Frank muir cause of death

The Frank Muir and Denis Norden Archive contains more than six hundred radio and television scripts by two gifted humorists acknowledged to be among the foremost British comedy writers of their age.

Denis Norden (b 1922) grew up in Hackney and originally pursued a career in cinema and theatre management in the 1930s. Although the pair were not to meet until 1947, he and Frank Muir (1920-1998) already had something in common as both served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and both spent much of their free time writing comedy material to amuse fellow servicemen. At the war's end, Muir landed a job with the British Broadcasting Corporation, writing comedy material for ex-airman Jimmy Edwards, and, in 1947, the scriptwriter Ted Kavanagh brought him together with Norden in the hope that the newly introduced pair might hit it off. It was the beginning of an outstanding thirty-year career, all of which is represented in the Archive, from their first major success, Take it from Here , which won the hearts of the British listening

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