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March 8, 2006Posted on 03/08/2006 in Television
Preferring gardening over cricket
An amusing opening paragraph was written in the obituary for John Junkin, a TV scriptwriter and actor, who died yesterday.
In October 1998 a letter in The Times from John Junkin read: “May I confess to not being quite as upset as many people at the loss of first-class cricket by BBC Television, principally because it will give viewers a chance to see the three new series I have devised.“These consist of 26 programmes on gardening, 26 on travel and 26 on cooking, with a Christmas special in which a well-known gardener is invited to take a celebrity chef to some glamorous location and cook him.”
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