He was an original member of the Coronation Street cast, playing Ken Barlow’s brother. He turned up in Brookside, where his character NIcholas Black married Heather Huntington (Amanda Burton) before shockingly revealing he was a middle class heroin addict. But, I most fondly remember him from presenting Picture Box, whose theme seems to have inspired the entire career of Boards of Canada.
RIP: Alan Rothwell
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He seemed ageless. I saw a recent picture of him and recognised him straight away – “it’s the guy who used to come on after the creepy music, smile, and then introduce something like The Tale Of Sleepy Hollow to unsettle us.
Heather Haversham, if you please. 😉
Oh god you are sooo right. She was the indie pinup of the time.
I suspect the whole hauntology thing owes a lot to the Picture Box theme tune.