David Frost

No!

I like David Frost.

Really? He seemed a very fit man.

Yes Gracesmum, TWTWTW opened my eyes to the fact that authority and the establishment could be challenged. It was an exciting time, wasn't it?

He'd put on a bit of weight soop.

Apparently he died of a heart attack on the Queen Elizabeth Cruise Ship , where he was going to give a speech !

It is quite strange though we were only talking with DD & SIL on Friday evening , about the film that was made about his interview with Nixon .

Spooky !

TW3 has never been rivalled. I will never forget the programme they put on following the assassination of JFK. RIP David Frost.

I thought that in the last few years he really looked quite unwell poor chap. TW3 was a flagship programme and a must for all our family. Sorry to see him go.

TW3 a favourite family programme of ours,so sad to hear this news.

I agree Anno - I remember Millicent Martin's song especially. Brave of them not to just cancel the show and to make such a strong and memorable programme. The "Frost-Nixon" film was on TV recently, naybe that's why nonu's family were talking about him.
Re "public figures" not looking well, I find it hard not to envisage them in their prime as that is how I think of them. I was shocked, for instance by the frailty of the Duchess of Kent at (I think) either Wills and Kate's wedding or Margaret Thatcher's funeral - a big service anyway. As they fade from the public eye we tend of think of them as we used to see them, don't we?

RIP

Timothy Birdsall was the cartoonist gracesmum I remember being devastated when he died, there was never any suggestion he was ill and I think he was only 26. I remember Cliff Michelmore in tears on Tonight when he announced it.

It's a bit of a shock to have David gone. He wasn't that much older than me and they all seemed so young at the time. What a pity that television has become all "celebrities", intrusive music and fancy camera work - nothing to make you think at all.

Two major figures gone within a few days: Seamus Heaney and David Frost, both giants in their fields and both only 74.

My first reaction was to say "ONLY 74, that's no age" just as my parents used to!

I thought he did not look so good in the last picture I saw of him !

74 is not the oldest , but is getting on a bit .

Oh, thanks, Nonu. Some of us are already almost there ... or thereabouts.

Too many after dinner speeches. Or rather the dinners that come first.

Not just TW3 but also The Frost Report. There's no "heir" coming along behind is there?

I don't suppose all that jetting across the Atlantic several times a week helped his health.

Gosh poor David ,!

Remember his tv heyday

My dear OH. Is 68 so no 74 not old

sad weekend Local chap passed away only 69 no friend but parent remember from primary school time sons same age as estranged daughter that was
sad.

Then my acquacise tutor mum passed away yesterday only 71 cancer

Oh hell this is morbid!

ANNO , come on you know you are a spring chicken !

Old chook, that's me.

74 is not old! I am 74!