In 1969 I was involved in setting up Libyan TV. The programme controller fancied himself as a presenter and I will always remember him reading the Arabic translation of episodes of Trumpton while Brian Cant’s voice played in the background. Later I got to know Brian when he came into a TV studio where his wife, Cherry, was working on the team. He was one of the nicest, most unpretentious people I ever came across and when my children met him he put them completely at their ease.
