Ray Galton obituary

Half of the supremely talented writing duo who produced popular comedy hits such as Steptoe and Son and Hancock’s Half HourFor three long and bleak years in the late 1940s a teenager with tuberculosis had to endure boredom, depression and a sense of alienation because all the other occupants of his sanatorium were much older. Then another teenager was brought into the ward and one of Britain’s most successful and enduring comedy writing teams was born.The lonely young man was Ray Gal