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N. F. Simpson

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Norman Frederick "N. [1]

88 relations: Adult education, Alison Leggatt, Angela Thorne, Anton Chekhov, Arts Theatre, BBC, BBC Home Service, BBC One, BBC Radio, BBC Radio 4, BBC Television, BBC Third Programme, BBC Two, Beryl Reid, BFI Southbank, Birkbeck, University of London, Cornwall, Cyprus, David Nobbs, Deryck Guyler, Diamonds for Breakfast (film), Dick Emery, Donmar Warehouse, Douglas Hodge, E. L. Wisty, Eduardo De Filippo, Edward VIII abdication crisis, Eleanor Bron, Emanuel School, English literature, Eric Sykes, Eugène Ionesco, Frank Muir, George Cole (actor), Harold Pinter, Hattie Jacques, Ian MacNaughton, Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom), ITV (TV network), ITV Granada, Jack Shepherd (actor), James Thurber, Jermyn Street Theatre, John Bird (actor), John Cleese, John Fortune, John Mortimer, John Wells (satirist), Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Miller, ..., Kenneth Tynan, Kenneth Williams, Lewis Carroll, Mandatory Palestine, Mike Newell (director), Monty Python's Flying Circus, N. F. Simpson, Ned Sherrin, Nigel Davenport, One Over The Eight, One Way Pendulum (play), P. G. Wodehouse, Peter Blake (artist), Peter Capaldi, Peter Cook, Peter Tinniswood, Peter Yates, Playwright, Richard Vernon, Royal Artillery, Royal Court Theatre, Royal National Theatre, Sam Shepard, Sherlock Holmes, Snoo Wilson, Summer Holiday (1963 film), That Was the Week That Was, The Bear (play), The Goon Show, The Hole (play), The Observer, Theatre of the Absurd, Tony Richardson, Union Theatre, London, University of London, Wendy Craig, Willie Rushton, World War II. Expand index (38 more) »

Adult education

Adult education is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values.

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Alison Leggatt

Alison Leggatt (7 February 1904 – 15 July 1990) was an English character actress.

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Angela Thorne

Angela Thorne (born 25 January 1939) is an English actress of stage, television and film who is best known for her roles in To the Manor Born, as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton's best friend Marjory Frobisher, and as Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis?.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Arts Theatre

The Arts Theatre is a theatre in Great Newport Street, in Westminster, Central London.

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BBC

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

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BBC Home Service

The BBC Home Service was a British national radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it became the current BBC Radio 4.

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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 Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927).

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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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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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BBC Third Programme

The BBC Third Programme was a national radio service produced and broadcast by the BBC between 1946 and 1970.

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BBC Two

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

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Beryl Reid

Beryl Elizabeth Reid, OBE (17 June 1919 – 13 October 1996) was a British actress of stage and screen.

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BFI Southbank

BFI Southbank (from 1951 to 2007 known as the National Film Theatre) is the leading repertory cinema in the UK, specialising in seasons of classic, independent and non-English language films.

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Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London (formally, Birkbeck College; informally, Birkbeck), is a public research university located in Bloomsbury, London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Cyprus

Cyprus (Κύπρος; Kıbrıs), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean.

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David Nobbs

David Gordon Nobbs (13 March 1935 – 8 August 2015, The Guardian, 11 September 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.) was an English comedy writer, best known for writing the 1970s series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels.

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Deryck Guyler

Deryck Guyler (29 April 1914 – 7 October 1999) was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of officious, short-tempered middle-aged men in sitcoms such as Please Sir! and Sykes.

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Diamonds for Breakfast (film)

Diamonds for Breakfast is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Christopher Morahan.

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Dick Emery

Richard Gilbert Emery (19 February 19152 January 1983) was an English comedian and actor.

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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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Douglas Hodge

Douglas Hodge (born 25 February 1960) is an English actor, director, and musician who trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

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E. L. Wisty

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Eduardo De Filippo

Eduardo De Filippo (24 May 1900 – 31 October 1984), also known simply as Eduardo was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria.

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Edward VIII abdication crisis

In 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second.

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Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author.

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Emanuel School

Emanuel School is an independent, co-educational day school in Battersea, south-west London.

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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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Eric Sykes

Eric Sykes, (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years.

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Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu,; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre.

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Frank Muir

Frank Herbert Muir, CBE (5 February 1920 – 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur.

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George Cole (actor)

George Edward Cole (22 April 1925 – 5 August 2015) was an English actor whose career spanned more than 70 years.

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.

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Hattie Jacques

Hattie Jacques (born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen.

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Ian MacNaughton

Edward Ian Macnaughton (30 December 1925 – 10 December 2002) was a Scottish actor-turned-television producer and director, best known for his work with the Monty Python team.

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Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)

The Intelligence Corps (Int Corps) is a corps of the British Army.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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ITV Granada

ITV Granada (formerly Granada Television; informally Granada) is the Channel 3 regional service for North West England and the Isle of Man.

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Jack Shepherd (actor)

Jack Shepherd (born 29 October 1940) is an English actor, playwright, theatre director, saxophone player and jazz pianist.

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James Thurber

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit.

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Jermyn Street Theatre

Jermyn Street Theatre is a performance venue situated in Jermyn Street, in London's West End.

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John Bird (actor)

John Bird (born 22 November 1936) is an English satirist, actor and comedian, best known for his work with John Fortune.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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John Fortune

John Fortune (born John C. Wood; 30 June 1939 – 31 December 2013) was an English satirist, comedian, writer, and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune.

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John Mortimer

Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author.

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John Wells (satirist)

John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist.

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Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer.

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Jonathan Miller

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor.

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Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer.

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Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English actor, best known for his comedy roles and in later life as a raconteur and diarist.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine (فلسطين; פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א"י), where "EY" indicates "Eretz Yisrael", Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity under British administration, carved out of Ottoman Syria after World War I. British civil administration in Palestine operated from 1920 until 1948.

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Mike Newell (director)

Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for film and television.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974.

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N. F. Simpson

Norman Frederick "N.

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Ned Sherrin

Edward George "Ned" Sherrin, CBE (18 February 1931 – 1 October 2007) was an English broadcaster, author and stage director.

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Nigel Davenport

Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.

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One Over The Eight

One Over the Eight was a comedy revue performed on April 5, 1960.

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One Way Pendulum (play)

One Way Pendulum, described on the title page as "A Farce in a New Dimension", is a play by N. F. Simpson.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Peter Blake (artist)

Sir Peter Thomas Blake, CBE, RDI, RA (born 25 June 1932) is an English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Peter Capaldi

Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director.

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian.

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Peter Tinniswood

Peter Tinniswood (21 December 1936 – 9 January 2003) was an English radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author of a series of popular cricketing novels.

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Peter Yates

Peter James Yates (24 July 1929 – 9 January 2011) was an English film director and producer.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Richard Vernon

Richard Vernon (7 March 1925 – 4 December 1997) was a British actor.

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Royal Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is the artillery arm of the British Army.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

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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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Sam Shepard

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017), known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose body of work spanned half a century.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Snoo Wilson

Andrew James Wilson (2 August 1948 – 3 July 2013), better known as Snoo Wilson, was an English playwright, screenwriter and director.

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Summer Holiday (1963 film)

Summer Holiday is a British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film featuring singer Cliff Richard.

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That Was the Week That Was

That Was the Week That Was, informally TWTWTW or TW3, was a satirical television comedy programme on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963.

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The Bear (play)

The Bear: A Joke in One Act, or The Boor (Medved': Shutka v odnom deystvii, 1888), is a one-act comedic play written by Russian author Anton Chekhov.

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The Goon Show

The Goon Show was a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme.

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The Hole (play)

The Hole is an absurdist play published in 1958, written by N.F. Simpson, a British playwright associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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Theatre of the Absurd

The Theatre of the Absurd (théâtre de l'absurde) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s, as well as one for the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.

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Tony Richardson

Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer whose career spanned five decades.

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Union Theatre, London

The Union Theatre is a fringe theatre situated in the borough of Southwark in London, England.

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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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Wendy Craig

Anne Gwendolyn "Wendy" Craig (born 20 June 1934) is an English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms Not in Front of the Children, Butterflies,...And Mother Makes Three and...And Mother Makes Five.

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Willie Rushton

William George Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._F._Simpson

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