Bibliogryphon

Glad to see Doctor Who gets one place on the 2020 list and wrestling none. I could argue that Doctor Who should claim Prince Philip because of The Crown.

I admire your optimism but I think 17 points is more than Drol finished with at the end of 2019 However a number of players have commented how difficult it was to take decisions once the first few names are down

Just about to board a plane back to the UK

Joanne Woodward just to be contrary

I thought arap was something you wear that round your neck and the rest of you..... RIP Kenny Everett

Clearly Warren Buffett is trying to bribe his way onto the 2021 Deathlist

I think DDP pick Nicholas Amer died in November Pretty much off radar Wikipedia quotes an obituary in The Stage 28th November

Can't afford to. Have been looking into it

I have previously stated that I believe Radio 4 to be the natural station of the Deathlist and when I heard The Last Word broadcast on 26 October two of their interviewees were both on the Deathlist: Henry Kissinger and James Randi. Henry sounded weak but coherent and James sounded quite chirpy. However as both were discussing the loss of a contempary too chirpy should not really be an option. So to start off this discussion of all things Radio 4 I have a list of all the still living presenters of the Today programme. Barry Norman (1933 - Desmond Lynam (1942 Gillian Reynolds (1935- Nigel Rees (1944- Libby Purves (1950– Jenni Murray (1950– Sue MacGregor (1941– Peter Hobday (1937– Anna Ford (1943 - Edward Stourton (1957- Carolyn Quinn (19?? - John Humphries (1943- James Naughtie (1951- Sarah Montague (1966- Evan Davies (1962- Justin Webb (1961- Barry Norman must be a consideration over the coming years

1. Daniel arap Moi (WC) 2. Ronald Atkins (WC) 3. Peter Brook (WC) 4. Eric Carle (WC) 5. William Frankland (WC) 6. 6ix9ine 7. John Andretti 8. Bob Barker 9. Stanley Baxter 10. Pope Benedict XVI 11. Earl Cameron 12. Pat Carroll 13. Jimmy Carter 14. Bob Dole 15. Chris Doleman 16. Kirk Douglas 17.Alberto Fujimori 18. Robert Fyfe 19. Mikhail Gorbachev 20. Jimmy Greaves 21. David Gulpilill 22. John Hume 23. Glynis Johns 24. Terry Jones 25. Sydney Lotterby 26. Loretta Lynn 27. Vera Lynn 28. Imelda Marco's 29. Paul Mayhew-Archer 30. Joni Mitchell 31. Willie Nelson 32. Nichelle Nichols 33. Boris Pahor 34. Javier Perez del Cuellar 35. Leslie Phillips 36. Genesis P-Orridge 37. Patricia Routledge 38. Eva Marie Saint 39. Arthur Scargill 40. George Schultz 41. Tom Smith 42. Jackie Stallone 43. Nobby Stiles 44. Peter Sutcliffe 45. Kane Tanaka 46. Peter Tobin 47. Alex Trebek 48. Murray Walker 49. Doddie Weir 50. Chitetsu Watanabe Subs Honor Blackman Bobby Charlton Olivia de Havilland Henry Kissinger Elizabeth Kelly

First work trip of the year. Cologne from Stansted Airport.

I didn't know where to post this so I have created a new thread. If a mod thinks it is already covered please move it. I was thinking about who are the general Deathlist picks so as a starting point I took my 1000 name longlist and split people up into broad categories. Almost 3/4 of the list is taken up with just 5 categories 254 - Actors 192 - Music Industry 120 - Writers 103 - Politicians 69 - Sport Where the is ambiguity I have used a judgement rather than record people twice. I don't know if this says more about me or whether peoples longlists are similar. I suppose the ultimate long list is the DDP master list. Because this is my longlist it doesn't contain the 450 names on my shortlist who are probably more likely to go.

5p

An SDP for my DDP

Unusual Suspects already doing better than 2019

He was a hit for me in 20/20. First in a long time.

1920 Fanny Waterman /Arnold Yarrow 1921 Elizabeth Kelly/ Ray Lawler 1922 Betty White/Dilip Kumar 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Freeman Dyson 1924 Zizi Jeanmaire/Gene Dietch 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Pete Murray 1926 Gudrun Ure/Leonard Fenton 1927 Mary Higgins-Clark/Frank Windsor 1928 Estelle Harris/Tommy Docherty 1929 Patricia Routledge/Eric Carle

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-son-christopher-dies-aged-95

I didn't come last.

I have got 27 uniques across two of my teams. One children's author managed to sneak by the Children',s authors theme team David McKee of Mr Benn, King Rollo & Elmer fame all the other uniques in my writers theme team do other stuff. Although Penelope Lively does both. Hoping for a better year for Unusual Suspects

Am off on work travels next week so I might have time in the hotel to compile my list before the deadline.

Paul Gascoigne Linda Nolan Dick Van Dyke Queen Elizabeth II Angela Lansbury Rolf Harris Greg Gilbert Jill Gascoine Olivia Newton-John Billy Connolly Betty White Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mikhail Gorbachev June Brown Prunella Scales Bill Turnbull Barbara Windsor Jean-Louis Trintignant Leon Spinks George Alagiah Little Richard Bob Barker Alex Trebek Olivia de Havilland Henry Kissinger Sub Lee Kerslake

If the character of Adric is meant to be a smug irritating little shit then Matthew played him to perfection.

The Director needs to realise No Oxygen = No Fire and there were fucking trees in the landscape. I didn't understand why they all needed to go on the rescue mission or how the old man actually got outside in the first place. But the threat level was there and JW seems to have calmed down a tad since last series.