Loose Ends Unravelled
Saturday, 6. October 2007, 10:35:59
Peter Curran & Clive Anderson have been doing a worthwhile job since Ned's health forced him off air but Loose Ends IS Ned Sherrin as far as I'm concerned. Another unique individual gone forever.
Increasingly the media is stuffed full of bland individuals with no understanding of their history, nothing to say and an arrogant sense of self-importance.
Oh well I suppose it's a generational thing. It's certainly not evolution as I understand it.
BBC Radio 4
Ned Sherrin: A Tribute
presented by Alistair Beaton
With the news of the death of Ned Sherrin, the presenter of Loose Ends, BBC Radio 4 lost one of its best-known and longest-serving voices. Alistair Beaton presents a personal tribute to his long-term friend and colleague. For nearly 30 years the playright Alistair Beaton has been a close friend and colleague of Ned Sherrin, who died yesterday. Tonight, in tribute to one of Britain's greatest broadcasters, he offers his personal take on the peculiar genius of Ned Sherrin as revealed through twenty-two years of Loose Ends. Throughout these years, Ned Sherrin used the programme to nurture new talent and at the same celebrate the achievements of the justly famous. With excerpts that recall Ned's encyclopedic knowledge of the world of entertainment - and a few examples of his provocative wit - Alistair Beaton's Tribute to Ned Sherrin is at 6.30pm, Tuesday 2 October.
It's available via Listen Again but only for 7 days after broadcast. If you find this post some time in the future and want to hear it just leave a message and I shall upload a copy asap.
*UPDATED*
Here, as requested, is said Ned Sherrin tribute programme as broadcast on Radio 4. It's in it's original RealAudio (.ra) format to preserve space. If anyone needs advice to convert it into other formats just let me know. A seperate .sfv checksum file is available if required. I also have some editions of the programme from the last couple of years which I will upload too. Not as many as I would wish but perhaps others readers could share what they have?
| NedSherrinRadio4Tribute.zip 9.47 MB (9937740 bytes)
| NedSherrinRadio4Tribute.sfv 329 bytes (329 bytes)
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