Eccentric TV astronomer Patrick Moore, 89, has died at his home in Sussex:
Sir Patrick Moore, 89, Dies At Home - Yahoo! News UK
Unusually I watched 'The Sky at Night' not long ago, and he spent most of the time on screen slumped on a chair, and hardly said a word. Never married, so expect the now-customary allegations to emerge shortly ...
Used to love The Sky at Night as a nipper but haven't caught an ep for a good two or three years. One of the last great British amateur enthusiasts.
Always thought of him as harmless eccentric when I was younger, but it turns out he was, rather like Norris McWhirter, something of a right-wing nutbag. Think he ended up with UKIP, but was involved with some rather unsavoury anti-immigration lot before that.
RIP tho.
- As featured in The Independent.
"This is not the time for namby-pamby promising youngsters who might just do something; not the time for building for the future. Pragmatism rules and they don't come more pragmatic than Rogers."
- Victor Marks makes the case for stiff-legged and stiff-armed 35 year old left-handers in Ashes squads
Liked his cricket, so can't have been all bad
RIP
Ravi Shankar
Sorry to see that Richard Briers has lost his battle with emphysema (a condition that he'd kept secret) at the age of 79. His character in The Good Life was a bit of a cricket fan, IIRC.
Actor Richard Briers dies aged 79 - Yahoo! TV UK
Wow. RIP. That was unexpected. He was a lot older than I imagined.
Used to really love The Good Life when I was wee. Haven't seen it for Donkey's now tho; wonder if it still stands up.
Tom (his character) was definitely a cricket fan, I recall one ep when a chap who'd been swiping his veg owned up and said it wasn't on, "Like putting a foot over the boundary rope and claiming a catch." Tom was so impressed he let him take some veg, but Barbara saw him taking some, didn't believe Tom would ever let someone have some and released their goat onto him.
He was a very good actor, was brilliant and convincing in some sinister roles in later life in shows like New Tricks and Midsomer Murders.
He got to be married to the sexiest woman who ever lived, even if not in real life, so he really did have a good 'un
Another time he was playing with a (possibly home-made) Howzat dice.Originally Posted by BoyBrumby
"Oh blow, I'm out. Drat! I was just getting my eye in, as well."
Barbara: "how many did you make?"
"279."
His greatest role was surely that in Watership Down.
Also, I seem to remember some comedy-drama he was in during the 1990s which was superb, but I can't remember the name of and it isn't on his record on IMDB - so maybe it was someone else. I was sure he played a guy with dementia who started talking in advertisements as his conversation. Not sure if anyone remembers this. I'm sure there was a washing powder called "Banquo" or something similar in it. Very odd.
>>>>>>WHHOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHH>>>>>>
Fascist Dictator of the Heath Davis Appreciation Society
Supporting Petone's Finest since the very start - Iain O'Brien
Adam Wheater - Another batsman off the Essex production line
Also Supporting the All Time #1 Batsman of All Time Ever - Jacques Kallis and the much maligned Peter Siddle.
Vimes tells it how it is:
It was this: If You See God, Tell Him - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And it was absolutely bloody superb. The sort of black comedy that the BBC have excelled at over the years.
Felicity Kendal?
The very same
RIP Joan Childs. First female Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.
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