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Ronnie Barker

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Ronald William George Barker, (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer. [1]

229 relations: A Home of Your Own, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Adderbury, Afternoon Drama, Alan Bennett, Alec Guinness, Alun Owen, Anthony Hayward, Antiques Roadshow, Armchair Theatre, Arts Theatre, Avenue of Stars, London, Aylesbury, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Banbury, Barry Cryer, BBC, BBC News, BBC One, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, BBC Two, Bedford, Before the Fringe, Ben Elton, Benny Hill, Bill Cotton, Black comedy, Bramhall, Britain's Best Sitcom, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance, British Academy Television Awards, British Comedy Awards, British Film Institute, By the Sea (1982 film), Cambridge, Camino Real (play), Celia Johnson, Chain smoking, Channel 4, Charley's Aunt, Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Drake, Charlotte Barker, Chipping Norton, Church Cowley Road, Citizen James, City of Oxford High School for Boys, Clarence (UK TV series), ..., Class sketch, Comedy Playhouse, Coronary artery bypass surgery, Cottage to Let, Cowley, Oxfordshire, Daily Mail, David Frost, David Jason, David Paradine Productions, Dawn French, Dean, Oxfordshire, Dick Clement, Doctor in Distress (film), Donald McGill, Double entendre, Edward Lear, Faces of Jim, Falstaff, Father Came Too!, Foreign Affairs (1966 TV series), Four Candles, Frank Muir, Friar Tuck, Futtocks End, Galton and Simpson, Gaslight Theatre (TV series), Gene Wilder, Gentleness, George Street, Oxford, Going Straight, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hamlet, Hark at Barker, Harry H. Corbett, Hayes, Hillingdon, HBO, He Who Gets Slapped, Heart failure, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V (play), Henry VIII of England, His Lordship Entertains, Hospice, How to be an Alien, Ian La Frenais, Improvisational theatre, Insult comedy, Irma La Douce (musical), It's a Square World, ITV (TV network), J. M. Barrie, James Gilbert (producer), Jimmy Edwards, John Cleese, Josephine Tewson, Joyce Grenfell, June Whitfield, Kerry Packer, Kill or Cure (1962 film), King's Head Theatre, Laugh track, Laurence Olivier, Lenny Henry, Les Dawson, Leslie Phillips, Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher, Literacy, Little Red Riding Hood, London Palladium, London Weekend Television, Maggie Smith, Martin Jennings, Maxine Peake, Michael Grade, Michael Palin, Morecambe and Wise, Mourning Becomes Electra, My House in Umbria, News presenter, Nick Bottom, Nine Network, Noël Coward, Norman Stanley Fletcher, Not Only... But Also, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Observational comedy, Open All Hours, Order of the British Empire, Oxford Playhouse, Oxfordshire, Palace Theatre, London, Paul Fox (television executive), Penzance, Peter Eade, Peter Hall (director), Peter Kay, Pierrot, Pinner, Play of the Month, Poliomyelitis, Porridge (film), Porridge (TV series), Precancerous condition, Pulmonary embolism, Quality Street (play), Repertory theatre, Rhyl, Rhyming slang, Ribaldry, Richard Beckinsale, Richard Briers, Richard Lester, Richard Loncraine, Richard the Second, Robin and Marian, Ronnie Corbett, Rose d'Or, Roy Clarke, Royal Command Performance, Royal Court Theatre, Royal Dutch Shell, Royal National Theatre, Royal Television Society, Runaway Railway, Sam Kelly, School Certificate (United Kingdom), Secular humanism, Seven of One, Shock humour, Sitcom, Six Dates with Barker, Social class in the United Kingdom, Spoonerism, Stella Richman, Stephen Fry, Sykes and a..., T. E. Lawrence, Television Centre, London, The Avengers (TV series), The Bargee, The Big Show (TV series), The Cracksman, The Daily Telegraph, The Frost Report, The Gathering Storm (2002 film), The Guardian, The Guinea Pig (Chetham-Strode), The Independent, The Magnificent Evans, The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, The Man Outside (1967 film), The Navy Lark, The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything, The Picnic, The Real Inspector Hound, The Ronnie Barker Playhouse, The Saint (TV series), The Sun (United Kingdom), The Times, The Two Ronnies, The Two Ronnies Sketchbook, Theatre 625, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Tom Stoppard, Treasure Island, Two Fat Ladies, Variety, the Children's Charity, Ventriloquism, Victoria and Albert Museum, West End theatre, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Bank, When We Are Married, Winston Churchill, Wogan, Wonderful Things!, Young Vic. Expand index (179 more) »

A Home of Your Own

A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96.

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Adderbury

Adderbury is a winding linear village and rural civil parish about south of Banbury in northern Oxfordshire, England.

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Afternoon Drama

The Afternoon Drama (formerly Afternoon Play) is a BBC Radio 4 radio drama, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm.

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Alan Bennett

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

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Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor.

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Alun Owen

Alun Davies Owen (24 November 1925 – 6 December 1994) was a Welsh screenwriter and actor predominantly active in television.

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Anthony Hayward

Anthony Hayward (born 26 October 1959) is a British journalist and author.

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Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow is a British television show in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom (and occasionally in other countries) to appraise antiques brought in by local people.

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Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974.

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Arts Theatre

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

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Avenue of Stars, London

The Avenue of Stars was a version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame in London, England.

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Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Aylesbury Waterside Theatre

Aylesbury Waterside Theatre is a £47 million theatre in Aylesbury, England, United Kingdom presenting a range of West End and touring musicals and plays, along with performances of opera and ballet and a Christmas pantomime.

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Banbury

Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England.

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Barry Cryer

Barry Charles Cryer OBE (born 23 March 1935) is an English writer, comedian and actor.

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BBC

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

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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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 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.

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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 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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Bedford

Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, England.

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Before the Fringe

Before the Fringe was a BBC television series which ran for two series on BBC2 in 1967.

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Ben Elton

Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is a British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director.

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Benny Hill

Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian and actor, best remembered for his television programme The Benny Hill Show, an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque, and double entendre in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with him at the focus of almost every segment.

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Bill Cotton

Sir William Frederick "Bill" Cotton, CBE (23 April 1928 – 11 August 2008) was a British television producer and executive, and the son of big-band leader Billy Cotton.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Bramhall

Bramhall is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

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Britain's Best Sitcom

Britain's Best Sitcom was a BBC media campaign in which television viewers were asked to decide the best British situation comedy.

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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 Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance

The British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance is an award given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at their annual BAFTA Television Awards ceremony.

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British Academy Television Awards

The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTA TV Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

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British Comedy Awards

The British Comedy Awards were an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.

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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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By the Sea (1982 film)

By the Sea (full title The Two Ronnies Present - By the Sea), is a 1982 BBC television film starring The Two Ronnies, and written by Ronnie Barker under the pseudonyms "Dave Huggett and Larry Keith".

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Camino Real (play)

Camino Real is a 1953 play by Tennessee Williams.

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Celia Johnson

Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, (18 December 1908 – 26 April 1982) was an English actress, known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Captain's Paradise (1953).

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Chain smoking

Chain smoking is the practice of smoking several cigarettes in succession, sometimes using the ember of a finished cigarette to light the next.

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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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Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Charlie Drake

Charles Edward Springall (19 June 1925 – 23 December 2006), known professionally as Charlie Drake, was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer.

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Charlotte Barker

Charlotte Barker (born 1962) is a British actress.

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Chipping Norton

Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about southwest of Banbury and northwest of Oxford.

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Church Cowley Road

Church Cowley Road is a major road in Cowley, Oxford, England, leading from Rose Hill to Cowley Centre.

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Citizen James

Citizen James is a BBC sitcom that ran for three series between 24 November 1960 and 23 November 1962.

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City of Oxford High School for Boys

The City of Oxford High School for Boys (a.k.a. Oxford High School for Boys and City of Oxford School) was founded in 1881 by Thomas Hill Green to provide Oxford boys with an education which would enable them to prepare for University.

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Clarence (UK TV series)

Clarence is a 1988 BBC situation comedy starring Ronnie Barker and Josephine Tewson, written by Ronnie Barker under the pseudonym "Bob Ferris" as an acknowledgement to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, creators of Porridge.

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Class sketch

The Class sketch is a comedy sketch first broadcast in an episode of David Frost's satirical comedy programme The Frost Report on 7 April 1966.

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Comedy Playhouse

Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975.

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Coronary artery bypass surgery

Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, pronounced "cabbage") surgery, and colloquially heart bypass or bypass surgery, is a surgical procedure to restore normal blood flow to an obstructed coronary artery.

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Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let is a 1941 spy film starring Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim and John Mills.

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Cowley, Oxfordshire

Cowley in Oxford, England, is a residential and industrial area that forms a small conurbation within greater Oxford.

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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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David Frost

Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer.

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David Jason

Sir David John White, (born 2 February 1940), known professionally by his stage name David Jason, is a British actor known especially for his comedic roles.

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David Paradine Productions

David Paradine Productions is a television production company founded by David Frost as 'David Paradine Ltd' in 1966.

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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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Dean, Oxfordshire

Dean is a hamlet in Spelsbury civil parish, about north of Charlbury and southeast of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

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Dick Clement

Dick Clement, OBE (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais.

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Doctor in Distress (film)

Doctor in Distress is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, and Samantha Eggar.

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Donald McGill

Donald Fraser Gould McGill (28 January 1875 – 13 October 1962) was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with the genre of saucy seaside postcards that were sold mostly in small shops in British coastal towns.

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Double entendre

A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in two ways, having a double meaning.

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Edward Lear

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.

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Faces of Jim

Faces of Jim was a black-and-white British comedy television series starring Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield and Ronnie Barker, with each episode being an individual half-hour sitcom.

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Falstaff

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who is mentioned in four plays by William Shakespeare and appears on stage in three of them.

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Father Came Too!

Father Came Too! is a 1964 British comedy film directed by Peter Graham Scott.

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Foreign Affairs (1966 TV series)

Foreign Affairs is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 in 1966.

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Four Candles

Four Candles is a sketch from the BBC comedy show The Two Ronnies, written by Ronnie Barker under the pseudonym of Gerald Wiley and first broadcast on 18 September 1976.

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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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Friar Tuck

Friar Tuck is a companion to Robin Hood in the legends about that character.

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Futtocks End

Futtocks End is a British comedy film released in 1970, directed by Bob Kellett.

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Galton and Simpson

Ray Galton OBE (born 17 July 1930), and Alan Simpson OBE (27 November 1929 – 8 February 2017), were an English comedy scriptwriting partnership.

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Gaslight Theatre (TV series)

Gaslight Theatre (TV series) is a 60-minute UK anthology television series produced by and airing on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1965.

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Gene Wilder

Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author.

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Gentleness

Gentleness is the value and quality of one's character.

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George Street, Oxford

George Street is a street in central Oxford, England.

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Going Straight

Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had been set.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an American actress, singer, and food writer.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Hark at Barker

Hark at Barker is a 1969 British comedy series combining elements of sitcom and sketch show, which starred Ronnie Barker.

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Harry H. Corbett

Harry H. Corbett, OBE (28 February 1925 – 21 March 1982) was an English actor.

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Hayes, Hillingdon

Hayes is a town in West London, situated west of Charing Cross.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 American silent drama film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert, and directed by Victor Sjöström.

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Heart failure

Heart failure (HF), often referred to as congestive heart failure (CHF), is when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs.

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Henry IV, Part 1

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597.

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Henry IV, Part 2

Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599.

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Henry V (play)

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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His Lordship Entertains

His Lordship Entertains was Ronnie Barker's second sitcom vehicle for his Lord Rustless character, first seen three years earlier in Hark at Barker on ITV.

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Hospice

Hospice care is a type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs.

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How to be an Alien

How to be an Alien (1946) is a humorous book by George Mikes, illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.

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Ian La Frenais

Ian La Frenais, OBE (born 7 January 1936) is an English writer best known for his creative partnership with Dick Clement.

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Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre, often called improv or impro, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers.

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Insult comedy

Insult comedy is a comedy genre in which the act consists mainly of offensive insults directed at the performer's audience or other performers.

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Irma La Douce (musical)

Irma la douce is a 1956 French musical with music by Marguerite Monnot and lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort.

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It's a Square World

It's a Square World is a British comedy television series starring Michael Bentine and produced by the BBC.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

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James Gilbert (producer)

Cecil James "Jimmy" Gilbert (15 May 1923 – 7 July 2016) was a Scottish television producer, director and executive for the BBC.

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Jimmy Edwards

James Keith O'Neill Edwards, DFC (23 March 19207 July 1988) was an English comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in Whack-O!.

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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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Josephine Tewson

Josephine Ann Tewson (born 26 February 1931) is an English stage and television actress.

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Joyce Grenfell

Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was a British comedian, singer, actress and monologist, and one of the country's best loved entertainers, immortalised in roles such as the gym mistress Miss Gossage in the 1950 film The Happiest Days of Your Life and Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's films.

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June Whitfield

Dame June Rosemary Whitfield, (born 11 November 1925) is an English actress.

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Kerry Packer

Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon.

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Kill or Cure (1962 film)

Kill or Cure is a 1962 British comedy film, in which an inept private investigator is called to look into the strange goings-on at a health club.

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King's Head Theatre

The King's Head Theatre, founded in 1970 by Dan Crawford, is an off-West End venue in London.

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Laugh track

A laugh track (or laughter track) is a separate soundtrack for a recorded comedy show containing the sound of audience laughter.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Lenny Henry

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.

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Les Dawson

Leslie Dawson Jr. (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, who is best remembered for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.

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Leslie Phillips

Leslie Samuel Phillips, (born 20 April 1924) is an English actor who came to prominence in films in the 1950s, acting as a suave charmer with an exaggerated upper class accent, in the style of Terry-Thomas.

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Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher is a BBC Television comedy docudrama, first shown in 2003, that depicts the later life of Norman Stanley Fletcher, the main character in two earlier television series, Porridge and Going Straight.

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Literacy

Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write.

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Little Red Riding Hood

"Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf.

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London Palladium

The London Palladium is a 2,286-seat Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street in the City of Westminster.

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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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Maggie Smith

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress.

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Martin Jennings

Martin Jennings is a British sculptor, born in 1957, who works in the figurative tradition.

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Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English actress.

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Michael Grade

Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth, (born 8 March 1943) is an English television executive and businessman.

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Michael Palin

Michael Edward Palin (pronounced; born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter.

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Morecambe and Wise

Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (also Eric and Ernie), were an iconic English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television.

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Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill.

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My House in Umbria

My House in Umbria is a 2003 HBO made-for-television movie, based on the novella of the same name by William Trevor and published along with another novella in the volume Two Lives.

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News presenter

A news presenter – also known as a newsreader, newscaster (short for "news broadcaster"), anchorman or anchorwoman, news anchor or simply an anchor – is a person who presents news during a news program on the television, on the radio or on the Internet.

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Nick Bottom

Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play.

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Nine Network

The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Norman Stanley Fletcher

Norman Stanley "Fletch" Fletcher is the main fictional character in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge, and the spin-off, Going Straight.

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Not Only... But Also

Not Only...

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Not the Nine O'Clock News

Not the Nine O'Clock News was a British television comedy sketch show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982.

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Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC) is an internationally renowned orthopaedic hospital, with strong affiliations to the University of Oxford.

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Observational comedy

Observational comedy is a form of humor based on the commonplace aspects of everyday life.

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Open All Hours

Open All Hours is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC.

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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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Oxford Playhouse

Oxford Playhouse (often just known as the Playhouse by locals) is an independent theatre designed by Sir Edward Maufe.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Palace Theatre, London

The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London.

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Paul Fox (television executive)

Sir Paul Leonard Fox, CBE (born 27 October 1925) is a British television executive, who spent much of his broadcasting career working for BBC Television, most prominently as the Controller of BBC1 between 1967 and 1973.

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Penzance

Penzance (Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, in England, United Kingdom.

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Peter Eade

Peter John Aylmer Eade (11 March 1919 - 25 April 1979) was an English theatrical agent most well known for his representation of individuals such as Kenneth Williams, Ronnie Barker, and Joan Sims.

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Peter Hall (director)

Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE (22 November 1930 11 September 2017) was an English theatre, opera and film director whose obituary in The Times declared him "the most important figure in British theatre for half a century" and on his death a Royal National Theatre statement declared that Hall’s "influence on the artistic life of Britain in the 20th century was unparalleled".

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Peter Kay

Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973) is an English comedian and actor.

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Pierrot

Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne; the name is a diminutive of Pierre (Peter), via the suffix -ot. His character in contemporary popular culture—in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall—is that of the sad clown, pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin.

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Pinner

Pinner is a village in the London Borough of Harrow in northwest London, England, from Charing Cross.

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Play of the Month

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (or adaptations) which were usually broadcast on BBC1.

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Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.

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Porridge (film)

Porridge is a 1979 film based on the television series Porridge.

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Porridge (TV series)

Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to 1977.

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Precancerous condition

A precancerous condition or premalignant condition, sometimes called a potentially precancerous condition or potentially premalignant condition, is a term used to describe certain conditions or lesions involving abnormal cells which are associated with an increased risk of developing into cancer.

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Pulmonary embolism

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage of an artery in the lungs by a substance that has moved from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream (embolism).

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Quality Street (play)

Quality Street is a comedy in four acts by J. M. Barrie, written before his more famous work Peter Pan.

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Repertory theatre

A repertory theatre (also called repertory, rep or stock) can be a Western theatre or opera production in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation or rotation.

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Rhyl

Rhyl (Y Rhyl) is a Welsh seaside resort town and community in the county of Denbighshire.

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Rhyming slang

Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language that uses rhyme.

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Ribaldry

Ribaldry, or blue comedy, is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to gross indecency.

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Richard Beckinsale

Richard Arthur Beckinsale (6 July 1947 – 19 March 1979) was an English actor, who played Lennie Godber in the BBC sitcom Porridge (along with its sequel series Going Straight) and Alan Moore in the British ITV sitcom Rising Damp.

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Richard Briers

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

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Richard Lester

Richard Lester (born Richard Lester Liebman; January 19, 1932) is an American film director based in Britain.

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Richard Loncraine

Richard Loncraine (born 20 October 1946) is a British film and television director.

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Richard the Second

Richard the Second is a 2001 American film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Richard II, directed by John Farrell.

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Robin and Marian

Robin and Marian is a 1976 British-American romantic adventure period film from Columbia Pictures, shot in Panavision and Technicolor, that was directed by Richard Lester and written by James Goldman, based on the legend of Robin Hood.

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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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Rose d'Or

The Rose d'Or (Golden Rose) is an international awards festival in entertainment broadcasting and programming.

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Roy Clarke

Royston Clarke OBE (born 28 January 1930) is an English comedy writer best known for creating the sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours and its sequel series, Still Open All Hours.

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Royal Command Performance

A Royal Command Performance in the United Kingdom is any performance by actors or musicians that occurs at the direction or request of a reigning monarch.

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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 Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.

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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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Runaway Railway

Runaway Railway is a 1965 British family adventure film directed by Jan Darnley-Smith and starring John Moulder-Brown, Kevin Bennett, Ronnie Barker and Graham Stark.

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Sam Kelly

Roger Michael Kelly (19 December 1943 – 14 June 2014), known by the stage name Sam Kelly, was an English actor who appeared in film, television, radio and theatre.

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School Certificate (United Kingdom)

The United Kingdom School Certificate was an educational attainment standard qualification, established in 1918 by the Secondary Schools Examinations Council (SSEC).

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Secular humanism

Secular humanism is a philosophy or life stance that embraces human reason, ethics, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision making.

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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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Shock humour

Shock humour is a style of comedy intended to shock the audience.

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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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Six Dates with Barker

Six Dates with Barker is a series of six one-off, half-hour situation comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker.

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Social class in the United Kingdom

The social structure of the United Kingdom has historically been highly influenced by the concept of social class, with the concept still affecting British society today.

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Spoonerism

A spoonerism is an error in speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words in a phrase.

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Stella Richman

Stella Richman (9 November 1922 – 24 May 2002) was a British television producer.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.

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Sykes and a...

Sykes and a... is a black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC 1 from 1960 to 1965.

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T. E. Lawrence

Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer.

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Television Centre, London

Television Centre is a building complex in White City, West London that was the headquarters of BBC Television between 1960 and 2013.

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The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers is an espionage British television series created in 1961.

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The Bargee

The Bargee is a 1964 British comedy film directed by Duncan Wood, and starring Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes and Ronnie Barker.

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The Big Show (TV series)

The Big Show is an American comedy-variety-musical television series produced and broadcast by NBC for several months in 1980.

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The Cracksman

The Cracksman is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Peter Graham Scott.

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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 Frost Report

The Frost Report was a satirical television show hosted by David Frost.

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The Gathering Storm (2002 film)

The Gathering Storm is a BBC–HBO co-produced television biographical film about Winston Churchill in the years just prior to World War II.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Guinea Pig (Chetham-Strode)

The Guinea Pig is a 3 Act play by Warren Chetham-Strode.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Magnificent Evans

The Magnificent Evans is a 1984 BBC situation comedy written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker, Sharon Morgan and Myfanwy Talog.

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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark.

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The Man Outside (1967 film)

The Man Outside is a British film released in 1968.

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The Navy Lark

The Navy Lark is a radio sit-com about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge, (a play on HMS ''Troubridge'', a Royal Navy destroyer) based in HMNB Portsmouth.

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The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything is a collection of sketches (produced in 1999) broadcast in two parts on 2 and 4 January 2000 on BBC 1.

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The Picnic

The Picnic (full title The Two Ronnies Present - The Picnic), is a 1976 BBC television film starring The Two Ronnies, and written by Ronnie Barker under the pseudonyms "Dave Huggett and Larry Keith".

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The Real Inspector Hound

The Real Inspector Hound is a short, one-act play by Tom Stoppard.

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The Ronnie Barker Playhouse

The Ronnie Barker Playhouse was a series of six comedy half hours showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker.

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The Saint (TV series)

The Saint is an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the United Kingdom on ITV between 1962 and 1969.

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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 Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Two Ronnies

The Two Ronnies is a BBC television comedy sketch show created by Bill Cotton for the BBC, which aired on BBC One from April 1971 to December 1987.

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The Two Ronnies Sketchbook

The Two Ronnies Sketchbook is a collection of classic sketches from the BBC comedy series The Two Ronnies, with newly filmed introductions by the stars, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett.

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Theatre 625

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968.

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Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".

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Two Fat Ladies

Two Fat Ladies is a BBC2 television cooking programme starring Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson.

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Variety, the Children's Charity

Variety, the Children's Charity is an organization founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1927, when a group of eleven men involved in show business set up a social club which they named the "Variety Club".

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Ventriloquism

Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) changes his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered "dummy".

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is a common term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of "Theatreland" in and near the West End of London.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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Westminster Bank

Westminster Bank was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1834 until its merger into the National Westminster Bank in 1970; it continued to exist as a dormant registered non-trading company until 4 July 2017 when it was dissolved Considered one of the Big Five, it expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies.

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When We Are Married

When We Are Married is a comedy by the English dramatist, J. B. Priestley.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Wogan

Wogan was a British television talk show which was broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 until 1992, presented by Terry Wogan.

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Wonderful Things!

Wonderful Things! is a 1958 British comedy romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Frankie Vaughan, Jocelyn Lane and Wilfrid Hyde-White.

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Young Vic

The Young Vic is a theatre on the Cut, located near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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References

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

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