Talk:Chad Varah

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A fact from Chad Varah appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 November 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that comic? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/November.

There was some interesting information disclosed about Varah on the Radio 4 programme "Sunday" on November 11, 2007, including how he had a temporary breach with the organisation he founded, the Samaritans; should this part of his life go here? Also, according to this programme, he had a belief in reincarnation. Perhaps these parts of his life could go there? ACEOREVIVED 19:50, 11 November 2007 (UTC) Varah's temporary breach with the Samaritans was mentioned later on on Radio Four on that same day (November 11 2007) on the programme "Last Words" (originally broadcast on Friday 9 November). The explanation given was that he was feeling that the Samaritans had become too evangelical in tone. Who else heard these programmes? ACEOREVIVED 21:56, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...is mentioned in the Guardian obituary - [1]. I think he is mostly likely to be

--Nexus5 (talk) 12:22, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is the homophony of his name with the Sanskrit numeral catvarah purely coincidental?----Clive Sweeting

In 1953, in London, it was difficult to obtain a telephone line. There was a considerable waiting list for new lines and numbers. St. Stephen Walbrook was (and is) adjacent to the Mansion House, and Chad Varah managed to persuade the Lord Mayor to transfer his private telephone line and number to the newly-founded Samaritans. Unfortunately, I don't remember now who told me about this, which is why I'm only posting it in the discussion page, but it was someone in a position to know. JimInRoses (talk) 20:15, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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