Darien Angadi

Darien Robert Kabir Angadi 19 March 1949 5 December 1981 was an English singer and actor Darien Angadi was the son of painter and novelist Patricia Angadi née Patricia Clare FellClarke who introduced George Harrison of the Beatles to Ravi Shankar and Ayana Deva Angadi an impecunious Indian writer intellectual and Trotskyist He was born in Stoke Newington and attended The Haberdashers Askes Boys School where he was a prolific performer in school plays In 1965 whilst at the school he was a member of the school team for BBC Televisions Television Top of the Form He achieved some fame as a boy treble recording Benjamin Brittens Noyes Fludde with the Wandsworth School Boys Choir and songs by Schubert and Schumann He sang with the Finchley Childrens 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 Blakes 7 From 1968 until 1971 he was a Choral Scholar at Trinity College Cambridge He married Irene Lenihan in 1977 He starred in the Horizon episode of the science fiction series Blakes 7 Angadi hanged himself in 1981 He was 32 years old His story was told during a BBC Four documentary on the schools quiz programme Television Top of the Form on 17 April 2006