Heartbroken to hear about the loss of Sandra Kerr. In 2015, I tentatively contacted her to ask if she'd like to be a guest on my old radio show. I was hoping for a ten-minute phone interview about Bagpuss and the folk tradition, but she drove down to the studio in Middlesbrough...

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...with a huge bag of musical instruments, gave me a bear hug in the street and proceeded to be utterly fabulous for the next two hours. It was the beginning of a friendship that has been one of the absolute highlights of my life. We worked together on live shows, on audio stories and plotted...

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...all kinds of scrapes, and I loved it all. But what I'll remember most fondly of all is just sitting with Sandra and her partner David on long afternoons and laughing and laughing and laughing. She was a musical genius, an extraordinary singer and songwriter, but she was also a fabulous person...

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...a genuine force of nature, funny and passionate and so, so generous and caring, and I feel absolutely privileged to have been allowed into her life. I will miss you SO much, my beautiful Mad the Rag. Love to David, Sandra's daughter Nancy, her husband James and all the family xxx

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A sad day for us all. Worst of all, it morphed into The Family Channel, got bought by Disney, and all its shows are lost in rights hell. I would *love* to see an HD-upscale version of Knights of God. And all the Ultra Quiz series. Especially the Stu Francis era.

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