Former BBC Breakfast host Bill Turnbull, who has revealed he is suffering from prostate cancer. Photograph: Radio Times/PA Wire
IT is sad news about my former colleague at Radio Clyde, Bill Turnbull, having cancer. When he joined the station in the 1970s there was a great deal of tittering in the newsroom when the head of news said the new trainee reporter had been to Eton. “That’ll go down like a cup of cold sick in Castlemilk” muttered one journalist.
Bill’s first radio car job, shadowing Evening Times-trained George Montgomery, was a conflagration in Possil. A crowd gathered and a snotty nosed tyke, on hearing Bill’s accent, asked: “Are you Prince Charles?” Bill’s natural empathy shone through and he became “one of the boys” in the newsroom. He has come to every Clyde reunion since the early days.
Sheila Duffy,
3 Hamilton Drive, Glasgow.
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