Now that is very sad. He was such a nice chap.
I will always remember him at a Sky at Night Perseids night at Patrick’s in Selsey some time in the noughties. Allan emerged around midnight from doing an interview for the programme into the garden where we were already settled watching for meteors when Allan started wrestling with a sunbed in the dark. The air turned blue and I remember him saying “Oh Lord! I’m such a troglodyte!” to much laughter.
RIP Allan.
Ian.