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Jan Ravens

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Janet "Jan" Ravens (born 14 May 1958) is an English actress and impressionist, best known for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers. [1]

71 relations: ActionAid, Alexei Sayle's Stuff, Ann Widdecombe, Anne Robinson, Anton du Beke, Barnes, London, BBC, BBC News, BBC Radio 4, Bebington, Cadbury Caramilk, Carrott's Lib, Celebrity Mastermind, Channel 4, Charlotte Green, Cheshire, Countdown (game show), Dead Ringers (comedy), Double entendre, E4 (TV channel), Effy Stonem, Elephants to Catch Eels, Elizabeth II, Ellen MacArthur, Farrington of the F.O., Fiona Bruce, Footlights, Geordie, Gillian McKeith, Have I Got News for You, Hebburn (TV series), Hillary Clinton, Homerton College, Cambridge, Hoylake, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Impressionist (entertainment), Jasper Carrott, Just a Minute, Kirsty Wark, Lesley Garrett, List of Keeping Up Appearances characters, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Mastermind (TV series), Max Hole, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Newsnight, Nigella Lawson, No Frills (TV series), One Foot in the Grave, Patricia Routledge, ..., QI, Ronni Ancona, Ronni Ancona & Co, Royal Shakespeare Company, Sandi Toksvig, Sheila McClennon, Sketch comedy, Skins (UK TV series), Sophie Raworth, Spitting Image, Steve Brown (composer), Strictly Come Dancing, Tango (drink), The Grimleys, The Independent, The Weakest Link (UK game show), Theresa May, Universal Music Group, University of Cambridge, West Kirby Grammar School, Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK TV series). Expand index (21 more) »

ActionAid

ActionAid is an international non-governmental organization whose primary aim is to work against poverty and injustice worldwide.

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Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.

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Ann Widdecombe

Ann Noreen Widdecombe, (born 4 October 1947) is a British former politician.

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Anne Robinson

Anne Josephine Robinson (born 26 September 1944) is an English television presenter and journalist, known for her acerbic style of presenting.

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Anton du Beke

Anthony Paul Beke (born 20 July 1966), known professionally as Anton du Beke, is a British ballroom dancer, singer and television presenter, best known as a professional dancer on the BBC One celebrity dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing, since the show began in 2004.

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Barnes, London

Barnes is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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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 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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Bebington

Bebington is a small town and electoral ward within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England.

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Cadbury Caramilk

Caramilk is a candy bar made by Cadbury in Canada.

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Carrott's Lib

Carrott's Lib is a British satirical comedy series broadcast between 9 October 1982 and 30 December 1983.

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Celebrity Mastermind

Celebrity Mastermind is a celebrity version of Mastermind, a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television.

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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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Charlotte Green

Charlotte Green (born 4 May 1956) is a British radio broadcaster.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Countdown (game show)

Countdown is a British game show involving word and number puzzles.

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Dead Ringers (comedy)

Dead Ringers is a United Kingdom radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two.

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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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E4 (TV channel)

E4 is a British-Irish terrestrial digital television channel, funded by advertising.

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Effy Stonem

Elizabeth "Effy" Stonem is a fictional character in the television series Skins, played by Kaya Scodelario.

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Elephants to Catch Eels

Elephants to Catch Eels is a historical situation comedy originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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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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Ellen MacArthur

Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE (born 8 July 1976) is a retired English sailor, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

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Farrington of the F.O.

Farrington of the F.O. is a British television comedy series by Dick Sharples about the staff of the British Consulate in "one of the armpits of Latin America".

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Fiona Bruce

Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is an English television journalist, newsreader and television presenter.

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Footlights

Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, founded in 1883 and run by the students of Cambridge University.

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Geordie

Geordie is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect spoken by its inhabitants.

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Gillian McKeith

Gillian McKeith (born 28 September 1959) is a Scottish television presenter and writer.

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Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC.

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Hebburn (TV series)

Hebburn is a BBC television comedy series set in Hebburn in Tyne and Wear.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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Homerton College, Cambridge

Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Hoylake

Hoylake is a seaside town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.

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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is a BBC radio comedy panel game.

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Impressionist (entertainment)

An impressionist or a mimic is a performer whose act consists of imitating sounds, the voice and mannerisms of people or animals.

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Jasper Carrott

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

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Just a Minute

Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons.

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Kirsty Wark

Kirsteen Anne "Kirsty" Wark FRSE (born 3 February 1955) is a British journalist and television presenter, best known for fronting BBC Two's news and current affairs programme Newsnight since 1993, and its weekly arts spin-off Newsnight Review (later The Review Show) from 2002 to 2014.

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Lesley Garrett

Lesley Garrett, CBE (born 10 April 1955) is an English soprano singer, musician, broadcaster and media personality.

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List of Keeping Up Appearances characters

This page is a list of main characters for the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, which ran from 1990 to 1995.

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London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in southwest London, England, forms part of Outer London and is the only London borough on both sides of the River Thames.

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Mastermind (TV series)

Mastermind is a British game show, well known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting, and air of seriousness.

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Max Hole

Christopher Charles Maximilian (Max) Hole CBE (born 26 May 1951) is chairman and CEO of UMGI (International division of Universal Music Group) since 1 January 2013.

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Metropolitan Borough of Wirral

The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England.

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Newsnight

Newsnight is a weekday BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.

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Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English journalist, broadcaster, television personality, gourmet, and food writer.

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No Frills (TV series)

No Frills was a television sitcom broadcast on BBC1 in 1988, and consisted of 7 episodes.

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One Foot in the Grave

One Foot in the Grave is a British dark comedy sitcom written by David Renwick.

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Patricia Routledge

Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, (--> born 17 February 1929) is an English actress and singer.

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QI

QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game television quiz show created and co-produced by John Lloyd, and features permanent panelist Alan Davies.

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Ronni Ancona

Veronica Ancona (born 4 July 1968) is a Scottish actress, impressionist and author.

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Ronni Ancona & Co

Ronni Ancona & Co is a comedy sketch show that aired on BBC One and began on 25 May 2007.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Sandi Toksvig

Sandra Birgitte "Sandi" Toksvig, (born 3 May 1958) is a British-Danish comedian, writer, actor, presenter and producer on British radio and television, and political activist.

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Sheila McClennon

Sheila McClennon (born 13 May 1960) is a British radio presenter, notable for her work on BBC Radio 4.

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Sketch comedy

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

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Skins (UK TV series)

Skins is a British teen drama television series that follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of sixth form.

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Sophie Raworth

Sophie Jane Raworth (born 15 May 1968) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

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Spitting Image

Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn.

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Steve Brown (composer)

Steve Brown is a British composer, lyricist, record producer and arranger.

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Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing (informally known as Strictly) is a British television dance contest, featuring celebrity contestants, with professional dance partners competing in a ballroom and Latin dance competition.

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Tango (drink)

Tango is a soft drink originating in the United Kingdom, primarily sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Malta, first launched by Corona in 1950.

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The Grimleys

The Grimleys is a nostalgic comedy-drama television series set on a council estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Weakest Link (UK game show)

The Weakest Link is a British television quiz show, mainly broadcast on BBC Two as well as BBC One.

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Theresa May

Theresa Mary May (Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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West Kirby Grammar School

West Kirby Grammar School (abbreviated to WKGS) is a non-denominational selective state-funded grammar school for girls with academy status in West Kirby on the Wirral Peninsula, England.

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Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK TV series)

Whose Line is it Anyway? (abbreviated to Whose Line? or WLIIA) is a short-form improvisational comedy television show.

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References

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

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