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Goodness me, what a haul of people. Alas, I'm old enough to remember Ray Barrett in EW10.
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Didn't I hear on Ken Bruce that Felix Bowness (ex of Hi De Hi) has now gone? It seems the 'croaking season' is well and truly under way.
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| Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | | It seems the 'croaking season' is well and truly under way. |
Yes indeed, we were at a funeral yesterday, an old lady from Barbados, one of those funerals where the whole community of Bajans from Coventry were there, hundreds of people. As we stood at the graveside my wife and I looked at the adjacent grave which was occupied last week and it was a local joiner that we also knew!
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Only reading about Keith Floyd in the paper the other day. The first ever true UK TV chef who bought cooking to our TV screens. Rarly used a studio and had a tipple with every cook. Used to get the camera man involved too. RIP Keith.
Thats Felix Bowness. Hi Di Hi.. Ho Di Ho.. RIP
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2057205_hidehi_star_felix_bowness_dies_aged_87 |
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Life is a bit like a hospital appointment. You go into the waiting room full of people, you sit, look around at the faces, some old, some young. After a while, names are called out, those people are lead away. Time passes, then, bingo, your name is called out, and you are lead away, you go to another room, then there they all are, all the people whose names were called out before yours, just waiting for another call. This process continues until you see the big cheese.
It’s not that people die, they just go to the next waiting room, and we’ll be there with them in less time than it takes to thumb through an Ideal Home Magazine. |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| John W wrote: | | Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | | It seems the 'croaking season' is well and truly under way. |
As we stood at the graveside my wife and I looked at the adjacent grave which was occupied last week and it was a local joiner that we also knew!
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We are in a similar position today when we learned of the death of a handyman we knew this morning. We haven't yet been told when his funeral is.
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| mark occomore wrote: | | The first ever true UK TV chef who bought cooking to our TV screens. |
 What about our Fanny?
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Helen May
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| iwarburton wrote: | Goodness me, what a haul of people. Alas, I'm old enough to remember Ray Barrett in EW10.
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Me as well Ian. I liked him in the Troubleshooters, was he not in the Planemakers as well?
Sad day.
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No he wasn't H.
He voiced John Tracy in Thunderbirds. I thought he was a regular in EW10, but he's only listed as appearing in two episodes. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057254/
He was also in Golden Soak, which was an excellent television adaptation of a Hammond Innes novel. Why were there not more of those, I wonder?
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Interesting that the news of Keith Floyd's death was given precedence over Patrick Swayze's on the BBC Six O'Clock last night, and again in this morning's papers.
The Telegraph reports that he died after having a celebratory lunch with his girlfriend, "having been given the all-clear from [bowel] cancer" by his doctor that morning. Can't find the story on their website (goodness knows why they proclaim themselves "Digital Publisher Of The Year - it's useless!) but this is on the Scottish Daily Record - http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2009/09/16/keith-floyd-the-tv-chef-who-died-as-he-lived-86908-21676839/
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Helen May
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| RockitRon wrote: | No he wasn't H.
He voiced John Tracy in Thunderbirds. I thought he was a regular in EW10, but he's only listed as appearing in two episodes. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057254/
He was also in Golden Soak, which was an excellent television adaptation of a Hammond Innes novel. Why were there not more of those, I wonder? |
I think I was getting it mixed up with Mogul which he was in. 
He was definitely in more that 2 episodes of EW10 though, I remember watching it with my mum who was fan of the show.
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I thought he was, but then I started wondering whether I'm mixing him up with Charles Tingwell.
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Charles Tingwell - he was the one who had a thing for Sister Young (Jill Browne).
Ray Barrett was Dr Don Nolan and in casualty (Independent Obituary) so would have been in more than 2 episodes.
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| The Italian Job screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin has passed away at the age of 77. |
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Mary Travers, late of Peter, Paul and Mary, has died aged 72.
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iwarburton
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Re Ray Barrett, his character was in EW10 for some months.
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Sorry to hear about Mary Travers. I have seen her on various programmes about Bob Dylan recently and she was obviously ill. I'll remember her in her glory days, tossing her hair around and singing her heart out!  |
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Briant, I saw the same programmes where Mary Travers was interviewed and was really worried about her.
I'm amazed at reading elsewhere that she had suffered from stage fright earlier. The footage I've seen of Peter, Paul & Mary in their prime showed her to be the most confident of the three!
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As well as Ian Wallace, noted elsewhere, Al Martino has died at the age of 82.
One of my dad's few favourites, Here In My Heart was No 1 in the very first UK pop chart 57 years ago. He was performing almost to the end, his career enjoying a second, or third, wind of popularity in Germany.
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