Dickie Bird: 'Harry Gration was a great friend, colleague and man'

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Famous names remember former BBC broadcaster Harry Gration, who died on Friday aged 71.

Tributes continue to pour in for broadcaster Harry Gration who has died aged 71.

A tearful Bird, 89, recalled how he would "have a good laugh" while staying with Gration and his wife Helen.Bradford-bornand Look North in 1982. He left in October 2020, a day before his 70th birthday. On Saturday, cricket fans at the Headingley Test match joined in a round of applause for the broadcaster.

"He didn't wear his faith on his sleeve," he said. "He wanted his charity work to tell people, 'I am actually doing this for someone called Jesus who sent me and people are in poverty'."She said: "He let me go to Look North and look around and see what a newsroom was like and see the kind of jobs that people did behind the scenes in TV as well as in front of the camera.

 

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