Darien Angadi

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Darien Robert Kabir Angadi (19 March 1949 – 5 December 1981) was an English singer and actor.

Biography

Darien Angadi was the son of painter and novelist

Trotskyist.[1]

He was born in

Wandsworth School Boys' Choir,[2] and songs by Schubert and Schumann.[3] He sang with the Finchley Children's Music Group and then the London Boy Singers
.

After his voice broke he turned to acting, achieving success on the stage and in television drama productions, including I, Claudius and Blake's 7.[4] From 1968 until 1971 he was a Choral Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Irene Lenihan in 1977.[citation needed] He starred in the Horizon episode of the science fiction series Blake's 7.[5]

Angadi hanged himself in 1981.[6][7] His story was told during a BBC Four documentary on the schools' quiz programme Television Top of the Form on 17 April 2006.[citation needed][8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Obituary of Patricia Angadi". The Guardian. 17 July 2001. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  2. ^ Argo Records 1961
  3. ^ EMI Records, 7 EG 8873, 1964
  4. ^ "Darien Angadi". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Blake's 7 : Horizon (1979) - Jonathan Wright-Miller | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" – via www.allmovie.com.
  6. ^ "BFI Film & TV Database". Archived from the original on 19 January 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  7. ^ The date of 1981 is supported by the obituary of his mother in The Guardian, and ancestry.co.uk gives his date of death as 5 December 1981 – supported by a photocopy of his entry in the National Probate Calendar
  8. ^ "Schedule - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.

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