Sad to hear of Charles Wheeler's death at the age of 85 from cancer. We won't see his like again. His values were forged in the second world war and brought to bear on the post war world. Everyone who worked with him had nothing but the highest respect for him - "the reporter's reporter". I was never lucky enough to work with him, although we did get to know each other. I found him warm, generous, but with a disconcerting shrewd bluntness. He was wiry in every sense with an unflinching eye that seemed to look deep into you. Working almost to the end, he'll be greatly missed.
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He epitomised, for me, what the BBC has stood for for so long, Richard.
Posted by: John Connell | July 05, 2008 at 01:31 PM