on air each week during his Sunday evening phone-in show on LBC. In the summer of 1979, Jeremy Beadle approached LBC and told them to sack Modlyn, let him take over the show, and he would give them a younger audience. This Beadle achieved until his own sacking in June 1980. Former BBC Producer Roger Ordish has claimed as part of an audiobook 'extra' to the documentary maker Louis Theroux's autobiography, that Modlyn was his first choice to present what later became titled Jim'll Fix It but that he was overruled. In 1982 Radio 4 broadcast Modlyn Through, a portrait of the broadcaster. Personal life and death Modlyn married Dorothy Harris in 1959 in Hackney, London. The couple had no children. His personalised car number plate was MM 405, which were his initials and the number of lines on early TV sets. He was awarded an OBE in 1983 for has charitable work, most notably for the RSPCA. Modlyn died in Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith of a cerebral haemorrhage on 6 May 1994, aged 72. His widow died in January 2017. References 1921 births 1994 deaths British male journalists British radio personalities LBC radio presenters