Piers Plowright obituary: Tributes to BBC and Hampstead icon | Hampstead Highgate Express

Piers Plowright and Poh Sim on Hampstead Heath
- Credit: Antoinette Eugster
Piers Plowright was the "most amazing listener", a lover of music, books and art, and most of all the sort of man who would march a gaggle of sleepy children up Parliament Hill in order to give them a precious memory or two.
The BBC radio producer died aged 83 in July, and he is remembered by his wife Poh Sim, family and friends as a figure like no other. 
Piers Plowright, one of Hampstead's most distinctive characters
- Credit: Lucy Tizzard
One of his three children, Natasha, told the 

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