RIP Richard Marsland
Dec. 15th, 2008 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccOn Friday 5th December we drove in to work. This was because Connex had cancelled our train, leaving us with a 30 minute wait for the next one, which was coming from the end of the line. Given that we live about a 7 minute walk from the station, and that the platform was absolutely packed already we decided to drive.
On the way in we listened to Triple M. Coincidentally, it was the breakfast show's last show of the year - they play repeats over the silly season. I missed the end of the show and the final sign off of Pete, Myf and anchor Richard Marsland, although I caught most of the show up to then including the final "Cha-radio[1]" ('Windtalkers' - guessed by "Nicholas Cage"[2]).
So it was a bit of a shock to open the paper on the following Sunday and find that Richard Marsland had been found dead the previous day. The initial report was sketchy - he was found dead in a car.
My first thought was functioning addict, ODs on purer than usual heroin[3]. Dean's was suicide. Both of us hoped it was something else, like asthma attack, or rolled his car, or sudden aneurysm or hit a roo.
Dean was right. At least that's what we've since gleaned from the follow up reports, all of which have had the contact information for Lifeline and BeyondBlue at the end.
I can't help thinking - if I (and others), who only had contact with him via the radio, am this shocked and saddened, how much worse must it be for the people who knew him and loved him?
And seriously, what a terrible waste.
RIP Richard. I'll miss your sometimes inane, sometimes insane radio presence. And I really wish I could find your appallingly bad but hysterically funny cover of "Time to Party" by The Jet Set. Probably not the most appropriate tune for a funeral, but certainly a great one to sum up your work. In the meantime I'll download some podcasts.
[1] "Charades on the radio." Basically sound effect charades. Surprisingly difficult to get at times.
[2] He turns up a lot.
[3] This says a lot about the unit I'm in really.
On the way in we listened to Triple M. Coincidentally, it was the breakfast show's last show of the year - they play repeats over the silly season. I missed the end of the show and the final sign off of Pete, Myf and anchor Richard Marsland, although I caught most of the show up to then including the final "Cha-radio[1]" ('Windtalkers' - guessed by "Nicholas Cage"[2]).
So it was a bit of a shock to open the paper on the following Sunday and find that Richard Marsland had been found dead the previous day. The initial report was sketchy - he was found dead in a car.
My first thought was functioning addict, ODs on purer than usual heroin[3]. Dean's was suicide. Both of us hoped it was something else, like asthma attack, or rolled his car, or sudden aneurysm or hit a roo.
Dean was right. At least that's what we've since gleaned from the follow up reports, all of which have had the contact information for Lifeline and BeyondBlue at the end.
I can't help thinking - if I (and others), who only had contact with him via the radio, am this shocked and saddened, how much worse must it be for the people who knew him and loved him?
And seriously, what a terrible waste.
RIP Richard. I'll miss your sometimes inane, sometimes insane radio presence. And I really wish I could find your appallingly bad but hysterically funny cover of "Time to Party" by The Jet Set. Probably not the most appropriate tune for a funeral, but certainly a great one to sum up your work. In the meantime I'll download some podcasts.
[1] "Charades on the radio." Basically sound effect charades. Surprisingly difficult to get at times.
[2] He turns up a lot.
[3] This says a lot about the unit I'm in really.
