC Radio 2, BBC, 16/01/2022
    Wendy Mitchell reads from “Somebody I used to know”. Bloomsbury publishing, uploaded to Youtube 29 Jan 2018.
    "The Complete Beyond The Fringe" Label - Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company. Oh! It's a Lovely War, Title Oh! It's a Lovely War Performer - Courtland and Jeffries Album - Oh! It's A Lovely War (Volume 1) Label - CD41 Recordings. Stage to Screen BBC

    • 27 分鐘
    Alexei Navalny, Dr Brooke Ellison, Gertrude Wright, Steve Brown

    Alexei Navalny, Dr Brooke Ellison, Gertrude Wright, Steve Brown

    John Wilson on
    Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner and leading opponent of President Vladimir Putin, who has died in a Russian state prison.
    Dr Brooke Ellison, an American academic and disabilities rights advocate who drew on her own experience of living with quadriplegia.
    Gertrude Wright, who survived the bombing of her German home city during World War Two and went on to become a translator for Field Marshall Montgomery.
    And Steve Brown, the music composer who worked on comedy productions such as Alan Partridge, Spitting Image, Dead Ringers and many more productions. Steve Coogan and Harry Hill pay tribute.
    Interviewee: Nikolai Petrov
    Interviewee: Jean Ellison
    Interviewee: Professor Stephen Post
    Interviewee: James Holland
    Interviewee: Steve Coogan
    Interviewee: Harry Hill
    Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
    Archive used:
    Alexei Navalny, Profile, BBC Radio 4, 27/10/2012; BBC News, 05/12/2011; Alexei Navalny, HardTalk, BBC News, 19/01/2017; Navalny, Cable Network News, Dogwool, BBC Storyville, Director: Daniel Roher; 2022; Brooke Ellison, Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, 21/09/2010; Brooke Ellison, Tedx Talks, YouTube uploaded 14/07/2015; Brooke Ellison interview, Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education, YouTube upload 28/09/2023; Brooke Ellison Harvard Commencement Speech, June 2000; Magdeburg Blitzed, Pathe Gazettes/Pathe, 1944; Steve Brown, The Mitch Benn Music Show, BBC Radio 4 Extra, 12/04/2009 (original TX 2006); Steve Brown/Glen Ponder, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, BBC Two, 05/08/2002; Spend, Spend Spend promo, Barbara Dickson/Steve Brown/Justin Green, Chariot Records, Released 06/05/2016; I Can't Sing! The X Factor Musical, YouTube 04/11/2013; Steve Brown singing on Newsnight, BBC TWO, 20/03/1992

    • 27 分鐘
    Steve Wright, Baroness Flather, Alan Mills, Angela Peberdy

    Steve Wright, Baroness Flather, Alan Mills, Angela Peberdy

    Matthew Bannister on
    The much-loved Radio 1 and 2 DJ Steve Wright. We have a tribute from his former colleague Simon Mayo.
    Baroness Flather, who was the first Asian woman to sit in the House of Lords.
    Alan Mills, the Wimbledon tennis referee who had to deal with tantrums on court.
    Angela Peberdy, the train announcer known as “the golden voice of British Rail”.
    Producer: Ed Prendeville
    Archive Used
    The Six o’clock News, BBC 1, 25/06/1985; Network East: Big Talk, Asia 2 BBC 2, 14/11/1998; Daily Politics, BBC2, 17/01/2012; Three Bridges - Platform 4 for the Victoria train - 27/01/1989; Lewisham - Platform 4 for the Bexleheath line service to Dartford - 26/07/1990; Angela Peberdy On London Plus, 27/11/1986; Newsnight, BBC Two, 17/06/1983; BBC Breakfast Time, BBC 1, 19/06/1986; Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs Extra, BBC Radio 2, 08/02/24; Steve Writght in the Afternoon, BBC Radio 2, 09/03/2010; Steve Wright in the Afternoon, BBC Radio 2, 22/02/2008; Steve Wright in the Afternoon, BBC Radio 2, 28/09/22; Steve Wright in the Afternoon, BBC Radio 2, 27/09/22; Steve Wright, BBC Radio 1, 10/01/94; Steve Wright, BBC Radio 1, 24/12/93; Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2, 29/09/22; Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2, 25/09/22; Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2, 14/09/22; Steve Wright - Sunday Love Songs, BBC Radio 1, 04/02/2010; Steve Wright in the Afternoon, BBC Radio 2, 29/09/2022; Steve Wright, BBC Radio 1, 01/01/1988

    • 27 分鐘
    Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue, Ian Lavender, Robie Harris, Barry John

    Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue, Ian Lavender, Robie Harris, Barry John

    Matthew Bannister on
    Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue who overcame a traumatic childhood to become one of Australia’s leading campaigners for the rights of indigenous people.
    Ian Lavender, the actor best known for playing Private Pike in Dad’s Army.
    Robie Harris, whose book explaining sex to children made her one of America’s most banned authors.
    Barry John, the Welsh and British and Irish Lions fly-half known simply as “The King”.
    Interviewee: Stuart Rintoul
    Interviewee: Paul Abbandonato
    Interviewee: Hilary Gagan
    Interviewee: Rick Wakeman
    Interviewee: Michael Emberley
    Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
    Archive used:
    Dr O’Donoghue speaking at the Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference 2016, Lowitja Institute International, YouTube upload 07/09/2023; Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue, Australian Biography Series 3, Film Australia Collection 1994, Director & Producer Frank Heimans, YouTube upload 01/06/2021; Native Title Act News Report, BBC News, BBC One, 22/12/1993 Barry John: The King, BBC One Wales, 08/032013; Barry John, Scotland v Wales, Five Nations, BBC One, 1971; Barry John, Cardiff v Wales, BBC One Wales, 1969; Barry John playing for Lions v New Zealand, BBC One Wales, 22/03/2013; Barry John, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 12/12/1978; Robie Harris On Kids' Right To Read, National Coalition Against Censorship, YouTube, 01/02/2014; Robie Harris on KidLit TV, 07/11/2014; Ian Lavender, Celebrity MasterMind, BBC One, 01/01/2009; , Dad's Army: Series 5, Asleep in the Deep, BBC One, 04/01/1977; Dads Army, Battle of the Giants!, BBC One, 26/08/1972; Dads Army, The Deadly Attachment, 31/10/1973; Ian Lavender interview, Today, BBC Radio 4, 14/11/2022; Ian Lavender interview, 5’s Company, 1997, Freemantle, YouTube upload 24/08/2018

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