This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning, everybody, welcome along to your free podcast. It's Friday. whatever it's scarf thing. I don't know. Anyway, sad news, of course, that we lost

Andrew Sacks. He'd been suffering from dementia for a few years, I think probably about three or

four years. He was 86, and his widow had been looking after him.

He was wheelchair bound, unable to speak.

But you've still got him.

And that's the advantage of the invention that is television

and the advantage of DVDs and videos and books and everything else.

I mean, out of all the things that Andrew did,

he was probably, well, he's best known for two things.

One was Faulty Towers, at which they only made 12 episodes,

but each one, he didn't mind being hit.

He said he didn't mind being hit by John Cleese.

And John Cleese called him Andy.

So that was nice.

That wasn't his first name, actually, either.

He had another first name. But his wife, Melody, cared for him. Tardt. Of course, the other thing he was famous for was that disgusting, so-called joke played on him by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross. Russell Brown lost his job. He couldn't have given a four-ex about it. And I don't think

Jonathan Ross cared either, really. It was a shame because that was not the kind of thing

you expected, and I hope that they still feel ashamed over it. His first name was Andreas Siegfried.

How cute was that? Andreas Siegfried. But he was born in Berlin. Father was Jewish, mother was

Catholic, and a path of Austrian defence. His stepson is John Sacks, who used to work for Capitol Radio some years ago. He was a commentator. He had an agency as well. I seem to remember there's an agency that John Sacks had because he was one of those dirty deep-board voices, and he was very good but we loved Andrew Sacks so I was sorry I don't think

he's going to be the first of the celebrities to to pass over at this time of year I have a feeling

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