Doudou N’Diaye Rose obituary
Senegal’s best known percussionist who played a big part in preserving his country’s cultureDoudou N’Diaye Rose, who has died aged 85, was Senegal’s most famous percussionist, known as the...
View ArticleMalcolm Craddock obituary
Co-founder of the TV production company behind the swashbuckling adventure series SharpeMalcolm Craddock, who has died aged 77, was a co-founder of Picture Palace, the television production company...
View ArticleRupert Hughes obituary
Energetic senior civil servant determined to improve childcare lawWithin the tight world of Whitehall and the much wider world of child welfare, the senior civil servant Rupert Hughes, who has died...
View ArticleJustin Wilson
Former F1 driver who found success in the US in IndyCar racingMost racing drivers are built like jockeys and the cars are shaped around them. At 6ft 4in, Justin Wilson presented designers with a...
View ArticlePeter Brown obituary
My husband, Peter Brown, who has died aged 88, was a West Country journalist whose career took him from reporting village news in the Forest of Dean to covering some of the biggest stories in the...
View ArticleLetter: Jack Gold obituary
Jack Gold sometimes directed TV commercials. I had the pleasure of working with him on one that featured a presenter who had enjoyed a good night out before filming. She arrived looking less than her...
View ArticleSir Bob Hepple obituary
Legal adviser to Nelson Mandela forced to flee apartheid South Africa for Britain in 1963Sir Bob Hepple, freedom fighter and academic, who has died aged 81, fled from apartheid South Africa in 1963 to...
View ArticleRichard Callanan obituary
My friend Richard Callanan, who has died aged 70 after a fall, made important contributions to two great educational endeavours: making TV programmes for the Open University and co-ordinating groups...
View ArticleMohamed Makiya obituary
The Iraqi architect Mohamed Makiya, who has died aged 101, was a master of incorporating traditional styles into modern architecture. His most important work was an extension to the Khulafa Mosque in...
View ArticleBob Potter obituary
My father, Bob Potter, who has died aged 83, devoted most of his adult life to political activism in Britain.He was born in Adelaide, Australia, son of James Potter, a major in the Australian army, and...
View ArticleSir John Cockburn obituary
My father, Sir John Cockburn, 12th Baronet of that Ilk, has died aged 89. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1949, when he was 23. Having no money or family seat to inherit (as the estate went to a...
View ArticlePeter Hall obituary
As a lecturer in tourism at Manchester Metropolitan University, my father, Peter Hall, showed students at the university’s Hollings campus and on field studies in areas as diverse as the Peak District,...
View ArticleLetter: Sir Bob Hepple was unstinting in his support for younger colleagues
I had the good fortune to have been one of Bob Hepple’s labour law doctoral students at Cambridge in the 1970s, a period of great intellectual excitement in this developing field. Bob was a pioneer in...
View ArticleWang Dongxing obituary
Politician who was bodyguard to China’s former leader, Mao ZedongWhen Mao Zedong’s bodyguard, Wang Dongxing, who has died aged 99, joined the plot to arrest Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing, and her associates...
View ArticleEgon Bahr obituary
Key figure in the realisation of Ostpolitik, the policy of rapprochement between the east and west that led to German reunificationIn 1963, Egon Bahr was the press spokesman for Willy Brandt, a...
View ArticleCharles Tomlinson obituary
Poet and translator who bridged the cultural gap between old and new worldsThe poet Charles Tomlinson has died aged 88, at the Gloucestershire cottage where he had lived since 1958. It is significant...
View ArticleMariem Hassan obituary
Singer whose protest songs on behalf of her Sahrawi people in north Africa brought her international recognitionMariem Hassan, who has died of bone cancer aged 57, in a desert refugee camp for the...
View ArticleHamid Gul obituary
Pakistan intelligence chief who championed the Taliban and was known as the ‘jihadi spymaster’Hamid Gul, who has died aged 78, led Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the largest of Pakistan’s...
View ArticleLovetron beckons: legendary dunk artist Darryl Dawkins dies at 58
The nomenclature-obsessed basketball lifer known for his ferocious dunking ability and outsized personality was truly one of a kindThe biggest surprise about Darryl Dawkins’s death on Thursday is that...
View ArticleLetter: How Owen Chadwick inspired a new author
I was the cleaner for Prof Owen Chadwick and his wife, Ruth, at the master’s lodge of Selwyn College, Cambridge, in 1977-78. It was a short but happy time, and I have much to thank them for.Both Owen...
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