{"id":1159,"date":"2008-08-31T10:49:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T09:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2008-08-31T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T09:50:32","slug":"geoffrey-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/31\/geoffrey-perkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sad to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/minifig\/statuses\/903258172\">via Twitter<\/a> on Friday evening that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geoffrey_Perkins\">Geoffrey Perkins<\/a> had <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7589102.stm\">died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although primarily a TV and radio producer, Perkins was most recognisable to television audiences as Mike Flex on the BBC Two comedy show <em>KYTV<\/em>, which he co-wrote with Angus Deayton (and which was itself a transfer of their Radio 4 comedy <em>Radio Active<\/em>). 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