On This Day 1970 📺 'David Frost on Sunday' Ray Alan and Lord Charles are David's guests. In his heyday, Ray Alan, was spoken about by many as the world's greatest ventriloquist. Together with his side-kick - the boozy Lord Charles, the hoity-toity aristocrat with his put-down catchphrases, such as "Blurry fool!" and "You silly arse!", they proved to be a long-lived inspiration. The fact that his lordship's speech was drunken and slurred enabled the ventriloquist to speak with a minimum of mouth

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On This Day 1974 📺 'The Good Old Days' Ray Alan had introduced Lord Charles to his act for their joint television debut on this very same show in 1966, which was based on old-time music hall. Ray Alan and his hoity-toity aristocratic dummy Lord Charles were regulars on our television screens throughout the '70s and '80s and even up until the 1990's Alan continued to appear on television in Britain. He was a survivor, who approached his work with diligence, but without sentiment. As a guest, he