by his friend and fellow poet TED WALKER , with Reader Anne Ridler
On my ancestor's tomb this epitaph's cut:
'He was upright, modest and affable'.
That's possible, but let my epitaph say:
'Sometimes thinking aloud He went his own way. He was joky by nature, Sad, sceptical, proud.
What he never would follow, Or lead, was a crowd.'
Producer shaun MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol