28 min

Oliver Knussen CBE, Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE, Sam Chisholm, Steve Ditko, Anna Sándor de Kénos Last Word

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Pictured: Oliver Knussen
Julian Worricker on:
British composer and conductor, Oliver Knussen, described as a towering figure in contemporary music....
Barbara Harrell-Bond, who founded and then directed the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University....
The media executive, Sam Chisholm, who drove the development of multi-channel television in Britain....
Steve Ditko, the American artist and writer best known as co-creator of the Marvel Comics superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange...
and the last Transylvanian aristocrat to have lived through the communist purges, Anna Sandor de Kenos.
Archive clips from: Jonathan Ross in Search of Steve Ditko, BBC Four, 16/09/07; Music Matters, Radio 3, 09/07/18; Horizon: Exodus, BBC Two, 06/03/95; Breakfast Time, BBC One, 05/01/89.

Pictured: Oliver Knussen
Julian Worricker on:
British composer and conductor, Oliver Knussen, described as a towering figure in contemporary music....
Barbara Harrell-Bond, who founded and then directed the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University....
The media executive, Sam Chisholm, who drove the development of multi-channel television in Britain....
Steve Ditko, the American artist and writer best known as co-creator of the Marvel Comics superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange...
and the last Transylvanian aristocrat to have lived through the communist purges, Anna Sandor de Kenos.
Archive clips from: Jonathan Ross in Search of Steve Ditko, BBC Four, 16/09/07; Music Matters, Radio 3, 09/07/18; Horizon: Exodus, BBC Two, 06/03/95; Breakfast Time, BBC One, 05/01/89.

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