STEPHEN FRY

I had to go around a cemetery recently checking out the older (100+ years) headstones, and everyone died when they were little. it made me feel like I was old for having survived to adulthood.

I just wanted to mention the recent death of Ludovic Kennedy. He was great campaigner for miscarriages of justice and helped to have the death penalty abolished in the UK.

He wrote the famous book 10 Rillington Place, on the Christie murders and helped to get a pardon for Timothy Smith, arguing he was wrongly accused of the murder of his baby daughter.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8314778.stm

Unfortunately.the great actor Edward Woodward,has now become part of this thread.
R.I.P Edward Woodward.

I hope you can get this outside the uk. It's a lovely tribute to Edward Woodward by Mark Kermode.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/11/far.....dward.html

I can still remember him in Callan...I must check out the dvds.

He used to tell the story of the day he was introduced to Laurence Olivier, who said "Edward Woodward? It sounds like a fart in a bathtub!".

I shall miss Fart In A Bathtub.

Sincere condolences from an unaware Yank to you British peoples for the loss of your native born talents above this reply.

Here's a cuppa your favorite tea -->bink!<-- and a kiss on your forehead [shwiff, kiss].

I watched the clips, Tito, and she reminds me of all the great down to earth characters I met in Salford when I first moved up in the 90s...sadly there's not many left on my estate.

They lived through all the bad times here, when it all became run down in the late 70s and 80s and was full of druggie and petty criminals. They used to tell me load of great stories.

I only live a few streets down from the Granada studios. And I've even seen a few of the Corrie stars in my local Sainsbury's.

Just around the corner was were they also filmed the orignal Hobson's Choice with Charles Laughton, before the war bombed all many of the old houses away.

Now it's all changed around here again, and the only faces I know are the one's I say casual hellos too. Shame. I miss some of the old battleaxes.