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"Why vote, it only encourages them?"

A comedy programme broadcast on BBC Radio 2, on 3 May 1979 - the day when Labour under James Calorgas lost the election, allowing amateur theologist Mrs. Margaret Thatcherism in.

The show stars Roy Hudd, David Jason, Peter Cook, Janet Brown, Chris Emmett, Richard Ingrams, Alan Coren, Willie Rushton, Brian "Johnners" Johnstone and "the Bearded Wonder".

Thanks to Andy Walmsley and Random Radio Jottings for preserving this.

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

JOHN O’CONNOR

We return to engravings by the English wood engraver John O’Connor (1913-2004) published in People & Places, printed in 1999 by John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Herefordshire, England in an edition of 375 copies. John O’Connor’s career spanned over six decades, beginning with engravings for an edition of Joan Rutter's poems Here's Flowers in 1936. 

The wood engravings in People & Places are a compilation of engravings he created to illustrate a column in Richard Ingrams’s Oldie magazine. O'Connor produced a wood-engraving every month for the magazine from 1992 to 2001, just three years before his death. Even at the end of his career, O’Connor maintained his creative energy despite using a wheelchair and suffering from increasing deafness. In his obituary, The Guardian noted that O’Connor’s work,

is filled with a profound - almost romantic - love of the natural world. He had a pastoral vision, albeit one imbued with melancholy, at the passing of time and a changing world.

He saw his favourite painting places in Suffolk - the ponds, willows, briars and honeysuckle - disappear beneath the bulldozer and combine harvester, and eventually moved with his wife to the emptier spaces of southwest Scotland.

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An episode of The News Quiz with Ian Hislop, Paul Merton, Richard Ingrams, Alan Coren as the panellists and Barry Took as the host.

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Peter O'Toole at Richard Ingrams 70th birthday party Oldie Literary Lunch 21st August 2012

from L/R Richard Ingrams, Peter O'Toole, Marjorie Wallace, Barry Cryer and June Whitfield (photo by Neil Spence)

* Richard Ingrams/English journalist

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Peter O’Toole and Maureen Lipman at Richard Ingrams 70th birthday party Oldie Literary Lunch 21st August 2012 (photo by Neil Spence)

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Peter O'Toole and Richard Ingrams at Richard Ingrams 70th birthday party Oldie Literary Lunch 21st August 2012 (photo by Neil Spence)

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Peter O’Toole at Richard Ingrams 70th birthday party Oldie Literary Lunch 21st August 2012

from L/R Richard Ingrams, Peter O'Toole, Marjorie Wallace, Barry Cryer and June Whitfield (photo by Neil Spence)

* Richard Ingrams/English journalist

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Richard Ingrams at the Groucho Club, 1989