Monday, January 9, 2012

Larry Solway, TV and radio broadcaster, dies at 83

 Larry Solway, hose deep booming radio voice brought him fame and sometimes controversy, has died at age 83 of complications arising from bladder cancer. Solway was best known for his days hosting radio and TV talk shows. He acted in film and theatre and had a brief stint in politics. In the 1960s he was at CHUM, hosting talk radio shows like Speak Your Mind, taking thousands of calls from Torontonians a year on all kinds of subjects with all kinds of opinions.He left CHUM in 1970 in a flurry of controversy over a series of explicit sex shows. The next year he wrote a book, The Day I Invented Sex, about the experience. In the 70s, he was a panelist on CBC’s quiz show This Is the Law, and hosted Talkback on CHIC radio in Brampton, Ontario. He dabbled in acting – playing small roles in films such as Meatballs and The Brood.

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