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Eric Longworth

HIS thin face seemed sucked of humour, so, when he cleared his throat in an authoritative manner, all frivolity ceased and he became the embodiment of officialdom. Read

David Charters: The man who uses the same teabag twice is unlikely to be a friend to the orphan

THE pompous economist on the wireless was offering his opinion about the financial catastrophe, which threatens to ruin us all. Read

Earl Palmer

WHEN rock was young, he was the drummer – a man who understood the music through race, soul, sex, family and experience. Read

Harry Challenor

SHOULD a brave man also be a good man? The question is usually answered in the affirmative by Hollywood. Read

Norman Whitfield

WHEN he saw the soul singer Smokey Robinson sitting as cool as you like in a Cadillac, the pool player became a tambourine man on his way to writing and producing some of the songs which would define his era. Read

It’s faith, not truth, that’s out there

Despite profound personal sorrows, a clergyman has mounted a robust defence of religious faith against the scientists who dismiss God. David Charters reports Read

Richard Duggan

HE WAS a grand family man with a generous smile and many gifts – high among which was an ebullient humour, sometimes exercised on the touch-line of sporting events, where he never felt that his own wry observations should be restrained by a comparatively modest experience of mud and crunching bones. Read

Alys Lancaster

THOSE were the days. The butler’s spy-hole in the machine on the pier provided flickering thrills, kiss-me-quick-hats were high fashion, held down against the bracing breeze, which carried the smells of frying fish down the prom, “poe-shh” landladies liked refined guests, and she was the queen of Britain’s most popular resort. Read

David Charters: Ah, the old problem - Life

"YOUR laughter does not deafen me,” I said, in a peevish tone, as my latest joke seemed to lose its bearings in the humid air humming around my friend and colleague, who was sitting in the desk opposite mine, watching a skin form over the tea cooling in his stained mug. Read

Norman Warden Owen

“THEY came away like two pegs from a cribbage board,” he said later. Expressed in mere words, in the old British style, it was always possible for our heroes to accept their acts of almost unimaginable bravery, with a modest shrug. Read

Liverpudlian heroes unnoticed in the crowd

FROM glory to destitution, life was often cruel for Liverpool’s bravest of the brave, as a new book about VCs tells us. David Charters reports. Read

Joey Giardello

IT WAS boxing as you remember it from the movies – brimmed hats, wide-striped suits, padded shoulders, corrupt deals, street-corner boys shouting the betting odds, all held in the shades of smoke from fat cigars, while skinny Italians punched bags, hoping one day to be contenders. Read

Bill Melendez

THIS son of a Mexican cavalry officer led a strike of animators, which would have stilled Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and all the others, if their creator, Walt Disney, had not allowed his studio staff to join a union. Read

Bernard McKenna

HIS opinions were formed by what he saw and his politics rose from the streets. Six of his younger brothers and sisters, born into a desperately poor family, had died in infancy. Read

Muddling through has always been my highest ambition

IT IS true that, amid all the bumps and balm of life, my highest admiration has been reserved for those, who have squeezed their souls to help us laugh along that auld parade of pantaloons, buffoonaries, fizzing dentures, pork-pie hats, sad eyes, skew-whiff wigs, slow smiles and frozen mirrors. Read

Anita Page

SHE was the last voice of the silent age, when the fingers of pianists danced to the action and the strings in the orchestra pit spoke of sorrow and love, and her beauty stirred the juices of Benito Mussolini, Italy’s Fascist dictator, who sent her doting love letters. Read

David Charters with La Princess

Is this the first of the spiders from Mars?

THE earth-shaking spider has vanished, but does the future hold an even more terrifying surprise? David Charters weaves a story Read

The woman who won admiration for her kindness to the rich and the poor

She loved to sing herself, as she tended the poor. Now a tune has been dedicated to Liverpool’s Saint of the Slums. David Charters reports Read

Jerry Reed

ELVIS was slim and fit, talking in that slow, southern drawl, which reminded people of old country meeting-houses and honey. Read

A cause worth giving your life for

On returning to his native Liverpool, one of Britain’s greatest trade unionists and a Spanish Civil War veteran revealed his undying passion for humanity. David Charters reports Read

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Award-winning feature writer and columnist David Charters is a highly-respected journalist and author whose hugely-popular weekly column is now available in print and podcast format. Tel: 0151 4722427

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