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This week
FridayÌý17ÌýFebruaryÌý2006
Matthew BannisterÌýtells the life stories of people who have recently died. This week: Jackie Pallo, Harry Mister, Ernest Dudley and Michael Gilbert
Jackie Pallo
Wrestler who has died aged 79Ìý
In his book You Grunt, I'll Groan Jackie Pallo exposed the fixing behind wrestling matches.ÌýAfter star billing on ITV World of Sport on Saturday afternoons in the 60s and 70s he went on to appear in pantomime and tv series including Are You Being Served and The Avengers. The creator of that Avengers episode Roger Marshall andÌýSimon Garfield -author of The Wrestling - profile Jackie Pallo.
Harry Mister
Peace campaigner who has died aged 92
Matthew Bannister visits Housmans Bookshop near King's Cross to hear about the life-long campaigner Harry Mister from his daughter Val Burton, Albert Beale editor of Peace News which has its headquarters at Housmans, Walter Wolfgang vice president of CND and Dick Stabbins, former trustee of the London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard which was based there.Ìý
Ernest Dudley Creator of the radio detective Dr Morelle who has died aged 97
Matthew Sweet has had tea with Ernest Dudley every week for the past five years. He remembers a man whose interests led him into acting, journalism - one of the pieces Dudley filed as 'society correspondent' for the Daily Mail was the story of the dance step he invented with Fred Astaire, crime fiction writing and presenting the radio series The Armchair Detective, and finally marathon running.
Michael Gilbert
Crime writer who has died aged 93
Fellow novelist Simon Brett discusses the career of the solicitor who used to write most of his novels on the commuter train.ÌýHis most famous book Smallbone Deceased was picked out by HRF Keating as one of the best 100 crime and mystery novels ever published.
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