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09/11/2005
Television writer Harry Thompson dies
Harry Thompson the writer responsible for Have I Got News For You and Da Ali G Show has died aged 45.
Thompson, whose first novel, This Thing Of Darkness, was on the Booker prize's long list, was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in April. He did not smoke.
Thompson also wrote biographies of Peter Cook and Tintin's creator, Hergé, and had worked on TV shows They Think It's All Over and The Mary Whitehouse Experience.
He died on Monday night having married Lisa Whadcock, his girlfriend, that day.
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