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Welsh comedian, raconteur and musician – and rugby fan. His album We All Had Doctors’ Papers was the first comedy album to top the charts.

When I visited Madame Tussaud’s in London a few years ago, I was amazed to see some large life-size wax models of the Welsh rugby team being loaded into a forty-foot container marked ‘URGENT – for the attention of the England selectors, Twickenham’.

I enquired what they intended doing with them and was told that the English selectors had ordered them and were going to install them at Twickenham. The England team were then going to practise tackling and sidestepping them. Intrigued, I rang the Chairman of England selectors and asked him how the new training method was going.

‘Not very well,’ he replied. ‘Wales won, 14-6.’