26-07-2022, 10:30 PM
(26-07-2022, 09:35 PM)Spencer Wrote:(26-07-2022, 06:28 PM)Roger Darthwell Wrote: 25 years ago today Alan Towers dramatically resigned on air from the BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es7K3LnVtW4
I’ve always thought it was a shame he did that. Why would you want to end your career on such a sour note? Hardly a classy way to bow out.
That was, I believe, copied from an episode of Drop the Dead Donkey, where the veteran newscaster Henry Davenport makes a very similar speech (albeit on stage at an awards ceremony, rather than whilst on-air).