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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office

Over on Slacktivist, they've been discussing the fact that Ronnie Briggs and Harold Camping died on the same day.

TRiG.smiley - rainbow


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Oh, he's brown bread too is he?

Brown bread... dang, that would have been a good title for the thread smiley - flustered


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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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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 smiley - sadface

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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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 smiley - flustered

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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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 smiley - yuk), 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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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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Alexandra Bastedo smiley - sadface
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 smiley - cheers

Now, of course, I have The Champions theme tune playing endlessly in my head.


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Sho - employed again!

smiley - chef will be sad, he was always a little bit in love with her


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Deek

Oh... blow! That hurts.
smiley - sadface Me too. I always had a bit of a thing for her. 

Deke


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A lot of boys of a certain age did, apparently smiley - loveblush 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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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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Roger Lloyd Pack smiley - sadface
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 smiley - biggrin


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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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Sho - employed again!

At least he has the claim to fame of being the very first Sports Personality of the Year. smiley - rose


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Is that right? I didn't know that. Well gorblimey smiley - biggrin


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Sho - employed again!

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!

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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Peter Dimmock. Now there's a name I remember smiley - bigeyes I'm seeing a moustache... ha, there he is on the right, Chris Chataway centre. And that'll be Roger Bannister behind the camera smiley - biggrin


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http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67401000/jpg/_67401324_chataway54.jpg


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