Terry Hall (ventriloquist) "Crackerjack" and "3-2-1". From 1977 to 1980, Hall regularly appeared in the educational television programme "Reading With Lenny". He wrote the "Kevin the Kitten" series of children's reading books which accompanied the series. Hall married twice. He had two daughters from his first marriage. He married a second time in 1980, to dance teacher Denise Francis. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease in later life, and died in 2007 in Coventry aged 80. Dr Harry Brünjes, a long-standing family friend, gave the eulogy at the service. Terry Hall (ventriloquist) Terence "Terry" Hall (20 November 1926 – 3 April 2007) was an
Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe celebratory dance piece that opens a program of puppet theater; "Yaoya Oshichi" 八百屋お七 or "Date Musume Koi no Higanoko" 伊達娘恋火子, the story of a young woman who must climb a fire tower and sacrifice herself on a snowy night to save her lover; "Hidakagawa Iriaizakura" 日高川入相花王, a scene both comic and exciting in which a young woman's raging jealously transforms her into a demon serpent; the "Lion Dance" or "shishimai" 獅子舞, a puppet version of the dance performed frequently at festivals throughout Japan; "The Dance of Ebisu" or "Ebisumai" 恵比寿舞, a comic piece featuring the traditional fisherman deity; and "Keisei