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Prunella Margaret Scales (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932), is an English actress best known for her role as Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers and her BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett. [1]

104 relations: A Pocket Full of Rye, A Question of Attribution, Abinger, Academy Awards, Advertising, After Henry (radio series), Agatha Christie, Alan Bennett, Albert, Prince Consort, Alzheimer's disease, Apollo Theatre, Australia, Basil Fawlty, BBC Radio 4, BBC Television Shakespeare, Bideford, Bridget Turner, Bristol Old Vic, British Academy Film Awards, Cabin Pressure (radio series), Campaign to Protect Rural England, Carrie's War, Channel 4, Children in Need, Chris Barfoot, Cornwall, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Devon, E. F. Benson, Eastbourne, Elizabeth II, Emily Mortimer, Escape from the Dark, Fawlty Towers, Fowey, Gioachino Rossini, Gray wolf, Great Canal Journeys, Hobson's Choice (1954 film), Horrid Henry: The Movie, Hotel Babylon, Howards End, Ian Partridge, Jane Horrocks, Joe Orton, John Cleese, Jonathan Dimbleby, La gazza ladra, Lace Market Theatre, ..., Ladies of Letters, London, London Weekend Television, Mapp and Lucia (1985 TV series), Marriage Lines, Max Hastings, Maximilian Schell, NBCUniversal, Nina Bawden, Nottingham, Order of the British Empire, P&O Cruises, Queen Victoria, Reach plc, Richard Briers, Richard Wilson (Scottish actor), Roedean Moira House, Ronnie Barker, Room at the Top (1959 film), Rumpole of the Bailey, Samuel West, Sara Sugarman, Science fiction, Screen One, Seven of One, Short film, Sitcom, Smelling of Roses, SOS Children's Villages, Stephen Moyer, Stiff Upper Lips, Supermarket, Surrey, Sybil Fawlty, Syfy, Tesco, The Boys from Brazil (film), The Guardian, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film), The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Shell Seekers (film), The Wicked Lady (1983 film), Theatre Night, Timothy West, Vanessa Redgrave, Waltz of the Toreadors (film), What the Butler Saw (play), Wireless Theatre Company, World War II, 1984 Birthday Honours, 1992 Birthday Honours, 2011 in film, 3D film. Expand index (54 more) »

A Pocket Full of Rye

A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953,.

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A Question of Attribution

A Question of Attribution is a 1988 one-act stage play, written by Alan Bennett.

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Abinger

Abinger is a large, well-wooded and mostly rural civil parish that lies between the settlements of Dorking, Shere and Ewhurst in the district of Mole Valley, Surrey, England.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Advertising

Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.

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After Henry (radio series)

After Henry is a British sitcom written by Simon Brett.

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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author.

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Albert, Prince Consort

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria.

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Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.

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Apollo Theatre

The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, in central London.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Basil Fawlty

Basil Fawlty is the main character of the British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese.

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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 Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television.

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Bideford

Bideford is a historic port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, south-west England.

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Bridget Turner

Bridget Joanna Turner (22 February 1939 – 27 December 2014) was an English actress, born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

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Bristol Old Vic

Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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Cabin Pressure (radio series)

Cabin Pressure is a radio sitcom written and created by John Finnemore and directed and produced by David Tyler.

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Campaign to Protect Rural England

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is a registered charity in England with over 40,000 members and supporters.

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Carrie's War

Carrie's War is a 1973 British children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Children in Need

BBC Children in Need (also promoted as Plant Mewn Angen in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity.

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Chris Barfoot

Chris Barfoot (born Christopher John Barfoot, 7 September 1966) is a British actor, writer/director and producer of film productions.

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Cornwall

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

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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E. F. Benson

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Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a town, seaside resort and borough in the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex on the south coast of England, east of Brighton.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Emily Mortimer

Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 1 December 1971) is an English actress and screenwriter.

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Escape from the Dark

Escape from the Dark (American title: The Littlest Horse Thieves) is a 1976 British-American family drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions, directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Alastair Sim (in his final film role), Peter Barkworth and Maurice Colbourne.

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Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979.

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Fowey

Fowey (Fowydh, meaning 'Beech Trees') is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces.

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Gray wolf

The gray wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf,Paquet, P. & Carbyn, L. W. (2003).

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Great Canal Journeys

Great Canal Journeys is a Channel 4 television series in which husband and wife Timothy West and Prunella Scales take canal barge and narrowboat trips in the United Kingdom and Europe, and in series seven India.

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Hobson's Choice (1954 film)

Hobson's Choice is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean.

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Horrid Henry: The Movie

Horrid Henry: The Movie is a 2011 British 3D children's adventure comedy film directed by Nick Moore and produced by Allan Niblo, Rupert Preston, Mike Watts, and Lucinda Whiteley, who wrote it.

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Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon was a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One.

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Howards End

Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England.

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Ian Partridge

Ian Partridge (born 12 June 1938) is a retired English lyric tenor, whose repertoire ranged from Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, the Elizabethan lute songs, German, French and English songs, through to Schoenberg, Weill and Britten, and on to contemporary works.

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Jane Horrocks

Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is an English actress, voice artist, musician and singer, who played the roles of Bubble and Katy Grin in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012).

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Joe Orton

John Kingsley "Joe" Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967) was an English playwright and author.

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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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Jonathan Dimbleby

Jonathan Dimbleby (born 31 July 1944) is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, an author and historian.

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La gazza ladra

La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is a melodramma or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on La pie voleuse by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez.

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Lace Market Theatre

The Lace Market Theatre is a small, independent amateur theatre, located in Nottingham, England.

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Ladies of Letters

Ladies of Letters is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales, based on the series of books of the same name written by Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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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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Mapp and Lucia (1985 TV series)

Mapp and Lucia is a British television series, set in the fictional Sussex coastal town of Tilling-on-Sea and based on three 1930s novels by E. F. Benson.

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Marriage Lines

Marriage Lines is a British television sitcom first broadcast between 1963 and 1966.

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Max Hastings

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard.

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Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was an Austrian-born Swiss film and stage actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films.

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NBCUniversal

NBCUniversal, Inc. is an American multinational media conglomerate owned by Comcast, headquartered at Rockefeller Plaza's Comcast Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Nina Bawden

Nina Bawden CBE FRSL JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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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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P&O Cruises

P&O Cruises is a British/American cruise line based at Carnival House in Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Reach plc

Reach plc (formerly known as Trinity Mirror between 1999 and 2018) is a British newspaper, magazine and digital publisher.

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Richard Briers

Richard David Briers (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor.

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Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)

Richard Wilson (born Iain Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster.

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Roedean Moira House

Roedean Moira House, formerly Moira House School, is an independent day and boarding school for girls aged 6 weeks to 18 years.

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Ronnie Barker

Ronald William George Barker, (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer.

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Room at the Top (1959 film)

Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine.

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Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey was a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer.

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Samuel West

Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is a third-generation English actor, theatre director and voice actor.

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Sara Sugarman

Sara Sugarman (born 13 October 1962) is a Welsh actress and film director whose work includes Disney's Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) and Very Annie Mary (2001).

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screen One

Screen One is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 between 1989 and 1993.

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Seven of One

Seven of One is a British comedy series that aired on BBC2 in 1973.

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Short film

A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Smelling of Roses

Smelling of Roses was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Prunella Scales and written by Simon Brett.

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SOS Children's Villages

SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental international development organisation which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children since 1949.

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Stephen Moyer

Stephen Moyer (born Stephen John Emery; 11 October 1969) is an English film and television actor and director who is best known as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series True Blood.

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Stiff Upper Lips

Stiff Upper Lips is a 1998 film directed by Gary Sinyor and starring Sean Pertwee, Georgina Cates, Robert Portal, Samuel West, Prunella Scales, and Peter Ustinov.

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Supermarket

A supermarket is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food and household products, organized into aisles.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Sybil Fawlty

Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers.

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Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Tesco

Tesco plc, trading as Tesco, is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.

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The Boys from Brazil (film)

The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 British-American science fiction thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1978 British comedy film spoofing The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is a 1987 drama film made by HandMade Films Ltd. and United British Artists (UBA) starring Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597.

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The Shell Seekers (film)

The Shell Seekers (Die Muschelsucher) is a 2006 mini-series starring Academy Award-winners, Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell.

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The Wicked Lady (1983 film)

The Wicked Lady is a 1983 British drama film directed by Michael Winner.

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Theatre Night

Theatre Night is the umbrella title under which adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays were usually broadcast on BBC 2 between 15 September 1985 and 21 July 1990.

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Timothy West

Timothy Lancaster West, CBE (born 20 October 1934) is an English film, stage and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business.

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Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, and a political activist.

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Waltz of the Toreadors (film)

Waltz of the Toreadors is a 1962 film directed by John Guillermin and based on the play of the same name by Jean Anouilh with the location changed from France to England.

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What the Butler Saw (play)

What the Butler Saw is a farce written by the English playwright Joe Orton.

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Wireless Theatre Company

The Wireless Theatre Company is an online audio theatre company specializing in creating modern audio drama.

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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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1984 Birthday Honours

Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

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1992 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in the Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

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2011 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 2011 in film, including the highest-grossing films, film festivals, award ceremonies and a list of films released and notable deaths.

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3D film

A three-dimensional stereoscopic film (also known as three-dimensional sangu, 3D film or S3D film) is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception, hence adding a third dimension.

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References

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