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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Dec 19, 2013
Over on Slacktivist, they've been discussing the fact that Ronnie Briggs and Harold Camping died on the same day.
TRiG.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 19, 2013
Oh, he's brown bread too is he?
Brown bread... dang, that would have been a good title for the thread
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 21, 2013
David Coleman
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/dec/21/bbc-presenter-coleman-dies
Kenneth Wolstenholme was the voice of football, Harry Carpenter was the voice of Boxing, Murray Walker (ret.) was the voice of Formula 1, John Arlott was the voice of cricket, Dan Maskell was the voice of tennis, Kent Walton was the voice of wrestling, but David Coleman was simply the voice of sport.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 31, 2013
John Fortune
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/31/john-fortune-dies-at-74
The three Johns - Wells, Fortune and Bird - will always remain among my favourite funny people. John Wells died some years ago, but not before he wrote the 'Dear Bill' letters in Private Eye, and wrote and appeared in the stage play (only time I ever went to the Whitehall Theatre) and then TV film 'Anyone for Denis?'. All three were involved in the satire boom of the 1960s and mostly stayed within the more off-piste side of comedy, working with the likes of Spike Milligan, Ivor Cutler, Viv Stanshall and Jake Thackeray. A couple of programmes from those collaborations have been all but forgotten - Up Sunday and The End of the Pier Show. They're probably in the missing-presumed-wiped category
But these days I reckon Bird and Fortune will be best remembered for their work with Rory Bremner, especially the slot the two of them used to do where Fortune would interview Bird (sometimes the other way round) who was usually playing Admiral/General/Air Vice Marshall/Sir George Parr. John Fortune did the best bewildered/deer-in-headlights facial expression I think I've ever seen in some of those interviews.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 31, 2013
Geoffrey Wheeler
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25560734
Goodness, there's a memory from childhood days. Top of the Form was a sort of University Challenge for kids, or perhaps it was the other way round. Either way, I seem to remember that if one of the contestants answered a question by saying "Is it...", they'd get a terse "Are you asking me or telling me?" from Geoffrey. And now, of course, I can't get that theme tune out of my head
Top of the Form seems to have been lampooned often because I can find at least three such clips on YouTube, which is far more than I can find clips of the show itself (none). One of them, spookily, includes John Fortune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Ta4XbRRj4 and is another rehash (like the Four Yorkshiremen) of an old 1948 Show sketch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ofkz0Uki4
I've a feeling he also presented Young Scientist of the Year but I can't find anything to confirm that.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 4, 2014
Phil Everly
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25601185
I never really cared for the Everly Brothers, or much of the music from that late 50s/early 60s period when music became rather twee and poppy after the first flush of rick and roll (I'm looking at you in particular Neil Sedaka - Stupid Cupid, Calendar Girl, Happy Birthday Sweet 16 ), but I've always had an admiration for anyone who has their own sound, and you can definitely say that about the Everlys.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 5, 2014
Eusébio
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25611509
Another childhood memory bites the dust. It can't be long before the remaining members of the England '66 squad start dropping off their respective twigs in quick succession. I think they're all in their 70s now.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 13, 2014
Alexandra Bastedo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25708277
Alexandra Bastedo was in The Champions with Stuart Damon and William Gaunt. William Gaunt has had a busy time since then, including (but not limited to) parts in several films, comedy series, television plays, drama series, starring roles in at least one sitcom, and being served a pint of beer by me in 1999 at the pub where I was working
Now, of course, I have The Champions theme tune playing endlessly in my head.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 13, 2014
A lot of boys of a certain age did, apparently Although I honestly couldn't name anything else she was in without looking it up, apart from Ab Fab.
Blimey, she was in Batman Begins. I shall have to watch that again and look out for her.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 13, 2014
According to Davod Nobbs, John Horsley died yesterday but I can find no news of it or obits from my usual sources to link to yet.
Who he? Doc Morrissey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwriptdzH_U#t=25m30s
(That should take you to 25m 30s, but it doesn't always work).
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 16, 2014
Roger Lloyd Pack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006
A very fine actor who was so much more than Trigger, but as things to be so much more than go, Trigger's not bad
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 20, 2014
Chris Chataway
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/19/sir-christopher-chataway
Roger Bannister and the sub four-minute mile was a big thing when I was at school, but the other two people who made it happen were often overlooked, at least in that role, although they both became household names in their own right.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 20, 2014
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jan 20, 2014
it says it in the Indy article
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sir-chris-chataway-dead-first-ever-sports-personality-of-the-year-winner-dies-aged-82-9070242.html
but I'm checking it now. I may be some time. (and I may have to use wiki)
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jan 20, 2014
and Wikipedia has this to say:
The BBC's Sports Personality of the Year was created by Paul Fox, who came up with the idea while he was editor of the magazine show Sportsview. The first award ceremony took place in 1954 as part of Sportsview, and was presented by Peter Dimmock.[15] Held at the Savoy Hotel on 30 December 1954, the show lasted 45 minutes. It consisted of one titular award for the sportsperson judged by the public to have achieved the most that year.[16] Voting was by postcard, and rules presented in a Radio Times article stipulated that nominations were restricted to athletes who had featured on the Sportsview programme since April. For the inaugural BBC Sportsperson of the Year award, 14,517 votes were cast and Christopher Chataway beat fellow athlete Roger Bannister.[17] The following year the show was renamed Sports Review of the Year and given a longer duration of 75 minutes.[1][17]
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 21, 2014
Peter Dimmock. Now there's a name I remember I'm seeing a moustache... ha, there he is on the right, Chris Chataway centre. And that'll be Roger Bannister behind the camera
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 21, 2014
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