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   Carolen 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (carolen@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 05:20:16 JST Carolen 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

   Won't mean anything to anyone outside the UK, but Bill Dare has died 'after an accident while on holiday'

   Only 64 years old

   Producer of The Now Show and Dead Ringers as well as being involved in Spitting Image

   Massive lefty but had a huge impact on British radio entertainment

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2yme20rypo

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     EatKnitSleep (eatknitsleepagain@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 05:20:16 JST EatKnitSleep

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     @carolen That's not really old at all 😢. He was involved with The Mary Whitehouse Experience too. I used to like that one.
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 05:20:38 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @carolen Back when Radio 4 was good.
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     Carolen 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (carolen@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 05:22:36 JST Carolen 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma yeah 😔

     Although Andy Zaltzman has a dry wit and there are quite a few 'conservative' panellists on the News Quiz now

     Not enough balance though

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 05:26:48 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @carolen I haven't listened to radio 4 for a long time. It was a slow decline but eventually there just wasn't enough I wanted to listen to to justify the effort. Same with watching the BBC. I really couldn't justify handing over a licence fee for Only Connect and University Challenge, and that was back in 2020 when they were still decent.
     Like a shop that never has anything you like in your size, eventually you stop going in.
     They lost me a long time ago and doubt they'll ever get me back.