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David Spenser obituary
Child radio star of the 1940s and 50s best remembered for playing Richmal Crompton's Just WilliamDavid Spenser, who has died aged 79, was the predominant child radio star of the 1940s and 50s and will...
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Letter: Anna Wing was nothing like the cantankerous matriarch Lou Beale
For years, Anna Wing was my nextdoor neighbour, just two streets from Broadcasting House. Right up until she was 95, I'd see her in all weathers waiting early on her steps for a car to take her to a...
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Terry Conway obituary
My friend Terry Conway, who has died of mesothelioma aged 69, was an exceptional singer and songwriter. Terry worked for 30 years as a council roadman and many of his songs are based on that...
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Pauline Swatridge obituary
Our beloved granddaughter, Pauline Goncalves Ferreira Swatridge, has taken her own life at the age of 15. In her early adolescence, what at first had seemed to be typical teenage girl problems...
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Sheila Whitaker obituary
Former head of programming at the National Film Theatre who brought a wider audience to the London film festivalSheila Whitaker, who has died aged 77 after suffering from motor neurone disease, was an...
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Mike O'Brien obituary
My friend Mike O'Brien has died aged 66 from bone cancer. I will miss his insights into cultural excellence, his radical political musings and his philosophising on life's vicissitudes. I'll also miss...
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John Amis obituary
Broadcaster, critic and team-member on the long-running BBC radio quiz My MusicThe broadcaster and music critic John Amis, who has died aged 91, became a national figure thanks to the long-running BBC...
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George Mitchell obituary
Engineer who developed fracking, the revolutionary and controversial technique for extracting oil and gasGeorge Mitchell, who has died aged 94, was one of the elite corps of engineers whose ideas,...
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Kate Crutchley obituary
Our friend Kate Crutchley, who has died of cancer aged 69, was an actor, director and under-acknowledged pioneer in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and women's theatre.She was born in...
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Colin Bourn obituary
My partner Colin Bourn, who has died aged 75, was a pioneer of university distance learning and an early innovator in the field of employment law.Colin was born in Enfield, north London, and studied...
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Anne Durrant obituary
My mother, Anne Durrant, who has died aged 93, left Northern Ireland during the second world war to train as a nurse at Dudley Road hospital in Birmingham. The antipathy towards her Irish accent...
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Jim Andrews obituary
In 1970 my friend and colleague Jim Andrews, who has died aged 81, became the first headteacher at what is now Alsager school. He inherited a modestly achieving secondary modern as it turned...
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Ethel Turner obituary
When I first met my wife, Ethel Turner, who has died aged 83, she invited me to her 21st birthday party at Crewe Training College. She then promptly forgot about me until a friend said: "Didn't you ask...
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Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward obituary
Commander of the Royal Navy taskforce that retook the Falkland Islands after the Argentinian invasion in 1982Admiral Sir John Woodward, known as "Sandy", who has died aged 81, led the naval...
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Letter: Mick Farren and an assortment of Deviants
Over the years, in Britain, the US and Japan, Mick Farren co-opted many different musicians into his bands, for both recording and performing live, but they always went under the name of the Deviants....
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Letter: Mel Smith's brilliant Iolanthe
I was at Oxford with Mel Smith in the early 1970s. I got to know him when he directed the Gilbert and Sullivan Society production of Iolanthe, in which I sang Lord Mountararat. He was an unlikely but...
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Ruth Ling obituary
My sister, Ruth Ling, who has died suddenly from a pulmonary embolism, aged 60, was a Labour councillor for Tulse Hill in Lambeth, south London. She had previously served as councillor for Clapham...
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Morlais Owens obituary
My father, Morlais Owens, former chief scientist of Dwr Cymru (Welsh Water) and chairman of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, has died aged 81.Morlais was born in Rhymney, Monmouthshire,...
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Bengt Hallberg obituary
Swedish jazz musician and composer whose reputation was sealed by a single recording with Stan Getz in 1951Bengt Hallberg, the Swedish jazz pianist, composer and arranger, who has died aged 80, won an...
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George Duke obituary
Jazz-funk keyboard star of the 70s who became a hit-making music producerGeorge Duke, who has died aged 67, was one of the brightest stars in the 1970s jazz-funk firmament. In a career that lasted four...
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