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Sidney Lumet, Baruch Blumberg, Roger Nichols, Edith Helm and Ishbel MacAskill.

Fri, 15 Apr 11

Radio 4's obituary¹ programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have recently died. This week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of the prolific² film director Sidney Lumet, whose movies included Twelve Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon and Network. We have tributes from Omar Sharif and Jenny Agutter. The Nobel prize winning scientist Baruch Blumberg, who saved millions of lives by isolating³ the Hepatitis B virus and developing a vaccine⁴. Roger Nichols - the innovative⁵ studio engineer who gave Steely Dan their distinctive⁶ sound. Edith Helm - the first woman ever to be given a kidney transplant - we speak to the donor⁷, her twin sister. And the "honey voiced" Gaelic singer Ishbel MacAskill.