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Obituary series with Julian Worricker, remembering politician Tony Benn, actor James Ellis, oceanographer Dr Peter Rona, pianist Marion Thorpe and union leader Bob Crow. Show more
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Julian Worricker on TV presenter John Noakes; Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega; dancer Pat Stewart; navigator Wing Commander Rex Sanders; rock musician Gregg Allman. Show more
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Remembering author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, actress Edna Dore, writer and cultural historian Richard Hoggart, Italian magistrate Gerardo D'Ambrosio and singer John Shirley-Quirk. Show more
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Julian Worricker talks about confectioner Michele Ferrero, engineer Lady Platt of Writtle, composer John McCabe, actor Louis Jourdan and pianist Anne Naysmith. Show more
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Julian Worricker talks about politician Geoffrey Howe, journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts, farmer and conservationist Joe Henson, TV presenter Hugh Scully and composer Alexander Faris. Show more
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Julian Worricker on right-to-die campaigner Debbie Purdy, actor David Ryall, entomologist Willy Burgdorfer, fencer Dame Mary Glen Haig and music pioneer and producer Graeme Goodall. Show more
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Julian Worricker on banker and businessman Sir Peter Burt; architectural archivist Jill Lever; rose grower John Mattock; film director Peter Duffell; folk musician Tom Paley. Show more
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Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died. Ingvar Kamprad, Elizabeth Hawley, Robert Mann, Jon Castle and Dorothy Malone. Show more
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Julian Worricker on actor John Mahoney, farmer Hannah Hauxwell, chemist Ken Seddon, fundraiser Sir John Cotterell and feminist icon Naomi Parker Fraley. Show more
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Julian Worricker on UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, ceramicist Janice Tchalenko, botanist Hugh Synge, harpist Helen MacLeod and schoolteacher Hettie Williams. Show more
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Julian Worricker on dancer and choreographer Lindsay Kemp, publisher John Calder, sailor Hilary Lister, arts academic John Calcutt and playwright Neil Simon. Show more
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Julian Worricker on ecologist Charles Gimingham, lawyer Felicia Langer, doctor & campaigner Julian Tudor Hart, art scholar & editor Anne Olivier Bell, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer. Show more
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Julian Worricker on columnist Masha Leon, actor Tim Pigott-Smith, director Christopher Morahan, playwright Parv Bancil, campaigner Marthe Gosteli and broadcaster Brian Matthew. Show more
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Julian Worricker on Helmut Kohl, chancellor of Germany; Anita Pallenberg, muse to the Rolling Stones; scientist Brian Bellhouse; arts pioneer Naseem Khan; TV presenter Brian Cant. Show more
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Julian Worricker on journalist Lillian Ross, Iraqi president in the 2000s Jalal Talabani, boxer Terry Downes, seamstress Sybil Flory and musician and inventor Hedley Jones. Show more
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Obituaries. Julian Worricker on Cynthia Lennon, first wife of John; barrister Anthony Scrivener; the man behind the Booker prize, Martyn Goff; and folk guitarist John Renbourn. Show more
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Julian Worricker on recording engineer Eric Tomlinson, campaigner Elsie Tu, author Peter Dickinson, businesswoman Lillian Vernon, musician and Motorhead frontman Lemmy. Show more
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Julian Worricker on nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, musician Paul Robertson, psychoanalyst Elizabeth Spillius, public servant Bob Kiley, newspaper editor Tony Chater. Show more
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Julian Worricker on writer John Berger, actors Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, surgeon Henry Heimlich, linguist Patsy Crampton, journalist Brian Widlake, singer George Michael. Show more
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Julian Worricker on Labour MP Gerald Kaufman; illustrator Dick Bruna; Cardinal Desmond Connell, former Archbishop of Dublin; mayor of Valencia, Rita Barbera; writer Frank Delaney. Show more
