Bibliogryphon

With Cilla being from Liverpool will natural causes include drugs, stabbings and shootings?

Edward Heath is now being discussed with respect to historic child abuse allegations

Yesterday on Radio 4 they broadcast an episode of Echo Chamber where poets discuss their own work with Clive James looking back at his life in poetry. I didn't listen but he sounded very gravelly on the trailer. This should be available on I-Player for a while. Was this scheduled at the request of James?

I'm not in DDP but what's to say they died in 2015?I'd bitch about it so best I'm not playing lol. That said, this is precisely why a DP shouldn't allow terrorists or other highly potential unsubstantiatable folks, which means terrorists :-) SC There will be no DDP points if the pick was already dead when the game began (non-hit). You pick someone who is missing on this list you take your own risk.

Peter Arne was due to play Mr Range and his role went to the still living William Lucas. On the subject of Michael Grade I would invoke an anecdote by Richard O' Brien who during the Grade's reign at Channel 4 where The Crystal Maze was the most watched programme Grade would virtually ignore the creative team at events because he personally disliked the show. He does not seem to be a 'nice' man

Nope that would be a first.Except for all those thousands of years when there was no press, birth certificates, or the popular concept of "records".I beg to differ. The concept of longevity records is at least as old as The Holy Bible. But it would have been quite hard to challenge the record holder. 28 And the days of Zsa Zsa Gabor was a bloody long time by all accounts

Cosidering that when she died she was pick on precisely 0 DDP teams I think this would be highlighting one of our big failures.

Madeleine LeBeau could be a good possibility for next year the last surviving credited cast member from Casablanca

Even the director of Resurrection acknowledges they went over the top but this story was meant to be the cliffhanger to the previous series and they had cast Mel Smith in the role that Rodney Bewes took and Miriam Margolys as Professor Laird (instead of Chloe Ashcroft) but this was scuppered by a strike. I would be intrigued to see that version but it still doesn't alter the fact that the script is a mess. Eric Saward's work does not really stand up to much scrutiny but is a bit like a rollercoaster ride but I would still like to know what happened in his episode 14 though.

Aye, he's one like Julian Glover, collecting roles in various cult things! the whole article doesn't even mention his other movies just his minor role in Harry Potter My son who is 6 knows him from the animated version of Lord of The Rings as the voice of Aragorn / Strider, from Doctor Who as the War Doctor, and also from the Harry Potter movies. Mind you, all fans can be so myopic. I remember when Geoffrey Hughes died, some places had him "best remembered for his role in Doctor Who". A role which took up a whole two episode. No one watched Corrie, Heartbeat or the internationally renowned Keeping up Appearances there, I take it! I don't even remember Geoffrey Hughes in Doctor Who, although if he appeared in it at a time when Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy played the Doctor it's likely that I didn't pay much attention as I more or less stopped watching it by that time as I just couldn't get into the storylines and for me they didn't seem right for the role. He was in Trial of a Time Lord, briefly. He played Mr Popplewick Who was actually the Valeyard Who was actually the Doctor This is what you get when your lead writer dies halfway through the season finale and the script editor storms off taking the script outline for the final episode with him leaving the only people left in the building to try and work out an ending based on the scripts to that point. Forget an Adventure in Time & Space they should make a drama out of the last years of Doctor Who before Michael Grade killed it off. If they could find someone suitable evil to play Michael Grade. Sorry but I don't really understand the hate leveled against Grade at all. To me, the quality of the show took a nose-dive due to the Saward-JNT team. Everything they touched turned to muck due to ridiculous decisions (poor casting, turning the Doctor into a gun-toting thug, massive death tolls in episodes, poor selection of writers [Pip and Jane for instance] and various ill-conceived gimmicks.) Yes, the quality picked up substantially right at the very end when Cartmel tried to save things but it was too late by then. Grade performed a mercy-killing in my humble opinion. The only other thing he could have done was to sack Saward and JNT years earlier but it was better to give the show a rest or we wouldn't have the strong series we have now. This was a case of people staying too long in the job. When JNT took over he completely revamped the show. If you comapare the quality of the last Graham Williams series (Creature from the Pit/Horns of Nimon) with things like The Leisure Hive/Warriors' Gate & Full Circle then you will see his achievments. The problem came when he got to casting his second Doctor and then a third. Yes almost all of the Seventh Doctor seriels are low quality but Grade contrived to put Doctor Who in this position (poor funding, relegating it from Saturday nights). It was trying to restablish itself when it was cancelled and you were probably right that it needed to end or drastically change direction but no-one seemed to want the job and therefore JNT just carried on because that was the easiest option. I still have misgivings about the current state of the show. Moffatt probably needs to decide where his loyalties lie.

Clearly you were not a watcher of Dynasty/The Colbys in the eighties when Joan Collins appears as Alexis, the widow of Cecil Colby and former wife of Blake Carrington it is noticable that she is the only one who uses the 'English' pronunciation of the name.

I think we are over due a woman so I am going for Maureen O' Hara

I know how you mean, you get excited that Deathlist got a hit, but when it sinks in who it was you are then thinking "Oh!!! not..... " What I meant was that I've been waiting for a hit the past few days, and every time I clicked on the 2015 Names and saw and update, I had a feeling the person might have died. But right before I clicked on the O'Sullevan thread, I told myself to be rational; he probably didn't die. But then I read the thread and ironically, he did die. If one of the names that isn't regularly discussed rises up the list then that does make me think 'have they gone' but ZZG, Kirk Douglas, Martin Crowe and Fidel Castro updates does not raise any expectation of demise.

No one can do the hospital hokey-cokey quite like Zsa Zsa. (well she can still join in with half of it) INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...................................................................................................................................................................................... .................................................OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

I am sure the Sun will go to his office along with a bag of coke and some prostitutes to see if they can catch him out! But when they emerge it transpires he has just signed them up to be (knocking) shop stewards of the National Sex Workers Union

Desmond has started the hospital hokey-cokey Clearly he is making a play to ensure his inclusion in everyone's early 2016 draft lists.

Still another fortnight for the Daily Mail to try and pin something really horrible on him. Jeremy Corbyn is secretly an alien who has sex with trees?

I think that there should have been an additional question. Not only who do you think will win but who do you want to win. I voted Cooper for the former but I would love to see Corbyn win and then sweep to an election victory when the Conservative party fall apart over Europe and suffer a handful of defections. The Lib Dems form an electoral pact with the Greens and PC which allows them to push back the Tories in the SW. This would happen in Early 2017 before the PLP have come up with a convincing strategy to remove Corbyn. I think Cooper is playing the long game. Kendall is way out and Burnham's supporters may be a little over zealous the sexist comments about Cooper and Kendall not being capable of leading the Labour party are a case in point. My fear is that Corbyn may have peaked too soon though when do the ballot papers start going out?

and he seems to have managed to get Lords reform back on the agenda.

Rather than clutter up the thread discussing missing Leicestershire school girls I have decided to addres the Ranieri comments here. I think that he has been handed a crock of shit. (Not his fault). I am unaware of his reputation as I am fairly parochial when it comes to football. However he needs to have some early success because my reading of the situation is that he will not automatically have the terraces or the dressing room with him. He may have the confidence of the owners but how will he fair in a eightway relegation tussel? I hope Nigel Pearson gets a new job soon.

How would you feel if your beloved club was owned by someone who most right thinking people of the world are convinced is an utter dick or does it depend on how much money he is spending?

Not forgetting regular appearances as next-door neighbour Mary in The Royle Family. Doreen Keogh's Wiki entry is only four lines long but I have a feeling she is the sort of person who should get an Obit and possibly the introduction to an article about the early cast of Coronation Street. They did a Grange Hill Where are they now? when Terry-Sue Patt died

Approaching 49 but thanks to good genetics and a decent face cream I look about 34-36. I have a favourite mirror like that, too. I have a different problem with the mirror. It shows a rapidly greying slightly tubby 45 year old when I am certain that I am a healthy slim raven haired 26 year old. I was when my daughter was born.

Well considering that the NZ team were on a tour of England at that time means that even if he was watching on telly there should have been plenty to write about.

I'm sure there was a topic for Desert Island Discs but alas, I can't bloody find it. Anyway, Pilbeam was the LAST living person to have appeared as a guest on the show during the 1940s. There are 22 people still alive who appeared on the show during the 1950s: Petula Clark / b. 1932 Sally Ann Howes / b. 1930 Vera Lynn / b. 1917 Sheila Sim / b. 1922 Peggy Cummins / b. 1925 Tony Mottram / b. 1920 Edward Allcard / b. 1914 Claire Bloom / b. 1931 Stirling Moss / b. 1929 Leslie Caron / b. 1931 Shirley Abicair / b. 1930 Janette Scott / b. 1938 Tommy Steele / b. 1936 David Attenborough / b. 1926 Beryl Grey / b. 1927 Cleo Laine / b. 1927 Harry Belafonte / b. 1927 Elizabeth Seal / b. 1933 June Paul / b. 1934 Chris Barber / b. 1930 Judy Grinham / b. 1939 Sylvia Syms / b. 1934 So, what, we pick eight we'd really like to see dead and then have to pick one of those we'd really really like to see dead? Oh, alright then, Petula Clark Book: Tourist Guide to Maryport Luxury: The Crown Jewels (cos the scandal of me cracking cocoanuts with priceless gems belonging to the Crown would get me picked up from that fucking island in no time!) Easyone this - Cleo Laine Book; Stephen Donaldson 'Gap' Series Luxury Complete set of Doctor Who DVDs (& Player)