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  Standout moments from the career of Lionel Blair

  The multi-talented performer once took part in a dance off in front of the Queen Mother.

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  Iain Pattinson obituary

  Iain Pattinson obituary. Longstanding chief scriptwriter for the much-loved Radio 4 panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

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  Iain Pattinson, scriptwriter on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, ‘the antidote to panel games’ – obituary

  Iain Pattinson, who has died from leukaemia aged 68, was the scriptwriter behind I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, the anarchic “antidote to panel games” on Radio 4, famous for its smutty jokes that have made it cult listening for nearly half a century. Hired in 1993 by a new producer, Jon Naismith, Pattinson furnished the show’s chairman with a weekly script bookended by a discursive introductory monologue and an ornate final farewell, interlaced with the show’s regular features like One Song to the

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  Tributes paid to comedy writer Iain Pattinson following his death aged 68

  He was best known for his work on Radio 4 panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.

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  I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is greatest radio comedy, says panel

  I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is greatest radio comedy, says panel. Long-running Radio 4 panel game beats classics Hancock’s Half Hour and Round the Horne

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  Don Weller, jazz saxophonist who worked with Stan Tracey, Gil Evans and David Bowie – obituary

  Don Weller, who has died aged 79, was a tenor saxophonist and one of the most original and well-liked British jazz musicians of his generation; there was no mistaking his full, juicy tone and unique turn of phrase. Just as important, he had what Humphrey Lyttelton used to call the “here I am!” quality, a presence powerful enough to make itself felt on recordings or over the radio. The very first musical sound to be heard at the opening of the 1986 film Absolute Beginners is a rising ululation of

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  VE Day: victory celebrations hid fear of an uncertain future for many Britons

  It was a great celebration, but not everyone was jubilant.

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  Brian Matthew obituary

  On air with the BBC Light Programme for the skiffle boom, and on television for the ITV pop show Thank Your Lucky Stars, he later presented Radio 2’s Sounds of the Sixties. In 1957, two years into a job as a BBC producer-cum-announcer, Brian Matthew, who has died aged 88, was invited to present the BBC Light Programme’s Saturday Skiffle Club. Skiffle, that shortlived but vital hybrid that incubated British rock’n’roll, duly expired shortly afterwards, and so, in October 1958, the show was rela

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