Jamie Crick, long-serving star of Classic FM who helped start Gaydar Radio – obituary
He cut a youthful figure and of his Classic FM show maintained that ‘You’ll find no snobbery here… classical music is for everyone’
He cut a youthful figure and of his Classic FM show maintained that ‘You’ll find no snobbery here… classical music is for everyone’
He performed in more than 50 Ring Cycles and, a devout Christian, he toured evangelical churches and sang at Billy Graham rallies
His record of scoring in 92 consecutive rugby league matches remains unbroken, and in 1972-73 he scored a still unmatched 221 goals
His sympathy with the islanders persisted after the conflict ended and they honoured him by naming a park near Port Stanley after him
He had four seasons with Warwickshire and then played Twenty20 in the renegade Indian Cricket League, but was linked to suspect betting
A showman and a fantasist, he kept the scale and sources of his wealth mysterious, and habitually falsified both his age and his ancestry
His ability with the ball at his feet made him the perfect keeper for a team unlike any who had gone before
Scatty but sympathetic, she manned the phones and at the door was the first port of call for writers, politicos, whistle-blowers and rogues
A prolific television actress, she played a prisoner governor in Within These Walls so convincingly that fans would ask her for legal advice
He received little money from the band apart from a small salary until he took legal action later
He presided with aplomb and political sensitivity over an empire that touched every part of South Africa’s economic life
An animal-rights activist, he compered Miss America and Miss Universe for 20 years but quit over the practice of giving fur coats as prizes
‘Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent,’ he said. ‘To think otherwise is mere sentimentality’
He supported the Russian convoys, and later converted to the Whirlwind helicopter in Hong Kong
After his mother’s incendiary memoir, Picasso told him ‘I wish you were dead,’ but Claude won out over the battling heirs to run the empire
His greatest achievement, he said, was keeping the Concorde project alive in the face of opposition from the Treasury and the DTI