RMweb Premium MJI Posted January 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2020 A good innings anyway Very entertaining chap, will be missed RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two_sugars Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Yes, he was the "straight man" to Arthur Haynes . .. at times neither of them could keep a straight face! John 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torn-on-the-platform Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Finding Just a Minute on iPlayer introduced me to radio comedy and by extension, talk radio and podcasts. I feel I have a lot to thank Nicholas Parsons for! I have always thought his gentlemanly and jovial manner set a fine example. I don't remember the other much talked about work of his, but it sounds like he packed in an awful lot in his 96 years. A life to be celebrated. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 He was surprisingly good in Doctor Who in the late 1980s, when it went through a phase of miscasting lightweight entertainment people (Ken Dodd, Bonny Langford etc). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 He was of course an actor before he got the gig from the Norwich Cattle Market TV Company, and often appears in supporting roles on vintage films and early TV programmes on Squawking Pictures. I remember reading somewhere that he used to have a stammer and the acting and TV presenting helped him with it. He was also allegedly known as the fastest quizmaster when on Sale of the Century. Sale of the Century was the last TV programme my late mother watched on the night she died, she loved the show but my dad hated it (there again he hated all game shows, so I don't think it's a reflection on Nicholas Parsons.) To have reached this great age and still have been entertaining well into his ninth decade is a remarkable achievement and well deserving of all the tributes he has been getting. A sad loss. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 Copied from Castle Aching thread Quote Anyone know where exactly his father sent him to do his famous Glasgow Engineering Apprenticeship ? In ability to switch into the lingo, there seems little difference between him and (apprentice welder) Billy Connolly, though I imagine NP must have been a Premium Apprentice of the Churchward/Ivatts/Bulleid variety. dh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 6 hours ago, runs as required said: Copied from Castle Aching thread Drysdales. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lankyphil Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Courtesy of Private Eye via Fb 3 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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