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72 relations: Archie Pitt, Arthur Lowe, Australia, Ballad, Basil Dean, BBC, BBC Radio 4, Betty Williams (Coronation Street), Big band, Bob Monkhouse, Boots! Boots!, Bristol, Cardiac asthma, Carol Reed, Cheadle, Greater Manchester, Coronation Street, Coventry, Cyprus, Derbyshire, Desert Island Discs, Didsbury, Ealing, Ealing comedies, Ealing Studios, Eamonn Andrews, East End of London, Elizabeth II, Elsie Tanner, Entertainments National Service Association, Facing the Music (1941 film), George Formby, Gracie Fields, Henry Hall (bandleader), Hilda Ogden, Hysterectomy, Ian McKellen, James Bolam, James Roache, Jean Alexander, Julie Andrews, Ken Barlow, Lancashire hotpot, Leicester, Let's Be Famous, Love on the Dole, Malta, Manchester, Middle East, Miscarriage, Order of the British Empire, ..., Pardon the Expression, Parkinson (TV series), Pat Phoenix, Penny Paradise, Pneumonia, Rooftop Rendezvous, Rovers Return Inn, Soap opera, South Africa, Sunday Mirror, The British Soap Awards, This Is Your Life (UK TV series), Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, Uterine fibroid, Vegetarianism, West End theatre, William Roache, Winifred Atwell, World War I, World War II, 2000 New Year Honours. Expand index (22 more) »
Archie Pitt
Archie Pitt (1882 – November 12, 1940) was a British music hall performer, showman and talent agent.
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Arthur Lowe
Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor.
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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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Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
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Basil Dean
Basil Herbert Dean CBE (27 September 1888 – 22 April 1978) was an English actor, writer, film producer/film director and theatrical producer/director.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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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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Betty Williams (Coronation Street)
Betty Williams (also Preston and Turpin) is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, portrayed by former music hall star Betty Driver.
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Big band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
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Bob Monkhouse
Robert Alan "Bob" Monkhouse, OBE (1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003) was an English entertainer and comedian.
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Boots! Boots!
Boots! Boots! is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Bert Tracy and starring George Formby, Beryl Formby and Arthur Kingsley.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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Cardiac asthma
Cardiac asthma is a medical diagnosis of wheezing, coughing or shortness of breath due to congestive heart failure.
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Carol Reed
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949).
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Cheadle, Greater Manchester
Cheadle is a suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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Coronation Street
Coronation Street (also informally referred to as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
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Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
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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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Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.
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Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Didsbury
Didsbury is a suburban area of Manchester, England, on the north bank of the River Mersey, south of Manchester city centre.
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Ealing
Ealing is a district of west London, England, located west of Charing Cross.
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Ealing comedies
The Ealing comedies is an informal name for a series of comedy films produced by the London-based Ealing Studios during the period 1947 to 1957.
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Ealing Studios
Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London.
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Eamonn Andrews
Eamonn Andrews, CBE (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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East End of London
The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames.
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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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Elsie Tanner
Elsie Tanner (also Grimshaw, Howard and Gregory) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, played by Pat Phoenix from the series inception in 1960 to 1973 and from 1976 until 1984.
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Entertainments National Service Association
The Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) was an organisation set up in 1939 by Basil Dean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War II.
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Facing the Music (1941 film)
Facing the Music is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Bunny Doyle, Betty Driver, Chili Bouchier and H.F. Maltby.
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George Formby
George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth; 26 May 1904 – 6 March 1961), was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Gracie Fields
Dame Gracie Fields, (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 189827 September 1979) was an English actress, singer and comedian and star of both cinema and music hall.
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Henry Hall (bandleader)
Henry Robert Hall, CBE (2 May 1898 – 28 October 1989) was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC Radio during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, through to the 1960s.
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Hilda Ogden
Hilda Alice Ogden (also Crabtree) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, one of the best-known of all the regular characters in the serial, whose name became synonymous with a certain type of working-class woman.
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Hysterectomy
Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus.
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Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.
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James Bolam
James Christopher Bolam, (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Dr Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the CBeebies programme Grandpa in My Pocket.
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James Roache
William James Roache (born 29 December 1985) is an English actor who is perhaps best known for his roles in connection with his father William Roache.
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Jean Alexander
Jean Mavis Hodgkinson (11 October 1926 – 14 October 2016), known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was a British television actress.
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, (born 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author.
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Ken Barlow
Kenneth Barlow is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by William Roache.
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Lancashire hotpot
Lancashire hotpot is a stew originating from Lancashire in the North West of England.
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Leicester
Leicester ("Lester") is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire.
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Let's Be Famous
Let's Be Famous is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jimmy O'Dea, Betty Driver and Sonnie Hale.
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Love on the Dole
Love on the Dole is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working class poverty in 1930s Northern England.
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Malta
Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
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Middle East
The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).
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Miscarriage
Miscarriage, also known as spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently.
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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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Pardon the Expression
Pardon The Expression! is an ITV sitcom made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Wednesday 2 June 1965 to Monday 27 June 1966.
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Parkinson (TV series)
Parkinson is a British television chat show that was presented by Michael Parkinson.
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Pat Phoenix
Patricia Frederica Phoenix (born Patricia Frederica Manfield; 26 November 1923 – 17 September 1986) was an English actress who became one of the first sex symbols of British television through her role as Elsie Tanner, an original cast member of Coronation Street.
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Penny Paradise
Penny Paradise is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Carol Reed and starring Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver and Jimmy O'Dea.
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Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.
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Rooftop Rendezvous
Rooftop Rendezvous is an Australian television series which aired on ABC during 1959.
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Rovers Return Inn
The Rovers Return Inn is a fictional pub in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street.
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Soap opera
A soap opera or soaper is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on television, radio and in novels, featuring the lives of many characters and focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Sunday Mirror
The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday sister paper of the Daily Mirror.
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The British Soap Awards
The British Soap Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom which honours the best of British soap operas.
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This Is Your Life (UK TV series)
This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same title.
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Union of South Africa
The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika, Unie van Suid-Afrika) is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Uterine fibroid
Uterine fibroids, also known as uterine leiomyomas or fibroids, are benign smooth muscle tumors of the uterus.
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Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter.
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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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William Roache
William Patrick Roache MBE (born 25 April 1932) is an English actor.
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Winifred Atwell
Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914There is some uncertainty over her date and year of birth. Many sources suggest 27 February 1914, but there is a strong suggestion that her birthday was 27 April. Most sources give her year of birth as 1914, but her gravestone states that she died at the age of 73, suggesting that she was born in 1910. – 28 February 1983) was a Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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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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2000 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 2000 for the United Kingdom and New Zealand were announced on 31 December 1999, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2000.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Driver
