There goes the neighbourhood.
Al Murray is the great nephew of Stephen Murray
But our Trivial Fact of the Week reveals that he is also the great nephew of the actor Stephen Murray.
A young person writes: Who was Stephen Murray?
Only the star of the radio comedy The Navy Lark, Sir Francis Walsingham to Glenda Jackson's Elizabeth R on television and star of such post-war films as London Belongs to Me and The Magnet.
Cliff Michelmore at Aberfan
Cliff Michelmore belonged to the generation that pioneered television presentation and still possessed a certain decency and innocence about the medium.
His heyday fell just before the point where my memories of television begin, but I do recall people like his Tonight Fyfe Robertson. He gave the impression that he did not realise he was on television or at least that he was constantly surprised to find he was.
The 50th anniversary of Aberfan, the disaster in which a coal waste tip slid down the hillside and engulfed a primary school, falls on 21 October this year. In many ways it was the first televised disaster, and I do just remember it.
This is Cliff Michelmore's report from the scene on the evening of that dreadful day.
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"The word 'Zio' was part of the club’s lexicon, despite its connotations eventually becoming widely known." Alex Chalmers on why he resigned as co-chair of Oxford University Labour Club.
Andrew Allen says the government should forget the idea of an trans-Pennine road tunnel.
Sarah Mills looks at the way the Girl Guides' evolving badge programme reveals wider changes in society over time.
"I remember crying all the way through the scene where he did the 'Singin' in the Rain' number. And my sister said, "What are you crying for?" and I said, "Well, he just seems so happy.'" Michael Koresky interviews the film director Terence Davies.
"I don’t think I have ever wanted something to happen more in sport in my entire life than for Claudio Ranieri’s side to win the Premier League," says Gary Lineker.
