英语听力精选进阶版 14604（在线收听）

Donny George, Owsley Stanley, Harold Massingham, Bob Greaves and Hugh Martin.

Fri, 18 Mar 11

Duration:

28 mins 

Available:

15 days remaining 

Radio 4's obituary programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have recently died. This week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of Dr. Donny George, the archaeologist who tried to stop looters ransacking the Iraqi national museum after the invasion of 2003. Owsley Stanley who supplied more than one million tablets of LSD to San Francisco hippies and designed the Grateful Dead's sound system. Yorkshire poet Harold Massingham - Ian Macmillan pays tribute. Local TV news presenter Bob Greaves who was immortalised when an elephant got a little too intimate with him on screen. And Hugh Martin, composer of classic songs, including "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".