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Simon McBurney

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Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE (born 25 August 1957) is an English actor, writer and director. [1]

98 relations: A Business Affair, A Disappearing Number, Absolutely Fabulous, All My Sons, Allied (film), Ancient Pistol, Barbican Centre, BBC, Being Human (1994 film), Body of Lies (film), Boogie Woogie (film), Brazil, Bright Young Things (film), Cambridge, Carnival Row, Charles James Fox, Charles McBurney (archaeologist), Charles McBurney (surgeon), Complicite, Cousin Bette (film), Critics' Circle Theatre Award, Der Tagesspiegel, Edinburgh International Festival, Eisenstein (film), Emma Thompson, England, English literature, Festival d'Avignon, Footlights, For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, Francis Chichester, French and Saunders, Friends with Money, G. H. Hardy, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Human Touch (film), Jane Eyre (2011 film), Johann Burchard, John Berger, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kafka (film), Korubo, L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Laurence Olivier Award, Lenny Henry, London, Loren McIntyre, Magic in the Moonlight, Maurice Grosse, McBurney's point, ..., Mesmer (film), Metrosexual, Midsomer Murders, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Mnemonic (play), Mr. Bean's Holiday, Onegin (film), Order of the British Empire, Paris, Performance (UK TV series), Peru, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Rev. (TV series), Robin Hood (2010 film), Royal National Theatre, Screenplay (TV series), Secret Intelligence Service, Sergei Eisenstein, Skagerrak (film), Srinivasa Ramanujan, The Bill, The Borgias (2011 TV series), The Casual Vacancy (miniseries), The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Comic Strip, The Conjuring 2, The Duchess (film), The Elephant Vanishes, The Golden Compass (film), The Guardian, The Last King of Scotland (film), The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film), The Master and Margarita, The Mercy, The Ogre (1996 film), The Reckoning (2003 film), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Theory of Everything (2014 film), The Two of Us (1986 TV series), The Vicar of Dibley, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film), Tom & Viv, University of Cambridge, Utopia (UK TV series), Variety (magazine), Vienna Festival, World War II, 2005 New Year Honours. Expand index (48 more) »

A Business Affair

A Business Affair is a 1994 romantic comedy film directed by Charlotte Brandström and starring Carole Bouquet.

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A Disappearing Number

A Disappearing Number is a 2007 play co-written and devised by the Théâtre de Complicité company and directed and conceived by English playwright Simon McBurney.

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Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a BBC sitcom created by, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders.

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All My Sons

All My Sons is a 1947 play by Arthur Miller.

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Allied (film)

Allied is a 2016 war film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Steven Knight.

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Ancient Pistol

Ancient Pistol is a swaggering soldier who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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BBC

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

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Being Human (1994 film)

Being Human is a 1994 British-Japanese comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Robin Williams, John Turturro, Bill Nighy, Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Carlyle and Theresa Russell.

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Body of Lies (film)

Body of Lies is a 2008 American spy thriller film directed and produced by Ridley Scott.

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Boogie Woogie (film)

Boogie Woogie is a 2009 comedy film set in the art world of contemporary London.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Bright Young Things (film)

Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry.

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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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Carnival Row

Carnival Row is an upcoming American drama web television series starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne that is set to premiere on Amazon Video in 2019.

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Charles James Fox

Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.

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Charles McBurney (archaeologist)

Charles Brian Montagu McBurney (18 June 1914 – 14 December 1979) was an American archaeologist who spent most of his working life in England.

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Charles McBurney (surgeon)

Charles Heber McBurney, MD (17 February 1845 in Roxbury, Massachusetts – 7 November 1913 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American surgeon, well known for describing McBurney's point in appendicitis.

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Complicite

The British theatre company Complicite was founded in 1983 by Simon McBurney, Annabel Arden, and Marcello Magni.

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Cousin Bette (film)

Cousin Bette is a 1998 British-American comedy-drama film starring Jessica Lange in the title role and is loosely based on the novel Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac.

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Critics' Circle Theatre Award

The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, originally called Drama Theatre Awards up to 1990, are British theatrical awards presented annually for the closing year's theatrical achievements.

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Der Tagesspiegel

Der Tagesspiegel (meaning The Daily Mirror; motto: "rerum cognoscere causas", or "to know the causes of things") is a German daily newspaper.

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Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual festival of performing arts in Edinburgh, Scotland, over three weeks in August.

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Eisenstein (film)

Eisenstein is a 2000 Canadian film about Sergei Eisenstein, directed by Renny Bartlett and starring Simon McBurney, Raymond Coulthard and Jacqueline McKenzie.

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Emma Thompson

Dame Emma Thompson, DBE (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English literature

This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.

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Festival d'Avignon

The Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city.

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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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For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales is a 2013 Bosnian drama film directed by Jasmila Žbanić.

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Francis Chichester

Sir Francis Charles Chichester KBE (17 September 1901 – 26 August 1972) was a pioneering aviator and solo sailor.

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French and Saunders

French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

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Friends with Money

Friends with Money is a 2006 comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener.

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G. H. Hardy

Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 is a 2010 fantasy film directed by David Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Human Touch (film)

Human Touch is a 2004 film directed by Paul Cox and starring Jacqueline McKenzie, Chris Haywood and Aaron Blabey.

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Jane Eyre (2011 film)

Jane Eyre is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender.

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Johann Burchard

Johann Burchard, also spelled Johannes Burchart or Burkhart (c.1450–1506) was an Alsatian-born priest and chronicler during the Italian Renaissance.

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John Berger

John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.

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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

was one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.

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Kafka (film)

Kafka is a 1991 French-American mystery thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh.

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Korubo

The Korubo or Korubu, also known as the Dslala, are an indigenous people of Brazil living in the lower Vale do Javari in the western Amazon Basin.

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L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq

L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq is a school of physical theatre situated in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.

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Laurence Olivier Award

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital.

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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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London

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

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Loren McIntyre

Loren McIntyre (March 24, 1917 – May 11, 2003),http://ssdmf.info/by_birthdate/19170324.html was an American photojournalist who worked extensively in South America.

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Magic in the Moonlight

Magic in the Moonlight is a 2014 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen.

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Maurice Grosse

Maurice Grosse (6 March 1919) was a British paranormal investigator. Famous for his involvement in the Enfield Poltergeist case from 1977 to 1979, he has subsequently been portrayed in The Enfield Haunting (2015) by Timothy Spall and most recently in The Conjuring 2 (2016) by Simon McBurney.

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McBurney's point

McBurney's point is the name given to the point over the right side of the abdomen that is one-third of the distance from the anterior superior iliac spine to the umbilicus (navel).

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Mesmer (film)

Mesmer is a 1994 Austrian-Canadian-British-German biographical film directed by Roger Spottiswoode from a script by Dennis Potter.

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Metrosexual

Metrosexual is a portmanteau of metropolitan and sexual, coined in 1994 describing a man (especially one living in an urban, post-industrial, capitalist culture) who is especially meticulous about his grooming and appearance, typically spending a significant amount of time and money on shopping as part of this.

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Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997.

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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is a 2015 American action spy film co-written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

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Mnemonic (play)

Mnemonic is a play created by the British theatre company Complicite.

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Mr. Bean's Holiday

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Onegin (film)

Onegin is a 1999 British-American romantic drama film based on Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, co-produced by British and American companies and shot mostly in the United Kingdom.

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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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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Performance (UK TV series)

Performance is a UK television anthology series produced by Simon Curtis for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Rev. (TV series)

Rev. is a British television sitcom produced by Big Talk Productions.

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Robin Hood (2010 film)

Robin Hood is a 2010 British-American epic war drama film based on the Robin Hood legend, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Mark Addy, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Eileen Atkins, and Max von Sydow.

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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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Screenplay (TV series)

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC Two between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993.

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Secret Intelligence Service

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the government of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence (HUMINT) in support of the UK's national security.

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Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (p; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

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Skagerrak (film)

Skagerrak is a 2003 Danish drama film directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen.

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 December 188726 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician who lived during the British Rule in India. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.

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The Bill

The Bill is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010.

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The Borgias (2011 TV series)

The Borgias is a historical-fiction drama television series created by Neil Jordan; it debuted in 2011 and was canceled in 2013.

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The Casual Vacancy (miniseries)

The Casual Vacancy is a 2015 British miniseries based on the novel of the same title by J. K. Rowling.

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The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Der kaukasische Kreidekreis) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht.

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The Comic Strip

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians who came to prominence in the 1980s.

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The Conjuring 2

The Conjuring 2 is a 2016 American supernatural horror film, directed by James Wan.

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The Duchess (film)

The Duchess is a 2008 British drama film directed by Saul Dibb.

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The Elephant Vanishes

is a collection of 17 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

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The Golden Compass (film)

The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film based on Northern Lights, the first novel in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Last King of Scotland (film)

The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical drama film based on Giles Foden's novel The Last King of Scotland (1998), adapted by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock, and directed by Kevin Macdonald.

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The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film)

The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American political thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme.

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The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita (Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime.

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The Mercy

The Mercy is a 2017 British biographical drama film, directed by James Marsh and written by Scott Z. Burns.

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The Ogre (1996 film)

The Ogre (Der Unhold) is a 1996 French-German drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring John Malkovich, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Heino Ferch, Dieter Laser and Armin Mueller-Stahl.

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The Reckoning (2003 film)

The Reckoning, also known as Morality Play (and as El misterio de Wells in Spain), is a 2003 British-Spanish murder mystery drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Tom Hardy, Gina McKee, Brian Cox and Vincent Cassel.

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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui), subtitled "A parable play", is a 1941 play by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht.

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The Theory of Everything (2014 film)

The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British biographical romantic drama film which is set at Cambridge University and details the life of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

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The Two of Us (1986 TV series)

The Two of Us is an ITV comedy series starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Janet Dibley as Ashley and Elaine, an unmarried couple living together, at a time when this was becoming increasingly common in Britain, but still considered slightly controversial in some circles.

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The Vicar of Dibley

The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom which originally ran on BBC One from 10 November 1994 to 22 January 1998 (with three sets of specials in the Winters of 1999/2000, 2004/2005 and 2006/2007).

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War espionage film directed by Tomas Alfredson.

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Tom & Viv

Tom & Viv is a 1994 period drama film directed by Brian Gilbert, based on the 1984 play by the same name by British playwright Michael Hastings about the early love life of American poet T.S. Eliot.

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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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Utopia (UK TV series)

Utopia is a British thriller drama action television series that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 15 January 2013 to 12 August 2014.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vienna Festival

The Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival) is a cultural festival in Vienna that takes place every year for five or six weeks in May and June.

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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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2005 New Year Honours

New Year Honours were granted in the United Kingdom and New Zealand at the start of 2005.

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References

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

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