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Nigel Stapley

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/55963624 Translation of opening paragraphs: "Former S4C program director Euryn Ogwen Williams died at the age of 78. "He was an experienced broadcaster and a pioneering figure in the media world in Wales. "He started his broadcasting career straight from university as...

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The man of whom the late Clive James said,

"Even in moments of tranquility, he sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire"

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The purveyor of blue-chip filth to the purveyor of blue-chip filth.

https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2021/02/ ... dies_at_68

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Translation from the report at BBC Cymru ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/55423886 ) (as I haven't been able to find a report in English yet): "The actor Clive Roberts has died, aged 76. He was best known for playing the part of George in the popular comedy series 'Fo A Fe'. In 1990, he was convicte...

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Presenter, editor, producer and founding editor of BBC Radio Wales in 1978:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52495668

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Grandstand, Breakfast Time, Holiday...and various...erm... saucy activities.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54684374

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TV producer (The Adventures Of Black Beauty, Dick Turpin, Robin Of Sherwood)

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... t-obituary

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I would love to see the one again when the whole audience suddenly jumped up in the middle of the programme and started singing - except for one poor man, who'd been deliberately left out of the rehearsal. They replayed his reactions in slow motion as he gradually rose to his feet and tried to join...

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Brock wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:50 pm

Simon Coward wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:54 am

Of course, other people had done minstrel shows on the stage before then
But had they?
Anecdotal evidence: when my old man lived briefly in Letchworth, Herts. at the end of the 30s, he was a member of one such minstrel troupe.

Nigel Stapley

I think it's just that internet habits have changed down the years. I remember the heyday of Usenet and how, for instance, alt.fan.pratchett used to have so many posts in a day that it was often difficult to keep up. Now, there may be no more than twenty or thirty 'legit' posts in a whole year . Wit...

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Another part of my childhood/teen years falls away. Interesting what you say Mr_Wolf ( and why are you in red, by the way? Mods' privilege? ) about The Goodies' attitude to the 'South Africa' episode. I know I've related this elsewhere here, but anyway... That episode was first broadcast when I was ...

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Absolute Legend! So many wonderful shows and appearances, strangely one thing I always think of him for, was that 'Keep Britain Tidy' PIF, where he joins the youngsters against Litter! Also a lovely early appearance in one of the surviving episodes of "Our House", inadvertently on the receiving end...

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Mark wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:46 pm
...the brilliant episode where they set up a pirate radio station and only had one record to play!'.

A Walk In The Black Forest it was, too!

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"...in Paris he was a passenger in a speeding car..." Driven by the novelist Françoise Sagan, if I recall correctly, and it wasn't so much 'speeding' as 'being driven recklessly'. There was a shunt at some point, I think. There was an earlier series on a similar concept called "Clive James In..." ,...

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Not a line, nor a moment, but an entire episode. At the age of 13 or so, I was as full of irrational prejudices as any working-class boy of that age. I always watched The Goodies . So I settled in front of the family box one evening for the latest offering... ...to be met with the (in)famous 'South ...

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Is that the same sketch where 'Turnham Green' crops up as a punchline as well?

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Some place names are just intrinsically funny. 'Catford' is just an example (in one of Milligna's memoirs, a fellow-soldier says, "Christ, I must be bored. I just thought of Catford" . I remember a Mike & Bernie Winters sketch where Bernie is playing a suitably gormless British soldier in WW1 who is...

Nigel Stapley

I agree about LOTSW which - to my tastes, at least - stopped being funny in about 1984. There's also the matter of institutional culture or just plain inertia to consider. I think it was the late Rob Buckman who said that if World War II had been under the control of one of the American networks it ...

Nigel Stapley

Musician, songwriter, the Bonzos, Python, Rutland Weekend Television, The Rutles, etc., etc., etc.

BBC

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A giant figure (at times literally). His television criticism for the Observer was not only pioneering but remains essential reading to this very day.

My own take, for what it's worth: http://www.thejudge.me.uk/Not_blog/Not_ ... 191127.htm

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Composer and arranger.

Indy obit

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Director of The Life And Times Of David Lloyd George and the Oscar-nominated film Hedd Wyn

BBC

(Let's see how long it takes the London luvvie press to notice).

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Actress, comedian: Grauniad obit

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One of my favourites that I vaguely remember hearing somewhere was a story about ATV transmission. I think it was when ATV was at Aston Cross in Birmingham. The story goes that they were screening a late-night film when one of the transmission team noticed that they could see through the window int...

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Former BBC Cymru newsreader, later a 'combative' (euphemism) Tory & KIPper politician, MP and AM.

BBC Report

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@David,

Many thanks for your efforts on this, it's much appreciated.

@stearn,

Yes, I think that's what they were using in the 90s. I'll see if I can follow up on your leads. Thanks for that.

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David,

Did you ever manage to track this piece down?

Nigel Stapley

Dr. Who. the animated The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, and much besides:

Obit

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This may be apocryphal, but I recall someone claiming that in the run-up to the 1980 US election, Walden topped the programme by saying that there was going to be an interview with, "Pwesident Carter's Wepublican Wival Wonald Weagan".

Nigel Stapley

Oh that's very sad news. I'm surprised there hasn't been an obituary on Radio 4 as I'm sure many listeners remember him well. The people running R4 nowadays don't seem to be too bothered when it comes to the station's legacy. On top of which, it took the Graun nearly six weeks to publish an obit.

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