David Coleman at his home in Berkshire after a short illness. David Coleman David Robert Coleman OBE (26 April 1926 – 21 December 2013) was a British sports commentator and TV presenter who worked for the BBC for 46 years. He covered eleven Summer Olympic Games from 1960 to 2000 and six football World Cups. Coleman presented some of the BBC's leading sporting programmes, including "Grandstand" and "Sportsnight", and was the host of "A Question of Sport" for 18 years. He retired from the BBC in 2000. Later that year he became the first broadcaster to receive the Olympic Order award, in
David Rappaport the name David Rappaport-Bramley – all inhabitants adopted the surname 'Bramley', so that if the Greater London Council were to succeed in an eviction, they would have to rehouse them as one family. David Rappaport first came to public notability in children's television, appearing alongside Sylvester McCoy as an O-Man in the 1979 BBC children's series "Jigsaw". Rappaport and McCoy had previously appeared together in "Illuminatus!" at the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool (founded by Ken Campbell and Chris Langham in 1976). The pair also appeared in the anarchic Ken Campbell Road Show. Rappaport was with the Road Show in