i do hope we can hear nicholas parsons. i'm waiting on the other end of the line for someone to come in and speak to me. nicholas parsons, good to have you with us. your thoughts about sir bruce forsyth and your memories of him. i'm so sad, i have such fond memories. he was an exceptional personality and the most amazing entertainer. he was in many ways quite a professional and unique, he was not only a very good comedian but he was a singer and a dancer, which is the way he started, of course, and a very good actor. i saw him ina course, and a very good actor. i saw him in a play in the west end called little meat and he could do everything but not only that, he was one of the most charming, outgoing, giving professional performers i've ever met. he was just a lovely personality. he gave out to everybody he ever met. and, of course, as a game show host i can he was unique, i think he was the top of the league. he did not only run the show and keep it moving and so forth, but he engaged with the co ntesta nts forth, but he

i do hope we can hear nicholas parsons.meone to come in and speak to me. nicholas parsons, good to have you with us. your thoughts about sir bruce forsyth and your memories of him. i'm so sad, i have such fond memories. he was an exceptional personality and the most amazing entertainer. he was in many ways quite a professional and unique, he was not only a very good comedian but he was a singer and a dancer, which is the way he started, of course, and a very which is the way he started, of course, and a very good actor. i saw him ina course, and a very good actor. i saw him in a play in the west end called little meat and he could do everything but not only that, he was one of the most charming, outgoing, giving professional performers i've ever met. he was just a lovely personality. he gave out to

would you say, nicholas parsons, that he made actually quite a difficultjob look very, very easy.where is not easy. if you are a true professional, that covers up... you have the skills to make everything you do look easy and natural, which he could do. but it is very demanding. entertaining, to go out and face an audience and time lines, the art of acting is timing but comedy acting is more sophisticated timing. bruce could not only do that but had such an engaging personality, he had such warmth, he gave out to the audience, he sort of embraced them, and they came in as his friend and he talked to them on that kind of level. when i'm thinking of him now, i just think of that lovely, warm, outgiving generous personality. joining me is tv critic toby earle. ford pcv this man had. the bbc started broadcasting in 1936, he first appeared in 1939. his career is almost as old as the bbc‘s tv existence. he is a cornerstone of british broadcasting history and it's impossible to separate him from the history of british tv broadcasting. people talk about the golden age of tv. the audience