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The extraordinary Annie Nightingale, Radio 1's first female DJ and a supporter of new music and young artists for the whole of her decades-long career, has died, aged 83.
Her 2020 episode of Desert Island Discs, with Lauren Laverne, celebrates the 50th anniversary of her first appearance on Radio 1.
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Desert Island Discs - Annie Nightingale, DJ - BBC Sounds
Annie Nightingale, DJ, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.BBC
British computer scientist and mathematician Kathleen Booth has passed away. Kathleen is credited with inventing the concept of assembly language and implementing the subsequent assembler and autocode for computers at the University of London. Machines: The Automatic Relay Calculator (ARC), Simple Electronic Computer (SEC) and the All Purpose Electronic (X) Computer (APE(X)C)
Kathleen Booth 1922 - 2022
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