The Sheffield - Reggie Perrin connection

[dunsbyowl1867]

Former Sheffield Star journalist David Nobbs autobiography is available in BBC i-player at the moment - never heard of him I thought anyway he wrote 'The Rise & Fall of Reggie Perrin' apparently!

http://www.davidnobbs.com/biography.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ck...y..._Episode_2/

[ceegee]

There is an anecdote on David Nobbs on

http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield/easthousemurders1960.htm

"At the time the murders took place in the East House, a local Sheffield journalist was passing the scene but due to his inebriated state he ignored the incident. In his autobiography he recalls

"On my way home one evening, after a long session in the pub, I saw four police cars parked outside a little pub called the Vine (it was the East House). I decided that I'd better go nowhere near it in my inebriated state and drifted home to covert my sofa into a bed. In the morning the headline in the Daily Express was "FOUR SHOT DEAD in SHEFFIELD HARLEM". I would have been the first journalist on the scene. I kept very silent about that..."

The journalist went on to become one of Britain's top television writers. He recounted this episode in his autobiography "I Didn't Get Where I am Today"