Stephen Tall

RIP David Frost. Here’s the TW3 sketch I’ll remember him for

By | Sun 1st September 2013 - 12:45 pm

Sir David Frost – satirist, interviewer, writer – has died. Here’s my favourite That Was The Week That Was sketch, in which he and Willie Rushton excoriated Conservative home secretary Henry Brooke. It concludes with the brutal pay-off: “If you’re Home Secretary, you can get away with murder”.

* Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.

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  • Alastair McDonald 1st Sep '13 - 8:58pm

    Funny, isn’t it? Even in 50 years things haven’t changed 🙁

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