With a last vindictive kick 2018 has taken the much-loved - by several generations of listeners and viewers - June Whitfield. Following the recent death of Denis Norden, she was the last remaining member of the ground-breaking post-war radio series Take it from Here. She was not the original female member of the cast. This was the Australian Joy Nichols who sang as well as acted. Muir, Norden and the producer held auditions for a replacement singing actress when Ms Nichols departed with her husband and young daughter for the United States.
In the end, because Alma Cogan proved to be an outstanding singer but only adequate as an actress (though she regularly provided the unintelligible voice from upstairs of Ma Glum) and Ms Whitfield was a clearly superb, versatile, voice actress, the TIFH team decided to employ both. It is a mark of their qualities that the notoriously mean BBC of that time could be persuaded.
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