Bob Monkhouse champions cancer charity from beyond the grave in new advert

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 14 June 2007

The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation has launched a television campaign featuring the late entertainer Bob Monkhouse speaking posthumously about his own death.

Monkhouse, who died of prostate cancer in 2003, appears in a graveyard beside his own grave. He says: "As a comedian I died many deaths. Prostate cancer I don't recommend." The film, which is supported by Monkhouse's widow, aims to raise awareness of a disease that kills one British man...

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