A life well lived: Remembering those we lost in 2022
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The Times
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🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Times has an august history of recording the lives of significant people, and has been doing so in the obituaries pages since the 19th century. Today, we remember some of the people who may not be household names but are no less fascinating.
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Hosts:
- Anna Temkin, Deputy Obituaries Editor, The Times.
- Mariella Frostrup, Times Radio.
Guests:
- Tom Dart, obituaries writer, The Times.
- Shirley Malcom, director of the SEA Change initiative at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Emily Maitlis, broadcaster and journalist.
- Professor Mary Beard, classicist.
Remembering the lives of:
- Colonel Gail Halvorsen, pilot.
- Dr Shirley McBay, mathematician.
- Professor Peter Maitlis, chemist.
- Joyce Reynolds, classicist.
Clips: BBC, Times Radio.
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| 0:30.0 | Music |
| 0:34.0 | Every year, the Times reports on thousands of deaths |
| 0:38.0 | of notable people. |
| 0:40.0 | Some are intensely personal. |
| 0:43.0 | Others have the power to make the world pause in grief. |
| 0:48.0 | 2022 will be remembered for some of those moments. |
| 0:53.0 | The BBC is interrupting its normal programmes |
| 0:56.0 | to bring you an important announcement, |
| 0:59.0 | Buckingham Palace has announced the death of her Majesty, |
| 1:03.0 | Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 1:06.0 | Music |
| 1:12.0 | Alongside her Majesty, |
| 1:14.0 | we lost a host of giants this year |
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