All she wrote: our obituaries editor reflects on 2021
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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From Prince Philip to Desmond Tutu, from an anti-racism campaigner and member of the Auschwitz Girls’ Orchestra to a war surgeon focused on civilians to an impoverished Ethiopian whose school for the poor educated 120,000 students: our obituaries editor reflects on the famed and the lesser-known figures who died in 2021.
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| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:09.1 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:11.9 | Most weekdays, |
| 1:21.6 | we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Today, though, we'll be looking back at some notable lives, the inspired and inspiring figures who died this year. It's very difficult to characterize this year over last year. |
| 1:31.3 | Anne Rowe is the Economist's obituaries editor. |
| 1:34.5 | This year hasn't really had any pattern or theme to it. |
| 1:37.9 | Every so often, as usually happens, a great figure dies. |
| 1:42.5 | And then much of the time you find you're looking round for people |
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