You ask for readers’ memories in your story (The Argus, September 4) about tributes to David Jacobs.

As an older reader, I remember David Jacobs on the radio programme Journey Into Space, which ran from 1953 to 1955. I was a teenager at the time.

I well recall listening to this with my parents and know many readers of my age will remember the excitement we experienced every week as we awaited each episode.

There is a lot of information on the internet about David Jacobs and Journey Into Space – Wikipedia includes details of each series and each episode, in fact all you wanted to know.

This very popular programme was broadcast in the last years before everyone started getting a TV set (my parents had their first one in 1956). To his credit, much has been mentioned about David’s career as a television presenter but we should also remember his earlier work as a radio actor.

Robert Goldsmith, Maple Close, Haywards Heath

We have lost another old-world gentleman in the shape of David Jacobs. Not the least of his achievements was to effortlessly convey the impression he had just come back from going out on the pull with Nat King Cole.

On a more serious note, we all felt great sadness when his life was suddenly taken.

My abiding memory is of him chairing Juke Box Jury and playing Shirley Bassey’s What Now, My Love? A panellist insisted on repeating the title with the emphasis on the word “Now” and an implied exclamation mark.

David Jacobs, with his inimitable suavity, had an impression that suggested Shirley would not register surprise at any suggestion, anytime, anyplace, and that he knew this for a fact.

We shall miss him.

Andy Steer, Windlesham Road, Brighton