Yorkshire RoseYou know, the good folks of my adoptive county are so full of themselves sometimes…

'Appen today is Yorkshire Day.

Toasts 2008

I should like to raise a toast to the following people who died in 2008:

Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt
1927–2008
BBC
 
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
1930–2008
Guardian
 
Mary Pickles
Mary Pickles
1926–2008
Gruts
 
Kathy Staff
Kathy Staff
1928–2008
BBC
 
Oliver Postgate
Oliver Postgate
1925–2008
BBC
 
Paul Newman
Paul Newman
1925–2008
BBC
 
Ronnie Drew
Ronnie Drew
1934–2008
BBC
 
Simon Gray
Simon Gray
1936–2008
Guardian
 
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1918–2008
Guardian
Charles Wheeler
Charles Wheeler
1923–2008
BBC
 
Edward Lorenz
Edward Lorenz
1917–2008
Guardian
 
George Carlin
George Carlin
1937–2008
BBC
 
Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley
1928–2008
BBC
 
Humphrey Lyttelton
Humphrey Lyttelton
1921–2008
BBC
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston
1924–2008
BBC
 
Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark
1927–2008
BBC
Brian Wilde
Brian Wilde
1927–2008
BBC
 
Arthur C Clarke
Arthur C Clarke
1917–2008
Guardian
 
Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella
1954–2008
Guardian
Carol Barnes
Carol Barnes
1944–2008
BBC
 
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider
1932–2008
BBC
 
Jeremy Beadle
Jeremy Beadle
1948–2008
BBC
 
Bobby Fisher
Bobby Fisher
1943–2008
BBC
 
Sir Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Hillary
1919–2008
BBC
Sir John Harvey-Jones
Sir John Harvey-Jones
1924–2008
BBC