Des O’Connor became one of Britain’s best loved performers despite his mother’s saying he couldn’t
What a gift for the headline writers. One evening in December 1980 an argument broke out at Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire. A few of the prisoners wanted to watch a Panorama documentary on the only TV set in the young offenders’ wing. The rest were insisting on a variety show…Des O’Connor Tonight on BBC2. … Read more