"Fluff" Freeman RIP

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:37 pm

Whenever I hear of Alan "Fluff" Freeman I think of CH because Pick Of The Pops was always on the radio when I returned to school from a Sunday visit much to my father's annoyance!

My mother wouldn't let him change the station because she knew I liked Pick Of The Pops and she felt sorry for me disappearing back to school for another few weeks!

RIP "Fluff"

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:42 pm

Pick of the Pops = Sunday tea-time in the study with mugs of tea and cheese on toast - we didn't move until he got to the nÂº 1 spot....

An icon, indeed, and every bit as evocative as Proust's madeleines.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:55 pm

Another person I have met has passed away.

Many many years ago in a block of flats in St. Johns Wood, I bumped into him in the corridor whilst I was trying to find a flat number.

He was polite and a gentlemen, but my only true recollection of him was how short he was !

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:50 pm

Euterpe13 wrote:Pick of the Pops = Sunday tea-time in the study with mugs of tea and cheese on toast - we didn't move until he got to the nÂº 1 spot....

An icon, indeed, and every bit as evocative as Proust's madeleines.

Not just in the Study BB, don't you remember that enormous old radio on the right-hand mantelpiece below the Mons board in the dayroom?

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:56 pm

Yes I remember the radio under the Mons Board. And wasn't it after Evening Chapel? I seem to remember rushing back for the programme!Where did tea fit in with that?

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:13 pm

I think we listened while eating tea or just after was it 6-7pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/pickofthepops/

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:40 pm

I'd only really heard of him because of Harry Enfields Smashy & Nicey

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:28 pm

I think he was wheelchair bound the last few years and lived in one of those places for retired actors/entertainers. I seem to remember seeing him in a photo from somewhere.

I didn't realise he was Australian.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:17 pm

kerrensimmonds wrote:Yes I remember the radio under the Mons Board. And wasn't it after Evening Chapel? I seem to remember rushing back for the programme!Where did tea fit in with that?

Sunday evenings in the study we got our own tea, after the house had theirs - and yes, of course I remember the big radio - but dont think we managed to hear all of Pick of the Pops in the dayroom, as it went on for quite a while !