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Simon O'Hagan

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Writing about radio at Radio Times and elsewhere. Previous life at The Times and The Independent.
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Judith Chalmers obituary

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By Simon O'Hagan Verified
| Yahoo News UK Verified
Long before people scanned Tripadvisor or started booking their own holidays, they looked to TV travel shows to tell them where to go, and foremost among these was Wish You Were Here …?, fronted by Judith Chalmers. A triumph of middlebrow escapism, the show ran on ITV for nearly 30 years, from the early 1970s to the early 2000s.
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Sir Mark Tully obituary

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By Simon O'Hagan Verified
| Yahoo News UK Verified
In 2017 Mark Tully was making a documentary for the BBC World Service to coincide with the 70th anniversary of partition – the moment that marked the end of British colonial rule in India and the creation of Pakistan. As Tully toured locations across the subcontinent, it was clear that his standing as the BBC’s “voice of India” still endured, even though he had ceased to be its correspondent in the country more than 20 years earlier.
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After Melvyn

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By Simon O'Hagan Verified
| Substack
It’s funny how when a legend retires in any field of endeavour and is immediately described as an impossible act to follow, it invariably turns out that someone does follow them, and quite often goes on to make the position their own. In radio terms the example that immediately springs to mind is I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. How could anyone hope to adequately fill the shoes of the genius who was Humphrey Lyttelton?
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