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UNSUNG HEROES

Many of our nation’s heroes go unsung and are forgotten about. The NHA would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to some of these delightful people. We therefore hereby present you with the NHA’s Unsung Hero award.

Unlike the NHA’s Politician of the Week award, the Unsung Hero award is not awarded regularly, and is also not awarded to just anybody. In order to be eligible to be crowned an Unsung Hero, you must be a British citizen whose achievements in any field have not been recognised by society or have been overshadowed by the success of another individual.

UNSUNG HERO: ALAN COREN

Alan Coren

Journalist, satirist, harpist, writer, and legend - Alan Coren was just some of these and so much more. From humble beginnings in the town of London writing for various local rags and appearing on satirical radio programmes, Coren gradually worked his way up the food chain until a near claim to fame in 1991, when director Kevin Reynolds offered him the part of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Alan turned down the part thinking there was a clerical mix up, and instead suggested to his agent that his good friend Alan Rickman should play the part. Alan finally got what was arguably his big break in 1996, when he bitterly fought against Danish comedian, Sandi Toksvig, in the highbrow political quiz show Call My Bluff. Alan died of cancer on October 18th, 2007; his name will however live on as he enters the Hall of NHA Unsung Heroes.

PREVIOUS HEROES:

JOHN SESSIONS | ALAN COREN | TIM WONNACOTT | MIDGE URE | BORIS JOHNSON | PAUL SHAFFER | BRIAN MAY | NICK RHODES