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[A regular on many radio and TV programmes, Hoggart chaired Radio 4's The News Quiz
for 10 years before 2006. He published 20 books and anthologies
and became a regular figure on the festival circuit.]





[Simon Hoggart, one of the wittiest and most distinctive writers
on the Guardian and Observer for 45 years,
has died from pancreatic cancer,
it was announced on Sunday.
He was 67 and had managed to work and lead
an active social life for three and a half years after
being told his condition would prove fatal.]

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...nalist-dies-67



Great Man
He will be missed

[Z]

Rest in peace