Obituaries
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Maggie Jones: Actress best known for her role as the harridan Blanche Hunt in 'Coronation Street'
Maggie Jones, who has died at the age of 75, was for a decade the foremost British battleaxe of the television soap world as Coronation Street's acid-tongued Blanche Hunt.
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Liam Clancy: Folk singer who helped popularise Irish traditional music in the United States and around the world
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
On 12 March 1961, a little-known quartet of Irish folk musicians based in New York got the biggest break of their lives. They had managed to get invited on to The Ed Sullivan Show, a TV variety programme then reaching an estimated 80 million viewers across the US. Although originally scheduled to perform just two songs, they were asked to fill in for a quarter of an hour after the last-minute cancellation of the headline act. With their trademark Aran sweaters, rousing country ballads and songs of drinking and rebellion sung in lusty brogues, they became stars overnight. "It was better than a blessing from the Pope," they would later famously quip of their show-stealing appearance.
Lives Remembered: Eric Dehn
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Eric Harold Dehn, my former colleague at Bristol Grammar School, was a remarkable man, of short stature but huge personality, who was born in 1916 and spent his working life between 1939 and 1976, apart from the years of the Second World War, as a French teacher at Bristol Grammar School. His teaching methods were idiosyncratic, conducting the whole of an 11-year-old's first lesson entirely in French and giving each boy a French name based on his surname, for example, but he gave the same care and attention to the pupil having trouble with French verbs as he did to the potential Open Scholar.
General Günther Rall: Luftwaffe fighter ace who helped create the modern German airforce
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Günther Rall, a seasoned German fighter ace who was still only 23 years old, was told he would not walk again, yet he defied medical opinion to become one of the leading pilots of the Second World War and made an important contribution to developing the post-war German air force.
Porfessor Pat Thompson: Historian whose influence came through teaching rather than his writing
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
For four decades tutor at Wadham College, alternately acerbic and avuncular, iconoclastic and inspiring, and always generous with his time, A.F. '("Pat"') Thompson was a major force in modern British history teaching and research at Oxford.
Raj Singh Dungarpur: Controversial cricket administrator who championed the young Tendulkar
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Raj Singh Dungarpur was the most influential and controversial president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). This prince of the erstwhile state of Dungarpur had the same reputation when he was the chairman of national selectors, and manager of the Indian team on the tours of England in 1982 and 1986 and Pakistan in 1984-85 and 2005-06: he had a special talent to make friends and foes.
Greg Ladanyi: Grammy-winning record producer noted for his work with Jackson Browne and Toto
Monday, 7 December 2009
The American recording engineer and producer Greg Ladanyi helped make some of the biggest records of the Seventies and Eighties, by such California-based acts as Jackson Browne, Don Henley and Toto, the group of top Los Angeles session players turned performers.
Dick Berg: Writer and producer who helped pioneer TV movies and mini-series
Monday, 7 December 2009
The writer and producer Dick Berg played an important part in the evolution of television entertainment in the United States. He was one of those who inaugurated the television movie and mini-series, and he created the cult series Johnny Staccato, which captured the mood of the beat generation in its noirish tales that blended crime-solving with superior jazz performances.
Eric Wilkes: Physician whose 1980 report into the care of the terminally ill transformed social policy
Monday, 7 December 2009
Eric Wilkes, one of the country's most eminent experts in palliative care, was a physician whose interests and impact were wide-ranging. His 1980 report into the care of the terminally ill had a significant effect on social policy, and was later praised for its foresight.
Vjekoslav Sutej: Croatian conductor
Monday, 7 December 2009
The Croatian conductor Vjekoslav Sutej, who died on 2 December aged 58, led orchestras in the United States, Italy and Spain and worked with Placido Domingo and Montserrat Caballe. He had led the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra since 2003.
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