Richard Morecroft had a furry studio companion viewers never knew about
Key points
- Late presenter Richard Morecroft secretly kept an orphaned baby grey-headed flying fox inside his shirt while reading the NSW 7PM news in late 1987. He named the pup Archie and fostered it after completing a WIRES training course.
- Archie was later the subject of a 30-minute ABC documentary, Raising Archie.
- Morecroft died this week aged 70, after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.
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