A man who really ruled the airwaves before the ventriloquists Mike Parker mentioned (Letters, September 12) was Harry Hemsley and his ventriloquial family of small children.
His usual punchline was: "What did Horace say, Winnie?" This always followed a garbled message from a supposed infant.
The man who really made ventriloquism pay was Edgar Bergen with his dummy Charlie McCarthy - very big on US radio and in Hollywood films with the likes of Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda. He also brought the house down on the W C Fields Show.
-G Dean, Brighton
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