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[DoctorStrangelove]

Stephanie "Steve" Shirley, 91.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/dame-steph...143435670.html

[Snooky]

Biddy Baxter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c844nlk731go
Her coffin will be made from sticky-backed plastic and a cornflake box.

Will she be laid to rest in a time capsule in the Blue Peter garden?

[northernladuk]

One of the sounds of my childhood.

As if by magic...

RIP Mr Benn/ Ray Brooks.

qh

Sad but 'Brooks's sons added: "Although only 13 episodes were made, they were repeated twice a year for 21 years." Wowzers!! I had no idea. Only 13 episodes! And did they get their money's worth from them.

McKee wrote and animated (with Ian Lawless) thirteen Mr Benn episodes for the BBC between 1971 and 1972. These episodes were repeated twice a year for 21 years with further repeats airing in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2000.

That's crazy. You'd have thought with this concept you could just keep spinning out new story lines forever

[WTFH]

Biddy Baxter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c844nlk731go
Her coffin will be made from sticky-backed plastic and a cornflake box.

[quackhandle]

One of the sounds of my childhood.

As if by magic...

RIP Mr Benn/ Ray Brooks.

qh

[GJABS]

Benn and gone. Ray Brooks, voice of Mr Benn, dies aged 86
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp899lyj2m3o
No news on the shopkeeper.

[NickFitz]

Jim Lovell, who guided Apollo 13 safely back to Earth, dies aged 97

[WTFH]

I read one her spy novels written after she retired. She might have been a good spy but she was a terrible writer.

Better or worse than Peter Wright's "Spycatcher"?

[DoctorStrangelove]

I read one her spy novels written after she retired. She might have been a good spy but she was a terrible writer.

Thanks for that: one or other of her tomes has sat on one of my many bookshelves for decades. .

[cojak]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...5-dies-aged-90

Stella Rimington, 90

I read one her spy novels written after she retired. She might have been a good spy but she was a terrible writer.

[ladymuck]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...5-dies-aged-90

Stella Rimington, 90

[NickFitz]

James Whale: Radio and TV personality dies aged 74 - BBC News

[DoctorStrangelove]

More about Tom.

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-862431

[NickFitz]

Tom Lehrer, 97

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...hrer-dead.html

Poisoning pigeons in the park will never be the same now

A sad loss. Only 97! That's no age, really

A reminder that in 2022, he placed all his music and lyrics in the public domain and relinquished all rights thereto: https://tomlehrersongs.com/

[ladymuck]

Tom Lehrer, 97

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...hrer-dead.html

Poisoning pigeons in the park will never be the same now