[BITList] Denis Norden has died..

[John Feltham]

G'day Folks,

From a correspondent…

You must remember him? 



I do. A fine raconteur and speaker.

And in at the beginning of BBC comedy shows that rolled out after WW II.


 
ooroo




He joined the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and was a wireless operator with a signals unit. His writing career began in the Royal Air Force when he wrote for troop shows. Whilst preparing for one of these shows in 1945, Norden, accompanied by fellow performers Eric Sykes and Ron Rich, went to a nearby prison camp in search of stage lighting; the camp turned out to be the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which had recently been liberated by the Allies. Norden, Sykes and Rich organised a food collection amongst their comrades to feed the starving camp inmates.







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