Who was Uncle Dick?

[Hopkirk]

http://www.dailymail....ims-John-Simpson.html

[sandyRoe]

Derek McCullogh was a Childrens Hour presenter known as Uncle Mac

[Mick-Talbot]

I have heard the name of a dead politician and a dead east enders actor.

[dotty.]

uncle mac i guess

[sandyRoe]

If Simpson meant him he should have said so.

[Mamyalynne]

Rumours abound, all over Google.

[woofgang]

I think Uncle Mac is the wrong generation, he never did TV

[dotty.]

the article says it was a radio presenter, not a tv personality/presenter.

[ummmm]

It was a radio presenter.

[Mick-Talbot]

woof

Simpson referred to the star in his 1999 autobiography as "Uncle Dick" and said he had been a household name from the 1920s until his death ...
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[dotty.]

I know we listened to saturday morning radio when i was small, can't remember it even though i was 10 in 1965, i know we had an LP of uncle mac's nursery rhymes