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This week
Friday 17th November 2006 (rpt) Sunday 19th November
Matthew Bannister tells the life stories of people who have died recently. This week: Milton Friedman, Ursula Moray Williams, Ferenc Puskas and Desert Orchid.
Milton Friedman Economist Died November 16 2006, aged 94 Born July 31 1912
Matthew Bannister talks to his biographer Dr Lanny Ebenstein, Professor Edmund Phelps, winner of Nobel Prize for Economics and to chairman of the Cato Institute William A Niskanen.
Ursual Moray Williams Children’s Writer Died October 17 2006, aged 95 Born April 19 1911
Writer Barbara Trapido on Gobbolino the Witch's cat and Matthew Bannister talks to Ursula Moray William’s granddaughter Kate Johns.
Fernec Puskas Hungarian Footballer Died November 17 aged 79 Born 2 April 1927
Matthew Bannister talks to Dr Rogan Taylor, director of the Football Industry Group at Liverpool University, who is the biographer of Ferenc Puskas and to the novelist TIbor Fischer.
Desert Orchid Racehorse Died 13th November 2006 Born 11 April 1979
Actor Mark Straker reads Phillip Larkin’s poem At Grass.
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