![]() Among many speciality acts in those pioneering days, he was considered a perfect performer for the medium when he recited his "Odd Odes" in Cyril Fletcher (1937) because he managed to stay still for the camera while only his head and shoulders were seen in vision. In the same year, he appeared on BBC radio for the first time, before making regular appearances on the new television service, which had a range of 40 miles from Muswell Hill. ![]() He joined Newman's Fols de Rols concert party in 1936, making his début at the White Rock Pavilion, Hastings, and subsequently appearing in London, at the Holborn Empire. His dream was to become a classical actor and he was launched on a career in show business after Greatrex Newman spotted him reciting one of his odes. ![]() The beans on toast and cheese au gratin!"īorn in 1913 in Watford, Hertfordshire, where his father was a solicitor and town clerk, Fletcher began writing comic poems about his schoolteachers at Friern Barnet Grammar School, then, after taking a job as an insurance clerk, about his first boss. ![]()
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