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  • 20 Jul 2010: Radio producer who helped music's biggest names record their first BBC sessions
  • 20 Jul 2010: Actor famous for her roles in blaxploitation films of the 1970s
  • dutton 20 Jul 2010: Biomedical researcher and wide-ranging author and poet
  • 20 Jul 2010: Other lives: Our mother, who has died of cancer aged 73, was a music teacher at Grey Coat school, Westminster, the Perse girls' school, Cambridge, and Homerton College, Cambridge, as well as being the musical director of Haslingfield choir and orchestra, which she founded in 1971.
  • 20 Jul 2010: Other lives: My friend and mentor, Teshome Gabriel, a leading film theorist, who has died of cardiac arrest aged 70, was an authority in the study of third world and postcolonial cinemas
  • 20 Jul 2010: David Nice writes: A year ago, I phoned to speak to Sir Charles Mackerras (obituary, 16 July) and Lady Mackerras told me candidly that he was receiving treatment for myeloma. So I prepared for the worst; and yet, what a year of vintage Mackerras performances we've had.
  • 19 Jul 2010:

    Experimental German architect who put his stamp on the Munich Olympics

  • 19 Jul 2010:

    Child radio star and the voice of Disney's heroine Cinderella

  • paulomoura 19 Jul 2010:

    Versatile Brazilian musician and composer

  • 19 Jul 2010: Other lives: My father, Arthur Hayward, who has died aged 87, was the first headmaster of the Cavendish school – a school with no rules. The students were told to use their common sense: "If it's stupid, don't do it!"
  • 19 Jul 2010: Other lives: My mother, Marian Fagan, who has died aged 97, was an independent, strong-minded person who campaigned for a better world for the many.
  • 19 Jul 2010:

    Mike Broadbent writes: I first knew Janine Thomason (obituary, 9 July) when she worked as a news organiser in the BBC TV newsroom.

  • 19 Jul 2010: Norman Goodman writes: The mention of Robin Bush's operatic bass voice (obituary, 8 July) took me back more than 50 years to when he was a chorister at Holy Trinity church, in Exmouth, Devon.
  • 19 Jul 2010: Timothy Hornsby writes: Kate Jenkins's admirable obituary of William Plowden (6 July) refers to the time he spent at the University of California at Berkeley as a Harkness fellow.
  • David Fanshawe 18 Jul 2010:

    Charismatic composer best known for his groundbreaking choral work African Sanctus

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Other lives

  • 18 Jul 2010
    Other lives: Given up for dead after the D-Day assault, my father, George Young, survived his wounds and became a revered English teacher in Colchester, Essex.
  • 18 Jul 2010
    Other lives: To describe the life of our son, David Ripley, who has died of leukaemia aged 38, as ordinary, is both a tribute and a misnomer.
  • 16 Jul 2010
    Other lives: He was a Labour party stalwart for 76 years, having joined the Labour League of Youth when he was 15
  • 15 Jul 2010
    Other lives: Former journalist and novelist – and obituaries editor of the Economist
  • 14 Jul 2010
    Other lives: Senior social worker, counsellor and adviser with a particular interest in reproductive medicine
  • 14 Jul 2010
    Other lives: Bassoonist who turned her talents to brass
  • 13 Jul 2010
    Other lives: Former teacher and greatly respected member of the Inner London Education Authority schools inspectorate
  • 12 Jul 2010
    Other lives: Teacher and trade unionist with a fervent belief in the transforming power of further education
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