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Rip Roy Hudd
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With the C-word having knocked nearly all other news off the BBC News website, it's left to our local rag to report on the passing of one of Aunty Beeb's longest-serving geniuses:
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I was never a great fan of much of what passed for comedy on BBC Radio 2, preferring the satirical stuff that was largely on Radio 4. However 'The News Huddlines' was always an exception for me. It could be hard-hitting at times and was always good for a laugh.
Roy Hudd lived in a village just up the road from me. The last time I saw him was in 2016, when he was handing out the prizes at a local 'open garden' event. (Photos in my album here, if anyone is interested: https:/
If heaven exists, there will angels falling off their clouds through laughter tonight.
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I was never a great fan of much of what passed for comedy on BBC Radio 2, preferring the satirical stuff that was largely on Radio 4. However 'The News Huddlines' was always an exception for me. It could be hard-hitting at times and was always good for a laugh.
Roy Hudd lived in a village just up the road from me. The last time I saw him was in 2016, when he was handing out the prizes at a local 'open garden' event. (Photos in my album here, if anyone is interested: https:/
If heaven exists, there will angels falling off their clouds through laughter tonight.
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A great man - RIP.
Just to add these messages too.
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Just to add these messages too.
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a trifle unfair, the Guardian has two articles, neither of them by the look of it the official obituary
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Several in the Telegraph. People have noticed!
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Several in the Telegraph. People have noticed!
Oops! I missed that thread, Mamya. Thanks anyway!
That was, indeed, one of his classic lines, JimF. He could also be relied upon, whenever giving a public speech of any sort, to come out with a really tired old joke and then anxiously look around the crowd, saying "They're coming towards us, folks!" ;-)
That was, indeed, one of his classic lines, JimF. He could also be relied upon, whenever giving a public speech of any sort, to come out with a really tired old joke and then anxiously look around the crowd, saying "They're coming towards us, folks!" ;-)
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