英语听力精选进阶版 14622

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Burhanuddin Rabbani, Kurt Sanderling, Arthur Evans, Walter Bonatti and Wade¹ Mainer

Fri, 23 Sep 11

Radio 4's obituary² programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have recently died. This week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of the former Afghan president Burhannudin Rabbani, assassinated³ as he was leading attempts to start peace talks with the Taliban. The conductor Kurt Sanderling, who fled from the Nazis⁴ to the Soviet⁵ Union and was renowned⁶ for his interpretations⁷ of Shostakovitch. The gay rights activist⁸ Arthur Evans who led non violent protests against discrimination in 1970s New York. The Italian mountaineer Walter Bonatti, who was falsely accused of trying to sabotage⁹ the first successful ascent¹⁰ of the world's second highest mountain, K2 And the banjo player Wade Mainer who was 104 when he died - a last surviving link to the heyday¹¹ of hillbilly music on 1930s American radio.