Ray Galton
BBC Comedy Commissioning has launched the Galton & Simpson Bursary for Comedy Writing. At a time when everyone is feeling the effects of isolation it’s particularly apt to celebrate the life and work of two people who originally met in a sanatorium and went on to define what television comedy could be.
Steptoe & Son and Hancock writer Ray Galton has died. He was 88.
Alongside Alan Simpson, who died in 2017, he was a pioneer in the development of the modern sitcom, most famously writing Hancock's Half Hour for Tony Hancock.
His family issued a statement that he died surrounded by his family after a "long and heartbreaking battle with dementia"
Tributes have been coming in from the entertainment industry.
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