Passages
Posted in Doctor Who, Events dear boy. Events, Politics, Television at 19:52 on 31 January 2017
From the Show Business world of my youth, Mary Tyler Moore.
From the Politics of my young adulthood, asker of the West Lothian Question, hounder of Thatcher over the sinking of the General Belgrano, a real thorn in the side of the establishment, Tam Dalyell. His home The House of the Binns is now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland. The good lady and I visited there a few years ago now and saw Tam at a distance. He looked frail. We did, though, later strike up a conversation with his wife, Kathleen Wheatley, over armorial china of all things, and she seemed a very down to earth person.
Well-known actor, a memorable Caligula in I, Claudius, also The Naked Civil Servant, The Elephant Man and Doctor of sorts, John Hurt.
Mary Tyler Moore: 29/12/1939 – 25/1/2017. So it goes.
Thomas (Tam) Dalyell: 9/8/1932 – 26/1/2017. So it goes.
John Vincent Hurt: 22/1/1940 – 25/1/2017. So it goes.
Tags: General Belgrano, John Hurt, Kathleen Wheatley, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Tyler Moore, National Trust for Scotland, Tam Dalyell, The House of the Binns, West Lothian Question
