Ronnie Barker is one of the all-time greats of British comedy, right up there with Tommy Cooper, the Goons, Python etc. If either Open All Hours or Porridge doesn't win this Best British Sitcom award there ain't no justice. The Two Ronnies was absolutely hilarious. I remember as a teenager literally laughing till I cried at some of the sketches and, unlike some (notably Fawlty Towers) they still bear repeating.

I seem to remember him announcing when he retired several years ago that he wasn't going to come out of retirement for anything. In the last few years, however, he's kept on popping up to promote this, that or the other but I'd be surprised if he actually made any more programmes. He surely can't need the dosh!

'Four candles' was indeed his finest hour.

Steve