Post-Today
The broadcast wrecked Grundy's television career. By 1979 he was presenting a book review programme, A Better Read, broadcast not at prime time like Today, but early on Sunday mornings. His presenting slot on What the Papers Say in the early 1980s was his last on national British television, although he continued to present on BBC North West on such shows as Sweet and Sour and The Lancashire Lads into the mid-80s. He also appeared as an interviewer in ITV's adaptation of A Kind of Loving in 1982. Grundy died of a heart attack in Stockport, Greater Manchester, on 9 February 1993, aged 69. His obituary was by his friend and colleague Brian Inglis. Two days later Inglis himself died.
His son Tim Grundy was a popular radio presenter in the Manchester area until his death in 2009. He also had three other sons and two daughters.
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