The TV presenter and actor Brian Cant has died aged 83. The former Play School host had been living with Parkinson's disease, his agent said. He died at Denville Hall, a retirement home often used by those in the entertainment industry.
Born in Ipswich in 1933, Cant was making programmes for schools in 1964 when he was hired as a Play School presenter, which proved to be his big break. He remained with the children's TV favourite for more than 20 years and became part of the Play Away team, the Play School spin-off aimed at an older audience.
Cant's voice is also familiar to viewers of the animated series Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, in which he narrated the tales of Windy Miller, Chippy Minton and PC McGarry.
He famously voiced the Trumpton fire brigade roll call of "Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub". Other shows he worked on included Bric-a-Brac and Milkshake.
Lovely man. 
