Obit: BBC journalist Charles Wheeler (July 2008)

Subject: Obit: BBC journalist Charles Wheeler
From: Victor in Mapperton
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 06:03 PM

Sir Charles Wheeler, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most popular foreign correspondents, has died. He was 85.

Charles died at his home on Friday morning from lung cancer.
Sir Charles was chief US correspondent from 1969 to 1973, when he was made Europe correspondent. In the 1950s, he worked as a correspondent in Germany and South Asia.

In the US, Sir Charles covered the assassination of Martin Luther King, Beatlemania, and Watergate. He also worked for Newsnight for 15 years and was a Panorama producer.

Subject: RE: Obit: BBC journalist Charles Wheeler
From: Victor in Mapperton
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 06:10 PM

Actor Clive Hornby who played Jack Sugden has also died aged 63.

Clive played Jack in the tv show Emmerdale. He enjoyed success as a drummer with pop group The Dennisons in the 1960s. The band were played on the same bill as The Beatles at Liverpool's famous Cavern Club.
Clive appeared in various television productions including Gerry Anderson's Space 1999.

Subject: RE: Obit: BBC journalist Charles Wheeler
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Jul 08 - 04:10 PM

Here is the Guardian obit for Charles Wheeler.

Good man. I hadn't realised till reading this that he was Boris Johnson's father-in-law. That must have been an interesting relationship at times...