Each time it was like a favourite uncle coming back into the studio [on working with Richard Whiteley] View quotes by Richard Stilgoe
One of the great, modest, amusing, jolly, heart-warming broadcasters of our time [Richard Whiteley] View quotes by Sir Jeremy Isaacs
If he fluffed and fumbled that was natural. If he told awful jokes people liked that. He did the programme so well on a friendly, human basis. [on Richard Whiteley] View quotes by Austin Mitchell
Such a nice man - that was the defining quality of him, a genuinely nice man. And he had no real ego. [on Richard Whiteley] View quotes by Ken Bruce
He was Countdown and Countdown was him. I'm privileged to have known him [and] to have been so close to him [on Richard Whiteley] View quotes by Carol Vorderman
He loved what he did, he loved being on Countdown - he just loved life [on Richard Whiteley] View quotes by Giles Brandreth
