Ned Sherrin down

As subject. Wit's end.

 

I didn't like Loose Ends but I had a an affection for him (this is
affection in a Radio 4 way).

Nothing like as gutted as I was when John Peel died.

 

Sadly missed. Who can forget the TW3 "consumers' guide to religion"?

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Unfortunately for both Ned and David it was over forty years ago.

 

"You had to be there."

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I only know the John Cleese version, did Sherrin write it?
http://atheistempire.com/mm_dl/audio/john cleese - consumers guide to religion.mp3

 

Throat cancer. Is that a risk if you swallow instead of spitting?

 

Dunno. Pretty sure it's the same piece though. Haven't listened to it
all yet. Does it include (of the CofE) "All in all, we think you get a
jolly good little faith for a very modest outlay, and we have no
hesitation in claiming it the Best Buy."

Sherrin produced TW3, so I wouldn't have seen it without it him IYSWIM.
Frost fronted it, but Cleese was a writer on TW3 so presumably he wrote
it?


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I'm assuming this is a comment based upon his R4 persona, which to be fair
went the way of so many people of his generation. Grossly stereotyped,
although not anywhere as bad as another notable poof, Kenneth Williams.

Nevertheless, his contribution to the arts has been notable, IMV.

 

Not me, as I've never heard it in the first place!

 

A rhetorical question - your loss.
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I never found him personally that funny. The content and format of TW3
were ground breaking. The fact that it was 40 years ago doesn't diminish
that IMO. For me at least, few other programmes have been such essential
viewing in quite the same way (even allowing for the fact that their
were no personal VCRs in 1962).



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I notice now that there is a link to an mp3 - I shall have a listen
later.

 

It doesn't seem to work now though.

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I have found reference to it being written by Robert Gillespie and
Charles Lewsen.
Classified as 'Tasteless' by some net gaurdian systems it seems.

PF

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Bear typed:

That didn't make The Times, then.