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Ahead of the publication of his memoir, the broadcaster discusses his health, marriage, and why he’s incensed by Ofcom - and Nadine Dorries

Piers Plowright and Poh Sim on Hampstead Heath - Credit: Antoinette Eugster Piers Plowright was the "most amazing listener", a lover of music, books and art, and most of all the sort of man who would march a gaggle of sleepy children up Parliament Hill in order to give them a precious memory or two. The BBC radio producer died aged 83 in July, and he is remembered by his wife Poh Sim, family and friends as a figure like no other.  Piers Plowright, one of Hampsteads most distinctive characters...

Cate Haste, writer and TV producer whose projects explored among other subjects the role of women in the 20th century – obituary The second wife of the eminent broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, she had many friends and concentrated on building up a successful career of her own Cate Haste: held in great affection by friends and colleagues Credit: Chris Barham/Daily Mail/Shutterstock Cate Haste, who has died aged 75, was an acclaimed author, biographer, historian and documentary film maker – and the...

Last modified on Mon 10 May 2021 06.56 EDT As historian, biographer and documentary film-maker, Cate Haste, who has died aged 75 of lung cancer, explored remarkable lives and how people relate to each other, both historically and personally. For Jeremy Isaacs’s 24-part series Cold War (1998) for BBC Two/CNN, covering the period from 1945 to 1991, she made five episodes. They told of how fear was mobilised both in the west and in eastern Europe, life behind the iron curtain, how the Berlin Wal...

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Don Mee Choi. Photo: © SONG Got. Courtesy of Wave Books. It’s a cliché to say that reading transports you, but in a year in which I spent most of my days indoors, shuffling between my bedroom and my living room, the books I read really were a lifeline, a portal to an outside world. In the weeks before New York shut down, I luxuriated in my subway reading, laughing aloud at Alma Mahler’s antics in turn-of-the-century Vienna in Cate Haste’s biography Passionate Spirit, savor...