RIP Cliff Michelmore

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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22205

    RIP Cliff Michelmore

    Very much part of television for those of us of a certain age band. He's had his final Tonight on Earth.
    RIP Cliff.
  • Pabmusic
    Full Member
    • May 2011
    • 5537

    #2
    I remember him crying while reporting on Aberfan.

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      #3
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Mary Chambers
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 1963

        #4
        The face of television for many years. I'm afraid I had no idea he was still alive, which makes me feel bad somehow.

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        • Richard Tarleton

          #5
          I particularly remember those folk singers he used to introduce on Tonight, some of them beyond hopeless. But here he is, introducing a certain Bob Dylan, in 1964



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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30511

            #6
            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
            Very much part of television for those of us of a certain age band. He's had his final Tonight on Earth.
            RIP Cliff.
            Quintessentially 'BBC' in those days. And pace Pabs's memory, unflappable, affable and - as far I remember - never in the headlines for the wrong reasons.
            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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            • Cockney Sparrow
              Full Member
              • Jan 2014
              • 2292

              #7
              Today - Radio 4 this morning - his son Guy said he had been driving to Waitrose until 6 weeks ago, and yesterday was sitting up in bed commenting on the brexit debate in the newspaper.....

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                #8
                Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View Post
                Today - Radio 4 this morning - his son Guy said he had been driving to Waitrose until 6 weeks ago, and yesterday was sitting up in bed commenting on the brexit debate in the newspaper.....
                - never does the expression "Way to go" seem more apt.
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Lat-Literal
                  Guest
                  • Aug 2015
                  • 6983

                  #9
                  Sad news.

                  My main memory of him is the Holiday programme. I may, though, have seen him first when "All You Need is Love" was broadcast (I was with a crowd of about 20 people by a television set in a guest house in West Wittering). Or, later, on Southern TV's evening news programme (when visiting family) which always seemed happier than what we had in the London region. Was he with Jean Metcalfe (and Katie Boyle?) on Two-Way Family Favourites? If so, that is where I would have listened to him first. Sundays, mid/late 1960s.

                  RIP Cliff Michelmore

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                  • Richard Tarleton

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                    Was he with Jean Metcalfe ... on Two-Way Family Favourites? If so, that is where I would have listened to him first. Sundays, mid/late 1960s.

                    RIP Cliff Michelmore

                    Indeed - Mrs Michelmore, no less. Good that she is topping Google searches for "jean" today They were co-presenters for 6 months before they actually met in person.

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                    • Stanley Stewart
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1071

                      #11
                      Lovely, genial personality whether on-air or off. He paired so well with Jean Metcalfe on Two Way Family Favourities, or with Fyfe Robertson (?) on Tonight. RIP

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22205

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Stanley Stewart View Post
                        Lovely, genial personality whether on-air or off. He paired so well with Jean Metcalfe on Two Way Family Favourities, or with Fyfe Robertson (?) on Tonight. RIP
                        The Tonight programme his co presenters/reporters also included Alan Whicker, Brian Redhead and Kenneth Allsop, to say nothing of Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, Chris Brasher and Polly Elwes.

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                        • Lat-Literal
                          Guest
                          • Aug 2015
                          • 6983

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                          Indeed - Mrs Michelmore, no less. Good that she is topping Google searches for "jean" today They were co-presenters for 6 months before they actually met in person.
                          Originally posted by Stanley Stewart View Post
                          Lovely, genial personality whether on-air or off. He paired so well with Jean Metcalfe on Two Way Family Favourities, or with Fyfe Robertson (?) on Tonight. RIP
                          Ah yes, thank you for this, Richard and Stanley.

                          He apparently described it as "love at first hearing" which is a very advanced sort of outlook, I feel.

                          Family Favourites - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQxzffInlc

                          Day By Day (TV) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0JcquQ96Xg

                          (I love the light touch and absence of 2016 news media hysteria)
                          Last edited by Lat-Literal; 17-03-16, 19:35.

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                          • johncorrigan
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 10424

                            #14
                            Two-way family favourites - a staple programme for Sundays, though it is ever remembered by me as the place where I first heard 'Both Sides Now' by Judy Collins. I liked and trusted Cliff Michelmore - he was kinda like a friendly neighbour from up the street.

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                            • gurnemanz
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 7415

                              #15
                              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                              Very much part of television for those of us of a certain age band. He's had his final Tonight on Earth.
                              RIP Cliff.
                              Indeed. Surprised to read that Tonight ended as early as 1965. It must have been on often in our house. I have very clear memories - especially Alan Whicker and Fyfe Robertson.

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