Person

Muir, Frank

1920–1998

Radio- und TV-Autor ; was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur; his writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers; together they wrote BBC radio’s Take It From Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes My Word! and My Music for another 35; Muir became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC in the 1960s, and was then London Weekend Television’s founding Head of Entertainment; his many writing credits include editorship of The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose; his only adult fictional work,Walpole orange, published in 1993