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Article: Obituary: Jill Dando
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 27, 1999
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THE COVER of this week's Radio Times shows a 37-year-old woman at
the prime of her professional career and about to take the most
significant step of her personal life. Jill Dando was moving on from
the Holiday programme, where she had become part of the nation's
consciousness, synonymous with entertaining, yet insightful, reports
from around the world, to her new series, Antiques Inspectors. The
move was in part because she planned to marry her boyfriend, Alan
Farthing, in September. She told the magazine that "getting married
this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather
more time in England".
Jill Dando was born in Weston-super-Mare in 1961. When she was a
few months ...