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Lenny Henry

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Sir Lenworth George Henry, (born 29 August 1958), known as Lenny Henry, is a British stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer, and television presenter, known for co-founding charity Comic Relief, and presenting various television programmes, including the comedy Chef!, and The Magicians for BBC One. [1]

198 relations: Alan Cumming, Alive and Kicking (TV drama), Alpen (food), Alternative comedy, Amnesty International, Anansi Boys, Andy Parsons, Angela Rippon, Audiobook, Bachelor of Arts, Barrie Rutter, BBC, BBC One, BBC Online, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 4, Bernard and the Genie, Big & Small, Bill Bailey, Birmingham, Birmingham City University, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Black people, Blackpool, Bobby Davro, Bonnie Tyler, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Film Institute, British Jamaican, British people, British Stammering Association, Broadchurch, Broadchurch (series 3), Burton Road Hospital, Cameo appearance, Cannon and Ball, Catherine Tate, CBeebies, Celebrity Squares, Charles Spencer (journalist), Chef, Chef!, Chris Tarrant, Classic Rock (magazine), Closed-circuit television, Coast to Coast (1987 film), Colin Firth, Comic Relief, Covent Garden, Danny and the Human Zoo, ..., Darren McMullen, David Gilmour, Dawn French, Defunct schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, Destiny Ekaragha, Dominic Cooke, Donmar Warehouse, Duchess Theatre, Dudley, Duffy (singer), Ed Byrne (comedian), Educating Rita, English literature, Facial prosthetic, Fences (play), Fonterra, Four temperaments, GCE Ordinary Level, George VI, Griff Rhys Jones, Guinness Brewery, Hackney Empire, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film), Hope and Glory (TV series), Jack Nicholson, Jakko Jakszyk, Jasper Carrott, John Shea, Jon Canter, Jools Holland, Jools' Annual Hootenanny, Kate Bush, Kibera, Kim Fuller, King Crimson, Kirby: Squeak Squad, Knight Bachelor, Lager, Laurence Olivier Award, Leeds, Leeds Playhouse, Lenny Henry in Pieces, Little Robots, Live at the Apollo (TV series), London Weekend Television, Lord of the Dance (musical), Lynne Walker (critic), Magical objects in Harry Potter, Master of Arts, Mercy (Duffy song), Michael Billington (critic), Michael Jackson, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, Motown, Muesli, Museum of Broadcast Communications, National Theatre Live, Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere, New Faces, Nina Wadia, Norman Beaton, Northern Broadsides, Open University, Order of the British Empire, Organized crime, Othello, PDF, Penelope (2006 film), Phonograph record, Pink Floyd, Postman Pat: The Movie, Premier Inn, Preston's College, Preston, Lancashire, Prince (musician), Red Wedge, Reggie Yates, Rich, Famous and in the Slums, Robbie Coltrane, Robert Luff, Ronnie Corbett, Rowan Atkinson, Royal Holloway, University of London, Royal National Theatre, Royal Television Society, Run-DMC, Saint Peter, Sally James (presenter), Sam Chegini, Samantha Womack, Screenonline, Seaside Special, Shrunken head, Sir, Sketch comedy, Sky Arts, Skype, Slum, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Speaking clock, Stephen K. Amos, Stevie Wonder, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Teaching Awards, Teddy Pendergrass, The Black and White Minstrel Show, The Blue Coat School, Dudley, The Catherine Tate Show, The Comedy of Errors, The Comic Strip, The Cops Don't Know, The Daily Telegraph, The Enormous Crocodile, The Fosters (1976 TV series), The Guardian, The Independent, The King's Speech, The Lenny Henry Show, The Magicians (UK TV series), The Observer, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, The Red Shoes (album), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Secret Policeman's Ball, The Shining (film), The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sunday Times, The Syndicate, The Young Ones (TV series), Three of a Kind (TV series), Tina Turner, Tiswas, Trafalgar Studios, Trevor McDonald, True Identity, United Kingdom general election, 1987, University of London, Virgin Mobile, West Bromwich Albion F.C., West End of London, Whitehall, Worcestershire, Work Experience (film), Working men's club, Yorkshire Evening Post, 1999 New Year Honours, 2015 Birthday Honours. Expand index (148 more) »

Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming, (born 27 January 1965), is a Scottish-American actor, singer, writer, producer, director, and activist who has appeared in numerous films, television shows, and plays.

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Alive and Kicking (TV drama)

Alive and Kicking is a 1991 television drama made for the BBC's Screen One series.

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Alpen (food)

Alpen is a line of muesli varieties manufactured by the Weetabix cereal company of Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.

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Alternative comedy

Alternative comedy is a term coined in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era but can also be found in cartoons.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

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Anansi Boys

Anansi Boys is a fantasy novel by English writer Neil Gaiman.

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Andy Parsons

Andrew John Parsons (born 3 April 1967) is an English comedian and writer.

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Angela Rippon

Angela May Rippon CBE (born 12 October 1944)"Angela Rippon," Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, (2008) Gale Biography In Context is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter.

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Audiobook

An audiobook (or talking book) is a recording of a text being read.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Barrie Rutter

Barrie Thomas Rutter OBE (born 12 December 1946) is an English actor and the founder and artistic director of the Northern Broadsides theatre company based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Bernard and the Genie

Bernard and the Genie is a 1991 British fantasy comedy-drama television film directed by Paul Weiland and written by Richard Curtis.

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Big & Small

Big & Small is a British/Canadian children's television series aimed at preschoolers.

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Bill Bailey

Mark Robert "Bill" Bailey (born 13 January 1965) is an English comedian, musician, singer, actor, TV and radio presenter and author.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University (abbrev. BCU) is a modern university in the city of Birmingham, England.

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Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort on the Lancashire coast in North West England.

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Bobby Davro

Robert Christopher Nankeville, known professionally as Bobby Davro (born 13 September 1958 in Ashford, Middlesex) is an English actor and comedian.

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Bonnie Tyler

Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins; 8 June 1951) is a Welsh singer, known for her distinctive husky voice.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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British Jamaican

British Jamaican (or Jamaican British) people are British people who were born in Jamaica or who are of Jamaican descent.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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British Stammering Association

The British Stammering Association (BSA), a charity since 1978, is a national membership organisation in the United Kingdom for adults and children who stammer, their friends and families, speech and language therapists and other professionals.

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Broadchurch

Broadchurch is an English television crime drama broadcast on ITV.

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Broadchurch (series 3)

This third and final series of the British crime drama Broadchurch began airing on the ITV broadcast network in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2017 and is set three years after the events of series two.

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Burton Road Hospital

Burton Road Hospital was a National Health Service hospital situated in Dudley, West Midlands, England.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.

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Cannon and Ball

Tommy Cannon (born Thomas Derbyshire, 27 June 1938) and Bobby Ball (born Robert Harper, 28 January 1944), known collectively as Cannon and Ball, are an English comedy double act best known for their comedy variety show The Cannon and Ball Show, which lasted for nine years on ITV.

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Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate (born Catherine Ford; 12 May 1968) is an English comedian, actress, and writer.

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CBeebies

CBeebies is a BBC television network for British programming aimed at encouraging "learning through play in a consistently safe environment for children aged 6 or under", and providing "high quality, mostly UK-produced programmes".

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Celebrity Squares

Celebrity Squares is a British comedy game show based on the American comedy game show Hollywood Squares.

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Charles Spencer (journalist)

Charles Spencer (born 4 March 1955) is a British journalist.

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Chef

A chef is a trained professional cook who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation, often focusing on a particular cuisine.

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Chef!

Chef! is a British situation comedy starring Lenny Henry that aired as twenty episodes over three series from 1993 to 1996 on the BBC.

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Chris Tarrant

Christopher John Tarrant, OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English radio and television broadcaster.

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Classic Rock (magazine)

Classic Rock is a British magazine dedicated to rock music, published by Future PLC, who are also responsible for its "sister" publications Metal Hammer and Prog magazine.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Coast to Coast (1987 film)

Coast to Coast is a 1987 comedy thriller starring Lenny Henry, John Shea, with cameos from Peter Vaughan, Pete Postlethwaite and Cherie Lunghi.

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Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth, (born 10 September 1960), is an English actor who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, and an independent sister organization of the United States-based Comic Relief Inc. It was founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in Greater London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between Charing Cross Road and Drury Lane.

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Danny and the Human Zoo

Danny and the Human Zoo is a British drama television film that first broadcast on BBC One on 31 August 2015.

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Darren McMullen

Darren McMullen (born 10 February 1982) is an Australian television and radio presenter and personality, music journalist and music critic.

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David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour, (born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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Dawn French

Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, writer, comedian and presenter from Holyhead, Wales.

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Defunct schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley

This article details a number of defunct schools that were once located in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.

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Destiny Ekaragha

Destiny Ekaragha is a British film director.

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Dominic Cooke

Dominic Cooke, CBE (born 1966) is a four time Olivier Award-winning and BAFTA nominated English theatre, TV and film director and writer.

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Donmar Warehouse

The Donmar Warehouse is a 251-seat, not-for-profit theatre in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Duchess Theatre

The Duchess Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, London, located in Catherine Street near Aldwych.

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Dudley

Dudley is a large town in the county of West Midlands, England, south-east of Wolverhampton and north-west of Birmingham.

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Duffy (singer)

Duffy (born 23 June 1984 as Amy Anne Duffy) is a Welsh singer, songwriter and actress.

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Ed Byrne (comedian)

Edward Cathal Byrne (born 16 April 1972) is an Irish stand-up comedian, voice over artist and actor.

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Educating Rita

Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell.

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English literature

This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.

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Facial prosthetic

A facial prosthetic or facial prosthesis is an artificial device used to change or adapt the outward appearance of a person's face or head.

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Fences (play)

Fences is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson.

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Fonterra

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational dairy co-operative owned by around 10,500 New Zealand farmers.

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Four temperaments

The Four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory that suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic.

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GCE Ordinary Level

The O Level (Ordinary Level; official title: General Certificate of Education: Ordinary Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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Griff Rhys Jones

Griffith Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor and television presenter.

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Guinness Brewery

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Hackney Empire

The Hackney Empire is a theatre on Mare Street, in the London Borough of Hackney, built in 1901 as a music hall.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 fantasy film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Hope and Glory (TV series)

Hope and Glory is a BBC television drama about a comprehensive school struggling with financial, staffing and disciplinary problems, and faced with closure.

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Jack Nicholson

John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker who has performed for over sixty years.

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Jakko Jakszyk

Michael "Jakko" Jakszyk (born Michael Lee Curran, 8 June 1958) is an English musician, record producer, and actor.

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Jasper Carrott

Jasper Carrott, OBE (born Robert Norman Davis; 14 March 1945) is an English comedian, actor, television presenter, and personality.

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John Shea

John Victor Shea III (born April 14, 1949) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Jon Canter

Jon Canter is an English television comedy writer for Lenny Henry and other leading comedians.

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Jools Holland

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland, OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter.

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Jools' Annual Hootenanny

Hootenanny is an annual show presented by Jools Holland and broadcast on New Year's Eve as an end of year special of his television series Later... with Jools Holland.

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Kate Bush

Catherine "Kate" Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer.

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Kibera

Kibera (Nubian: Forest or Jungle) is a division of Nairobi Area, Kenya, and neighbourhood of the city of Nairobi, from the city centre.

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Kim Fuller

Kim Fuller (born 15 June 1951 in Hastings, England) is an English writer for film, radio and television.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Kirby: Squeak Squad

Kirby: Squeak Squad is a platforming video game in the Kirby series developed by HAL Laboratory, Flagship and Natsume (the latter as seen in the end credits) and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console.

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Knight Bachelor

The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Lager

Lager is a type of beer conditioned at low temperatures.

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Laurence Olivier Award

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Playhouse

Leeds Playhouse is a theatre in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the north of England.

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Lenny Henry in Pieces

Lenny Henry in Pieces is a British stand-up and sketch show by comedians Lenny Henry and Gina Yashere.

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Little Robots

Little Robots is a stop-motion animated children's TV series, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Create TV & Film and broadcast on CBeebies (the BBC's children's channel).

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Live at the Apollo (TV series)

Live at the Apollo (formerly titled Jack Dee Live at the Apollo) is a British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London.

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London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television (LWT) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00 am.

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Lord of the Dance (musical)

Lord of the Dance is an Irish musical and dance production that was created, choreographed, and produced by Irish-American dancer Michael Flatley, who also took a starring role.

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Lynne Walker (critic)

Lynne Walker (24 October 1956 – 10 February 2011) was a British music and theatre critic who also had experience as a broadcaster.

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Magical objects in Harry Potter

The following is a list of magical objects used in the Harry Potter series.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.

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Mercy (Duffy song)

"Mercy" is a song performed by Welsh singer Duffy, released as the second single from her debut studio album, Rockferry (2008).

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Michael Billington (critic)

Michael Keith Billington OBE (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Minerva Theatre, Chichester

The Minerva Theatre is a studio theatre seating at full capacity 310.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Muesli

Muesli; Swiss German: Müesli, non-Swiss Standard German: Müsli) is a breakfast and brunch dish based on raw rolled oats and other ingredients like grains, fresh or dried fruits, seeds and nuts, that may be mixed with cow's milk, soy milk, almond milk, other plant milks, yogurt, or fruit juice. Developed around 1900 by Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner for patients in his hospital, muesli is available ready-made in a packaged dry form, or it can be made fresh. In Switzerland and Germany, it is also eaten as a light evening dish called Birchermüesli complet, or muesli with butterbrot and coffee with milk.

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Museum of Broadcast Communications

The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is an American museum, the stated mission of which is "to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform and entertain through our archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to our resources." It is located in Chicago, Illinois.

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National Theatre Live

National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London, which broadcasts live via satellite, performances of their productions (and from other theatres) to cinemas and arts centres around the world.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.

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Neverwhere

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two.

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New Faces

New Faces was a British television talent show that aired in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Nina Wadia

Nina Wadia (born 18 December 1968) is a British actress, known for playing Zainab Masood in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, Mrs Hussein in the Open All Hours spin-off Still Open All Hours, and for starring in the hit BBC Two sketch show Goodness Gracious Me.

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Norman Beaton

Norman Lugard Beaton (31 October 1934 – 13 December 1994) was a Guyanese actor long resident in the United Kingdom.

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Northern Broadsides

Northern Broadsides is a theatre company formed in 1992 and based at Dean Clough Mill in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.

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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Organized crime

Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.

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Othello

Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Penelope (2006 film)

Penelope is a 2006 British-American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Mark Palansky and starring Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant, and Reese Witherspoon.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Postman Pat: The Movie

Postman Pat: The Movie is a 2014 British–American 3D computer animated children's comedy film based on the television series Postman Pat by John Cunliffe and Ivor Wood.

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Premier Inn

Premier Inn is a British hotel chain and the UK's largest hotel brand, with more than 65,000 rooms and 750 hotels.

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Preston's College

Preston's College is a further education college in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England.

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Preston, Lancashire

Preston is the administrative centre of Lancashire, England, on the north bank of the River Ribble.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.

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Red Wedge

Red Wedge was a collective of musicians formed in the UK in 1985, who attempted to engage young people with politics in general, and the policies of the Labour Party in particular, during the period leading up to the 1987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

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Reggie Yates

Reggie Yates is a British actor, television presenter and radio DJ, best known from his roles as Rastamouse, Leo Jones in Doctor Who, and for his work at the BBC in radio and television – presenting various shows for BBC Radio 1 with Fearne Cotton – as well as hosting the ITV2 reality show Release the Hounds from 2013 until 2017.

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Rich, Famous and in the Slums

Rich, Famous and in the Slums was a TV programme broadcast by the BBC on 3 and 10 March 2011 for Comic Relief.

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Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane, OBE (born Anthony Robert McMillan; 30 March 1950) is a Scottish actor and author.

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Robert Luff

Robert Charles William Luff, CBE (7 July 1914 – 18 February 2009) was a British theatrical agent and producer.

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Ronnie Corbett

Ronald Balfour Corbett, CBE (4 December 1930 – 31 March 2016) was a Scottish stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and broadcaster, best known for his long association with Ronnie Barker in the BBC television comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies.

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Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson, CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean.

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Royal Holloway, University of London

Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.

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Royal Television Society

The Royal Television Society, or RTS, is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future.

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Run-DMC

Run-DMC was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York, founded in 1981 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell.

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Saint Peter

Saint Peter (Syriac/Aramaic: ܫܸܡܥܘܿܢ ܟܹ݁ܐܦ݂ܵܐ, Shemayon Keppa; שמעון בר יונה; Petros; Petros; Petrus; r. AD 30; died between AD 64 and 68), also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, or Simon, according to the New Testament, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, leaders of the early Christian Great Church.

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Sally James (presenter)

Sally James (born Sally Cann, 10 May 1950) is a former presenter on the ITV Saturday morning children's show Tiswas from 1977 until it ended in 1982.

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Sam Chegini

Sam Chegini (سام چگینی) is an award winning Iranian artist born in Tehran in 1992 in an artistic family.

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Samantha Womack

Samantha Zoe Womack (Janus; born 2 November 1972) is a British actress, singer and director, in film, television and stage.

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Screenonline

Screenonline is a website about the history of British film, television and social history as documented by film and television.

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Seaside Special

Seaside Special was a BBC light entertainment show broadcast from 1975.

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Shrunken head

A shrunken head is a severed and specially prepared human head that is used for trophy, ritual, or trade purposes.

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Sir

Sir is an honorific address used in a number of situations in many anglophone cultures.

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Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

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Sky Arts

Sky Arts (originally launched as Artsworld) is an art-oriented television channel offering 24 hours a day of programmes dedicated to highbrow arts, including theatrical performances, movies, documentaries and music (such as opera performances and classical and jazz sessions).

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Skype

Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones.

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Slum

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons.

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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is a British sitcom created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice.

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Speaking clock

A speaking clock or talking clock is a live or recorded human voice service, usually accessed by telephone, that gives the correct time.

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Stephen K. Amos

Stephen Kehinde Amos (born 3 December 1967)https://www.facebook.com/stephenkamos/posts/10153377148827991 is an English stand-up comedian and television personality.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

Tara Claire Palmer-Tomkinson (23 December 1971 – 8 February 2017), also known as T P-T, was an English socialite and television personality.

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Teaching Awards

The Teaching Awards is an annual teacher awards ceremony in the United Kingdom.

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Teddy Pendergrass

Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) was an American singer.

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The Black and White Minstrel Show

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran on BBC television from 1958 to 1978.

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The Blue Coat School, Dudley

The Blue Coat School was a mixed secondary school located in Dudley, England.

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The Catherine Tate Show

The Catherine Tate Show is a British television sketch comedy written by Catherine Tate and Aschlin Ditta.

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The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays.

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The Comic Strip

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians who came to prominence in the 1980s.

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The Cops Don't Know

The Cops Don't Know is the first track and single from New Millennium Blues album by Lenny Henry.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Enormous Crocodile

The Enormous Crocodile is a 1978 children's story, written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

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The Fosters (1976 TV series)

The Fosters is a British television programme, produced by London Weekend Television which aired on ITV from 9 April 1976, until 9 July 1977.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The King's Speech

The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler.

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The Lenny Henry Show

The Lenny Henry Show is a comedy sketch show (and in its 1987-88 incarnation, a sitcom) featuring Lenny Henry.

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The Magicians (UK TV series)

The Magicians was a British family entertainment television show, first broadcast throughout January 2011 on BBC One.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (released in North America, Australia and New Zealand as The Pirates! Band of Misfits) is a 2012 British-American 3D stop-motion animated swashbuckler comedy film produced by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation as their second and final collaborative project.

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The Red Shoes (album)

The Red Shoes is the seventh studio album by the English musician Kate Bush.

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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui), subtitled "A parable play", is a 1941 play by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht.

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The Secret Policeman's Ball

The Secret Policeman's Ball is the name informally used for the long-running series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International.

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The Shining (film)

The Shining is a 1980 horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson.

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The Sun (United Kingdom)

The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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The Syndicate

The Syndicate is a British television drama series.

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The Young Ones (TV series)

The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series.

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Three of a Kind (TV series)

Three of a Kind is a British comedy sketch show starring comedians Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry and David Copperfield.

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Tina Turner

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and author.

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Tiswas

Tiswas ("Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile") is a children's British television series which originally aired on Saturday mornings from 5 January 1974 to 3 April 1982 and was produced for the ITV network by ATV Network Limited.

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Trafalgar Studios

Trafalgar Studios, formerly the Whitehall Theatre until 2004, is a West End theatre in Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London.

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Trevor McDonald

Sir Trevor McDonald, (born George McDonald; 16 August 1939) is a Trinidadian-British newsreader and journalist, best known for his career as a news presenter with ITN.

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True Identity

True Identity is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Charles Lane and starring Lenny Henry, Frank Langella and Anne-Marie Johnson.

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United Kingdom general election, 1987

The 1987 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 11 June 1987, to elect 650 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile is a wireless communications brand used by eight independent brand-licensees worldwide.

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West Bromwich Albion F.C.

West Bromwich Albion Football Club, also known as West Brom, The Baggies, The Throstles, Albion or simply WBA, is an English professional football club based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is an area of Central and West London in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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Whitehall

Whitehall is a road in the City of Westminster, Central London, which forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.

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Worcestershire

Worcestershire (written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England.

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Work Experience (film)

Work Experience is a 1989 British short comedy film directed by James Hendrie.

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Working men's club

Working men's clubs are a type of private social club first created in the 19th century in industrialised areas of the United Kingdom, particularly the North of England, the Midlands, Scotland and many parts of the South Wales Valleys, to provide recreation and education for working class men and their families.

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Yorkshire Evening Post

The Yorkshire Evening Post is a daily evening publication (delivered to newsagents every morning) published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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1999 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1999 for the United Kingdom were announced on 30 December 1998, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1999.

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2015 Birthday Honours

The 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Henry

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