Travel. Just look at the a 14 Murphy just before Savoy circus says a broken down vehicle and traffic the cameras from the northern bound about the back of the queue now just above the northern boundary just solid traffic approaching this Poken down vehicle most about delays only a 40 coming into town and there's another player has a collision at the Midway underpass which is causing queues and underneath the a 40 from the Shepherd's Bush Television Center up towards north pole the road looking really slow because of some road works and the m $25.00 anticlockwise is busy around junction $25.00 at Enfield on the cheap the circle Hammersmith and City and district lines all have severe delays London Overground have surveyed to laze high brain is linked into gospel like there's more travelled with Bobby at 1230 on digital radio 94.9 f.m. And on b.b.c. Sounds this is love this is b.b.c. Radio London. And this is Russell call. This the rock Rover Boster as we know now I don't expect you to know the answer to this because it's pretty obscure We don't even know if it ever actually know what nudity and drugs in Hampstead were and I'm sure that as a bandstand. This is in the ironic star starting it doesn't ring a bell although I suppose if you're going to have an event like the whole Queen would be the band that you would choose I would hope the 1st gig oversaw when I was 11 was when. I think we really everybody else was stoned not me I was 11 and most people started seriously and only went because they'd bought silver machine solution machine was probably the 5th single it was bought and they didn't play still the machine played dangerously loud lots of strobes and lots of naked people I haven't been the same since the. If I didn't know about this listen I'm not I know it's only live in their homes tonight I'm 81 I don't know why I didn't I. To hear it all go but no it doesn't ring a bell at all I mean the bandstands been used for various things over time the Jefferson Airplane pay their one year they did in 1968 well and they start a regular sort of you know hippy kind of events throughout the $68.00 Lisa Lisa this is an early seventy's but I think drugs in unity you know in the title might just typically self-reliant but no never never heard of I'd like to hear more. So that's the group that we haven't got very much on but that's not what your head's to know I thought oh well You've Lost That Loving Feeling why that why now well it is 55 years old this week and it's the most played record of the 20th century it is after seriously more so. Than white Christmas and Happy Birthday To You are the only 2 that made bigger amounts of royalties and it was released this week in 1964 so it makes it 656555 years old thankfully younger than us by the Righteous Brothers they were they were righteous but they were not brothers and it was written by a Brill Building team of Barry man and Cynthia while and all also convicted murderer Phil Spector was on there as well so it's a Phil Spector production that wall of sound all talk about that but as I say it was number one here it was number one in America it's been the same record he's been in our top 13 separate times to the he's a unique thing it's been rereleased you know we've seen of it in various films and things like that and there are 3 versions of it that have made so let me set a little quiz at the top of the contribution 3 versions of it in the top in the charts the top 50 actually one is by the Righteous Brothers those by Cilla Black whose is the 3rd. So I realize you won't know I didn't know until I checked it out that people out there may reach for the Guinness Book of hit singles and unsexy in or something but yes it's that kind of record it was some of the charts it's a shoe throw being valid it's the most erotic between men on record she said that Vanity Fair magazine said quite a good good thing well most people would say it's one of the best records ever made Phil Spector thought it was the best record he made until he made river details in high about 2 years later on but it is a fantastic record and I think I've played it a lot it's been covered many many times but as a say only 3 times as it entered the charts a big hit for hole the notes in the 1980 was their 1st kind of away from blue eyed soul more in severity sort of nice radio friendly stuff and it was the thing that got them back and had a hit for a few years but it was the massive hit for the Righteous Brothers who would sue blue eyed Californian boys Bobby Hatfield has that high tenor he's not really never dence on this record except for that kind of call response thing at the end and the main voice is the deep sort of gruff baritone of a guy called Bill Medley people remember him from a song that he did for the movie Dirty Dancing which was I've had that sort of at the time of my life as being the one here so he has that sort of gruff he's still with us but we had Phil sadly died in 2003 but they were they were sort of blue eyed soul do you go from cut from Los Angeles and played the clubs in Los Angeles and didn't really get anywhere that sort of few local hits as you can in America you can have a few hits in Los Angeles but be absolutely completely unknown anywhere else in the country and their big break was when Phil Spector record producer of Tycoon a teen he spotted them when they opened for the role next there were next to one of his groups there on his record label in fact he married the lead singer of the run it's your maker Ronnie Spector and so. He signed them up and they were the 1st white group that he signed to his label head. Don't label call Phil is named after he Phil and his business Bob's your Uncle Les of they put the names together and Phyllis and they'd had the run x. In the crystals but that kind of girl group thing was a wall of sound thing was really all over by 964 which is kind of where the where we are it was recorded in October 64 and released in November and December here so they got the Righteous Brothers were sort of unknown playing clubs and then they got spotted for this t.v. Show there's a t.v. Show called shindig which was not. It was a British team no it was created by Jack good Ok we were created oh boy we have big big t.v. Show here and then he went to America and it was sort of a live show and they had 2 featured acts on one with the Righteous Brothers and one was Glen Campbell and so that's where Glen Campbell got the star as well they also had been of top pop acts of the day and the backing group the sort of the house band were called the shin dogs which is a terrible name in the lead by a piano player call Russell Bridges who when he decided he'd have enough of playing in session groups he change his name to Leon Russell that was of his so he was a member of this sort of feta group called The Wrecking Crew people called in the Wrecking Crew now sort of a fairly select bunch of musicians who played on virtually every record that was made in Los Angeles in the 1960 s. And they are the people that are on this record with the with the Righteous Brothers in this wall of sound they were Phil Spector's chose the musicians and so Phil Spector had signed this group called the Righteous Brothers and he wanted to to launch them with a big song so we approached a songwriting Barry man and Cynthia while and they were from a group we call them Brill Building song at the buildings in New York in fact this is all done in Los Angeles with Bill Brill burnings in New York and he's at 69 seen Broadway and then there was another building directly across 1650 people would weigh and the sorts of people that were literally in cubicles that had a piano and a desk and as Burt Bacharach said in his old bugs. And their condition of the didn't work in the window you couldn't open it and all these tiny cubicles and all day long sort of tensile 69 to 5 whatever was your schedule people like. Leiber and Stoller Gerry Goffin and Carole King Neil Sedaka Neil Diamond Jeff Berry and Ellie Greenwich Doc Pomus and Morton going into detail of that sort of 30 percent of the greatest songs of the 2nd half of the 20th century all made in these couple of buildings in New York one of these songwriting Geos was a sane man and while and they and they are written songs are on Broadway Saturday Night At The Movies looking through the eyes of love we got to get out this place a my favorite which was who put the bump in the bump bump bump who put the ram in the ram or llama ding dong which is the mother as well and so I work in this office and Phil Spector approaches them to write you know a big big song he wants a fantastic song. For their new signing this the Righteous Brothers so he flies them Manuel and their dog an Alsatian out to Los Angeles put them up in the best hotel in times for the Chateau Marmont which is a very Venice I've been to a wedding they're actually very nice place and so they took the inspiration from the 4 Tops latest song which was cool baby I need to love in sort of took it lyrically and thematic Lee and they decided to write a big ballad about someone's desperate attempt to rekindle a lost love and so they came up with this line you never close your eyes anymore when I click your lips which is the 1st line machine or used Barry Manilow or use that in other songs way written reactivated that and then he's his wife there I'm at there a married couple she came up with a line You've Lost That Loving Feeling still let's just put out there we'll find something better for that later on but let's just put that in there and Phil Spector said you can't be mad that's the best line in the whole thing so that became the title for the song Phil Spector added You know the Gone Gone Gone world and then later on. He added in that sort of famous is almost like coda where it goes with the piano goes down the Done done done and it comes back you know me that's Phil Spector they put it all together and they took it to the Righteous Brothers and the righteous bread brothers didn't like it because it was pitch very high Bill Bradley has got a really low voice and they thought it sounded like a song that the Everly Brothers would do and they say well are great songs we have these not not for us so gradually they lowered the key so that it fits you this v. Baritone voice and they had to do it for keys down from f. To see I read I don't quite I mean but in the end it fitted his voice and each time it just sounded better and better Sure give it a go yes please. You. Know Does still sound fantastic he through a through the kitchen sink at it from a production point where everything is and that was a normal kind of competition amongst Spector was always looking at what the Beatles were doing and what Brian Wilson was doing in some way and that coming 964 that's Autobahn 1964 and it was the record that inspired the phrase wall of sound no one really used that before was coined by Andrew Oldham of the Rolling Stones manager but basically what happens there is you pack to student with musicians you turn everything up to just 11 will mostly get into the red but it's not that they all play the same thing they ought so what you have the the bass there that bit that comes back and it goes boom boom boom you've got electric bass they're played by Carol Kaye who's the only female member of the wrecking crew that's then doubled by a double bass and then the left hand of the piano also plays domed So they're all playing the same thing but giving it different sounds and then you put loads of out you do that about 8 times you put loads of echo on it and then that's how you. A wall of sound so it's actually quite clever but it's very primitively recorded in mono and on a 4 track machine in 1964 but it cleaned up digitally I'm sure but I've been listening to a lot in last few days and it is you know pretty good playing Campbell's in there all those kind of top players are in there and it was always having a lot of people of cover Elvis I don't know how to hit with it but basically he he did it as part of his live show so it's on those kind of Vegas live album things lots of lots of people of color I've got a very nice version very unusual version actually Barbara Bertha flack and Donny Hathaway that was worth a listen and then I'm plenty that aren't Westlife I suggest you swerve that one. That's not the he didn't trouble the charts should I give that question so I don't care because no one has come up with that we have a follow up one number one hit got to number 47 the number one hit was called if in early 1975 and it was by Kojak telling us if I had to tell he said I was your follow up if was a granted spoken word version or just sing the chorus actually. Of You've Lost That Loving Feeling Well that's number $47.00 thankfully were we were directed that in 1975 that would be. So the Righteous Brothers version cost $35000.00 which was an unheard of amount of the times it was all those musicians there was 2 or 3 sessions for that there 2 or 3 sessions for the vocals so it took 8 hours just over again $39.00 takes to get there you know that bit dumb over a period of 2 days and then there were some background singers and then there was a string section out of the background singers are some of the some of Dolly Love who was one of the singles that Phil Spector use a lot and also Phil Spector assistant was Sonny Bono to him so that his girlfriend Cheryl in the Star-K. Xeon aka Cher is in the background of singing somewhere you can't quite hear it's a bit muddy but she's in there on the stand and there's so put some strings on so it was just the kitchen sink really was and most people thought that it was on the wrong speed so they played it back to the songwriters man and Berry man and Cynthia while and they said you got on the wrong speed Phil and he said you have to get the engineer from the shooters say that's how it's meant to sound in fact a lot of radio stations wouldn't play because they thought it was a bit of a dirge and the other thing was it's 3 minutes 50 seconds long which is long for the 3 minutes would generally be your cutoff because they need to you know the more the shorter the records the more ads you can program on American radio in particular and they wouldn't play it when they worked out how long it was on the label Phil Spector put 3 minutes and 5 seconds to allow it to get played on the radio it was actually 350 and when they worked that out they stopped playing it because it would make them over run forever the news and things like that it's very clever So anyway it came out the states it went Sue went to number one they were on this national t.v. Circle shindig So a great advert they went to number one they're here it was released in January 65 and it debuted number 35 on the charts and it did eventually get to number one but you have the very bizarre scenario in early February 1965 where the Righteous Brothers were number one with You've Lost That Loving Feeling And at number 2. You was Cilla Black With You've Lost That Loving Feeling really exactly the same song. You know just black had that kind of Korea where you just look at whatever songs Bacharach and David or American songwriters put out and states and immediately did a cover version don't talk to Dionne Warwick about to the black because she just nicked tools Dionne Warwick's greatest songs and did versions will anyone who had a heart or Alfie they're all deal more exams in the states Sorry deal more which it's very funny about that and so she repeated the strategy be loving thing but it is terrible and if you don't have a voice now then have the voice I listen to a couple times and you know I'd say swerve that one but the fact is she was here she was managed by Brian Epstein she was available for Top Of The Pops and so she got and she was from Liverpool that were kind of the magic things in 16465 so she had the much bigger hits than get to number one and then what happened was Andrew Oldham who was the manager of the Rolling Stones he put advertisement in the Melody Maker and other magazines saying actually saying what a great song it is because he was a Pole but the fact that Cilla Black was a fact effectively beating the Righteous Brothers to the top and he begged Phil Spector to send these guys over and so they came over for a week and just did loads of shows t. Top Of The Pops Ready Steady Go a show called The Beat room there on the television for you know continuously for about 2 weeks and they overtook Cilla Black and quite rightly got to number one in one of these adverse he described Andrew Oldham describe the song as a wall of sound which is where we get that from he said it's it's the last word in tomorrow's sound today exposing the overall mediocrity of today's music industry it's a wall of sound he said sprocket p.s.c. On next week's Ready Steady Go I think he might have a financial interest in it somewhere whatever so yes so it went it went so went to the top of the charts. And they didn't really follow it up they didn't the didn't know what to do how do you follow up that kind of record they had a song call you almost soul and inspiration which is almost exactly like You've Lost That Loving Feeling only slightly better but it is actually a better song I think and so they didn't Phil Spector wouldn't release it and then a few more hits you know of the on show a melody was a big hit at the time and then it was in Ghost oversea awful film Ghost and it was number one again in 1919 is country they split up and they you know played Vegas and got together on a big hit in the seventy's your soul inspiration was it was a big hit in 66 I fell out with Phil Spector and did that themselves and then they were just on the cabaret circuit and Last Vegas and then in the mid eighty's. Bill Medley we did this we had a number one with Jennifer Warnes a song called I've had some my life which was from soppy a much loved film Dirty Dancing and then as I say Unchained Melody went back someone when it was in soapy and much loved film Ghost and so they're still apparently Phyllis died in 2003 but they are playing in Las Vegas tonight to be in Las Vegas he's found another righteous brother a guy called Bucky and they're still doing it $100.00 shows a year in d.c. You know. And that's and Bill Medley 79 and still doing it and still has a pretty good voice actually of Phil Spector but we'll to go see movies he's in the life life for murder life in prison he will be eligible for parole to 2020 but as I say it is the most played most lucrative song on the radio and so the song writers Barry man and Cynthia while they have been married since 1961 and still are and I assume are extremely wealthy on the on the results are you going to continue because it was it did you say the best selling it's the most played song on radio it's been played about 12000000 times on radio since it was 1st released in all its forms for 1000000 and one because we just played played here. Thank you. See. Fleetwood Mac. Of course some don't stop Ansen said some more sad news we discussed the sad passing of Gary Rhodes earlier today where I was just telling us I was really nice to my mom once software was on the shirt took my mom to his restaurant and he really looked after it was lovely and now he just said that Jonathan Miller has died theater director rights. Polymath it really was in every sense he was also a neighbor of mine he lived literally just up the road and he was very much a neighbor of Alan Bennett and the like one of the great kind of theatrical figures of this city and also a doctor. So there you are Jonathan Miller sadly has died. And if anyone has the Telly Savalas version of You've Lost That Loving Feeling please keep it to yourself let me remind you we're still trying to find out about this naked festival in Hampstead in not in a this there is evidence that it existed on the Internet I mean it's really just in a list of festivals but no one we can find who would admit to having been there plus we're trying to get some information on this metal that was given by an old Sila to a young boy Moules did back in the sixty's and he'd love to know what it's a medal from to might give him a bit more information about the nice gentleman who gave it to him so if you can help us with any of those it's own 807312000. I want to talk we're going to be joined by Ralph tell who's going to come in and sing for us he's got a new album out which is fantastic he's a lovely chap as well reflect so so he'll will be he will be here. In about half an hour from now but at this moment at $1230.00 it's time for the news headlines. Under saddle it's a motion the Labor has accused the conservatives of negotiating a secret trade deal with the United States to open up the n.h.s. To American pharmaceutical companies Jeremy Corbin's produced 451 pages of what he says are uncensored government documents that show that talks are a very advanced stage and he says they leave Boris Johnson's repeated denials that the n.h.s. Is out for sale in absolute tatters Britain's best known chefs have been paying tribute to their colleague Gary Rhodes following his death at the age of 59 Born in South London he owned a record 5 Michelin stars and was a well known face on t.v. Shows like Master Chef Jamie Oliver says he was an incredible ambassador for British cooking and James Martin says he was a gent and a genius and the theatre director writer and actor Jonathan Miller has died today at the age of $85.00 Miller who shot to fame as part of the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with Peter Cook Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett had a lengthy career that took in medicine broadcasting books and the theatre and the director of a film about 2 rival gang members in south London has criticised the decision by the view cinema chain to cancel all screenings Andrew who's known as rat man insists Blue story is about love not violence and he's been left wondering whether there are hidden reasons for the ban but View says following a major fight in Birmingham and more than 20 other incidents at cinema showing the film it owes a duty of care to its staff and customers lenders whether showery but stay mild with top temperatures of 12 degrees Celsius that is 54 degrees Fahrenheit now with the b.b.c. Radio London travel has public air. Thanks well in. A 4 Sorry my page is discomforting that the heading west I'm going to. Just before The Voice because with congestion back to the nor the roundabout so slow moving past the vehicle. To see all the way coming back into town and Perry. Coming into town there was a collision one lane is still closed just off the Midway underpass that the 2 i Pod south. Are Mr actions in place at Canadian Avenue Canadian avenues Also I close eastbound So the right hand lane into Canadian Avenue. 5 is closed now on the chief. Suspended high street Kensington's at my right the rest of the line running with severe delays. In City and London between high. And central line running with minor delays late in starting to Epping and Woodford . As well popular Caribbean Sea ready London next update a softer one. In the city with the celebrating. In. Its position and the fact. That the Westies family status is basically. His mom is now. How do. You see. How Dave. And grooming the way with crisp stuff on the kitchen table with the physics when. You caught in the city podcast. If we listen to the series. Of course. Will be here in about an hour from now or just under an hour from now the last half an hour my show today will involve rough Mathilde coming in to sing for us is a lovely chap rough listed Londoner as I remember and he's got a new album out which I have in my hands called hill of beans it don't amount to a hill of beans and he says he produced by Tony Visconti I believe so we'll get him in will play a check from that and more games play live track as well before we do this is the band or on my show yesterday the Chinese scholar brassica rezone I get very mixed up in life or was it Monday Monday that I thought it was me who was on yesterday I . Just wish I had a memory of any kind whatsoever anyway oh gizmo over relish was on your sleeves a good song in Spanish and it was very nice indeed a Monday it was a bank to change scope resecure came in here a buncha lads a mile lads a quite young from south east London all went to school together down in Lewisham or New Cross or depth little Somewhere down there I made my December cold Skinner s k w n i this is a track from it called unwind. The This. Group unless a good sound to my ears that is that's the sound of live skull while they were live on my show on Q.'s day and that cold chain scar brassica there in much of London band and their skin I'm talking about Scott Hall So all of in its early incarnations you can hear an interview with Suggs tomorrow sucks for madness of course because Magnus is celebrating 40 years in the music business and I know the interview is good because I did it this morning it was prerecorded Suggs wasn't available to do it tomorrow and if you see. Many madness billboards Apparently they put up billboards all over Camden celebrating 4 years of madness and they doing those 3 gigs coming up at the Roundhouse they get their past present and future I don't know which one to go to they're going to different set of Ning he said and. I really do think the madness on one of the great London bands I think they're very much in the tradition of injury in the blockades in the kinks and all of that and. And a great great live band as well as far as I'm concerned anyway so tomorrow we're on the interview Woodstock celebrating 40 years of insanity well. In. Fact Larry's band then zoom in here on the Robin Show on b.b.c. Radio London I don't think we're going to get anything on the metal we have contacted some mental specialists and they will get back to us but it might not be in time today for the show so hopefully either tomorrow or you know later in the way called maybe even next Wednesday on nights inquiries we will get an answer to what that medal is from providing they recognise it and they're the big specialists and experts on that but we don't think that we're going to get it today. Some a lot of people come up with other theories on the middle let me read some of those out someone said that I think it could be Mexican but it's not a Mexican illegal Mexican Eagle has a a snake in its mouth I'm very sure I know the Mexican eagle so I don't think it's a Mexican medal someone else says it looks Arabic in style and the ribbon is green and white the colors of the Muslim religion could it be anything to do with that someone else said. It's definitely German because they had green and white kind of ribbons on German medals I've got no idea if it's true so we have got an expert on the case but as I said I don't think we're going to get an answer to that so and as for this festival in Hampstead we can't find anyone who was there or remembers it or any link to it. I'm just going to give you the details of that one more time in case in the next 50 minutes we can come up with it it was 90 we got the date it was 1982 a car is someone in a comedy exactly some 1992 and. Meant to be top of the Bill Rogers by moment to be plying But when bought it and had that motto stand stark stand on the stand I guess is the bandstand and then Star meaning make it because of I'm supposed to take their clothes off and stoned while I presume you'll know what that's about and. And death it's in the records as having existed but we can't find any anybody us any memory of it I suppose it is a real possibility right that thousands of you were there but you just can't remember. Because you're a stone. I Brown I'd go by Van Morrison but then back to that mental I'm going to read out the original query it went like this and it came. Came from one of my listeners who is William and William says I was born in 961 and I've longed to solve this mystery for over 50 years in the sixty's you moved into bow Mall Road in wills the next door was an elderly couple the Tylers Mr Tyler was known to me as pop title Pop Eater. I used to walk to the shops at the end to collect his pension and do his errands he occasionally mention the war but he gave me a medal see photo attached and I'm invited recollection he said he got it from a German soldier but that might mean a story made up of I've only remembered over the years I've Choi to identify the medal without any success and help to solve this mystery will be appreciated well on the line now is Rohan me who's a medal expert from the love of London mental company Good morning to you run it all off the noon Technically I did indeed Yes So you've seen a picture of this metal What can you tell us I can tell you I simply said It's a challenge she was so. Obviously 1930 is actually looking at it because the German Eagles on only just self. And the German Association had a large interest in hunting in marksmanship just one of the many associations which potentially could have come from a German soldier indeed. It's just a badge it should be a wall and office has been passed over so it's not an official military medal it's an essential military metal Knight And so it's a German ship so the guy obviously had been a shooter probably in civilian life yes I mean he would have carried this medal with him or whatever just had to scatter around on his possessions but it's typical kind of thing you know that they join many organizations to test their marksmanship unoiled treats the skill of them also ship and that's exactly what it's rice and how would you know is that right I mean I realize your business but it's actually from the ribbon to itself the object such I can't exactly tell which I mean it's from but it's one of many variants all of the same which you just know that they all fall if not exactly Westfall right so we reckon not in German shoot in Kabul some sort of award for shooting absolutely correct and that's what it is yes Ron thank you very much and and it is it is still a thing that could have been taken off of the German soldiers it very well could be I mean why want to be carrying out the set is unofficial It's not something that would have worn the uniform even though you never know the circumstances he may have had in his inside pocket or maybe just you know. Just told to just get a slight change at the top there's no guarantee on any of that but the thing is it is a German shooting war and it certainly could take a lot in 36 well and thank you very very much absolute pleasure you just solve the 50 mystery and that was solved by Roy and me there's a medal expert from along the medal company. We so it. Should have asked him if he ever went to Hampstead in. Like. The. Because to. Get the kids out. You want to be way out in. The. Doll Yeah you. Hear on the rubber and show on b.b.c. Radio London coming up on my particular program in the last half an hour we're going to be joined by the always splendid Ralph McTell playing live. And then at 130 Joe Good will be joining us. Of Lost Middle East of what Joe's got. But you know it will be Joe goodish. Oh what joy. Remember. Me. She's right Smith. A minute. Well that worked well. 95.9 f.m. . B.b.c. Radio. 1 o'clock. Strongly rejected claims that health care has been discussed in trade talks with the Us The Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn says he has hundreds of pages of evidence showing the n.h.s. Is at risk our system political is Norman Smith the documents which are basically a summary of the outcome of 6 meetings over the past 2 years between u.s. And u.k. Trade officials revealed that on the u.s. Side they want total market access to the n.h.s. They also want something called negative listing everything is up for grabs except those areas which are specifically ruled out. Scotland's 1st Minister Nicolas Sturgeon has been launching the s.n.p. Manifesto warning that Bracks it was nowhere near being done and there was every chance the u.k. Could leave the e.u. Without a trade deal under Boris Johnson speaking Glasgow she called for greater investment in the n.h.s. In Scotland the clear end to austerity and the removal of nuclear weapons from Scottish soil some of Britain's best known chefs have been paying tribute to their colleague Gary Rhodes following his death at the age of 59 Born in South London he want to record 5 Michelin stars and was a well known face on t.v. Shows like Master Chef but he left the u.k. In 2007 to live and work in Dubai Marcus Wareing a fellow restaurateur and judge on Master Chef The professionals says Garry Rhodes had a great influence on how the chefs brought the British flavor to the table there was always being there when no one's really singing and shouting about Gary did that in abundance really are all Great Britain to the forefront at a time when it was all about French style and he's always done that he never changes and he'll be remembered as a great British icon theatre director and writer So Jonathan Miller has died at the age of $85.00 The London born polymath 1st found fame in the early 1960 s. In the review beyond the fringe with Peter Cook Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett after giving up a career as a doctor he went on to direct theatre and television plays including the Merchant of Venice at the National Theatre and 6 of the b.b.c. Television Shakespeare plays and he had a 4 decade relationship with the English National Opera 8 people have been arrested this morning in a Met police operation targeting drug related violence in South London more than $200.00 officers have raided 7 addresses in Lewisham one in Greenwich one in Bromley and 4 in Kent they found a stun gun.