Terrence Oblong
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Death of an Obit Writer (4)
Out of the blue I got a phone call from Gary. "I hope you don't mind our changing your obit slightly," he said. "Only we spotted a couple of errors...
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Death of an Obit Writer (3)
I took to monitoring the back-end of the website regularly, to get an idea of the obits I wasn't being asked to write. The American presidential...
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Death of an obit writer (2)
Nancy was happy with the piece. She made a few tweaks in front of me, but no screaming at my incompetence or throwing my laptop out of the window,...
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Death of an obit writer (1)
"Terrence, it's Gary from The Times. Bit of a strange one for you, we'd like you to write an obituary for Neville Hartness." "The Obit writer?" "Yes...
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Karno's barmy army
Fred Karno's best comedians were in America when war broke out. Karno had hoped to break the American theatre market, but inadvertently sent over the...
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