Another sad day for those of us on the sitting on the tail end of the baby boom as another one of our childhood entertainers shuffles off this mortal coil. Ventriloquist
Terry Hall, creator of
Lenny the Lion died on 4 April, though the news seems only now to have leaked out.

Terry Hall, 1926-2007These days it's small beer, but when I was a kid, this sort of stuff was the staple of telly entertainment. You could rarely if ever see Terry Hall's lips move. Good stuff.