Ray Alan croaks it!
A GENERATION OF British folk can remember three TV channels, test cards and nearly-all-day religious programmes on a Sunday. There was absolutely nothing on during the day except horse racing. Families used to stay in to watch a Saturday night film and all those variety shows as the valves in the sets got hotter and hotter before the 11 o'clock shutdown.
But a fairly regular face was a ventriloquist. Nowadays hardly anybody knows what a ventriloquist is. But this guy was the best. Ray Alan and his drunken Lord Charles, complete with monocle. He was great. Look up a sketch on Youtube where Lord Charles is trying to become a ventriloquist to see how clever and funny he was.
I cant help thinking how many messages of condolence the Queen has received from some foreign leaders who have heard that 'Lord Charles' is no more.