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Dr Wylie Vale, Lady Runcie, Barry Reckord, Reginald Hill and Israel Baker

Fri, 20 Jan 12

Radio 4's obituary programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have recently died. This week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of the endocrinologist Dr Wylie Vale who discovered the hormone that governs our response to stress. The unconventional wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lady Runcie. The crime novelist Reginald Hill, best known for creating Dalziel and Pascoe. The pioneering black playwright Barry Reckord. And the violinist Israel Baker who played the searing music for the shower scene in Psycho.