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Dramatist, scriptwriter, actor.

BBC

Mrs McGurk in Pobol Y Cwm and a lot more besides:

BBC

I had no problem with the interviewing; it was the linking narration which sounded wooden.

Nice content and a good interview, but Garry Richardson's linking pieces sounded like a blind man trying to read Braille for the first time.

None of the rest of England had similar programmes, though there were five-minute regional news bulletins on VHF at certain times of day. One of them was at 17:55, as opt-outs from PM . I could get two of the regions here, Midlands (from SC?) and North (from Holme Moss). So many times I heard, "And...

Memories of watching him via a slightly ropey Band III signal from Lichfield...

The genius was in his recognising that the part had to be played absolutely deadpan. As a result, it was far funnier than it would have been had he made any attempt overtly to play it for laughs.

One of the true legends. And his own man, too; few managed to get in Biddy Baxter's face and survive. Never forget Go With Noakes . Two things stand out: when he was playing rugby league for Castleford 'A' in a 'friendly', his voiceover late on in the game went something like, "With ten minutes to g...

Ivy from the café in LOTSW.

Guardian

Announcer, reporter, presenter and commentator.

BBC

Broadcaster, journalist & activist.

Indy

I'm fairly sure that this was Larry Grayson's play-on music at one time.

Edit: Blast! Just beaten to it! :-)

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you very much indeed, Al.

That's exactly the problem I had, Brock. Trouble with that site is that its output is only as good as its input, and if no-one has uploaded the example, you're stuffed.

In S05 E03 of The Former Radio Show The Burkiss Way, in the 'Lady Marquis-Melville' sketch, there is a fanfare. I also remember the same one appearing in a Trade Test Colour Film about Cyprus (was it Crossroads Of Civilisation?). Anyone know where the fanfare is from?

Two more (and with a connection between them): Alan Young (November 19 1919 - May 19 2016); Mister Edd's sidekick and animation voice actor ( Scrooge McDuck amongst others) Washington Post obit Janet Waldo (February 2 1920 - June 12 2016); actress and voice actor ( The Jetsons , Josie & The Pussycat...

Doyen of TV war reporters.

ITV

The man once memorably described by Michael O'Donnell as being like a "euphoric hamster"

Grauniad obit.

If anyone has it to hand, it might be worth checking through Bough's book Cue Frank! , because he may have mentioned it there. Being an inveterate josher, though, any tale in that book needs to be treated with a degree of kindly sceptism, like the one where he claimed to have narrowly avoided transp...

I've done a fair bit of research down at the BBC Caversham Archive on Radio Themes, mainly the Light Programme and Radio 2 but hope the following helps a little: Week Ending. 1976. Smokey Joe. Van Phillips. Small Group. Thanks for this. It explains why I've never been able to track down that piece....

Now, can anyone tell me who are Disaster Area on the "It's Only the End of the World Again" single? Rumour has it that Rusty Egan was involved, and DNA plays rhythm guitar. [...] I'm not even sure I know who wrote it. In a comment to the 'video' of this track posted on a site we're not allowed to m...

Brock wrote:I've just been listening to JY singing on Radio 2's Sounds of the 50s. I only really knew him as a DJ so it's easy to forget his other talents. Makes me wonder how many people grew up not realizing Cilla Black could sing.

Haven't you missed a 'not' out in that last sentence?

Back in the 60s, I was convinced there was a BBC newsreader called Al Varley-Dell.

It's a matter of regret that I never got to go to Eindhoven to see the place in its pomp.

Michael Aspel used to joke, that people in the street, would call out 'Hello Ask', when he presented "Ask Aspel", ( at least I think he was joking!). The guy who used to run our office (and whose name appeared at the top of all the letters we sent out) got the OBE, which he had appended to his name...

Engineering Information announcements on BBC2. I'm being only slightly facetious about this, in that that not only led me to the Trade Test Colour Films (of which Philips' Evoluon and Pan-Tele-Tron were clear favourites), but also to those names which were like Chimborazo and Cotapaxi were to W.J. T...

In about 1972, our next-door neighbour Ada said, "We're getting a BBC2 aerial in time for Christmas so we can see The Queen in colour".
They only had a black-and-white set...

One of the last of the legends of British radio.

BBC

Some misunderstanding here, perhaps.

The theme music from Kaleidoscope was jettisoned after a couple of years of the programme's run. The programme, as you say, continued for a long time thereafter.