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About Montague Modlyn
- Montague ("Monty") Modlyn (23 May 1921 – 6 May 1994) was a British journalist, best known as a radio/TV presenter.
- Modlyn worked extensively on radio and TV, often as a roving reporter.
- His personalised car number plate was MM 405 - his initials and the number of lines on early TV sets, Modlyn was born in Lambeth, the son of a Jewish tailor, and left school at 14.
- He worked as a proofreader's assistant for the Daily Mail and then wrote for the South London Press and the Evening Standard.
- His first broadcast was Down Lambeth Way, a talks programme for Forces radio.
- He was an outside broadcaster for the Jack de Manio early morning radio programme Today.
- In the 1960s he did pilot shows for Tyne Tees TV, including a Christmas Special. He cultivated an East End working-class image, together with an apparent lack of respect for the rich and famous.
- His classic interview in this vein was with Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada, whom he asked how many people he had murdered.
- Amin responded "You very cheeky man!" Modlyn was delighted by that, and adopted a theme song: Pardon my cheek, and the way that I speak, but no matter where I go To common or gentry, I talk element'ry In the only way I know.On LBC radio he presented Monty Modlyn at Large.
- He also presented a series on LBC called Monty's Pub where he visited a different public house every week.
- As well as pubs, Modlyn had a fondness for smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels, which he would consume on air each week during his Sunday evening phone-in show on LBC.
- In the summer of 1979 Jeremy Beadle approached LBC and told them to sack Modlyn and let him take over the show and he would give them a young audience.
- This Beadle achieved until his own sacking in June 1980.His widow Dorothy died in January 2017 (Kol Kinloss 13.01.17 Vayechi)
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