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Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor. [1]

116 relations: Actor, Alan Partridge, Alfred Molina, Amateur radio, Andrée Melly, Anthony Hayward, Associated British Corporation, Associated Television, BBC, BBC Four, BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Television, Beeching cuts, Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Beryl Vertue, Bill Kerr, Birmingham, Blackpool, Blue plaque, Bosley Crowther, Bournemouth, Bradfield College, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cheam, Comedian, Compact Cassette, Compact disc, Corporation Street, Birmingham, Cranford, London, David Brent, Dennis Main Wilson, Duncan Wood, EBay, Educating Archie, English Heritage, Entertainments National Service Association, Face to Face (British TV series), Freddie Ross Hancock, Galton and Simpson, Gang Show, George Cole (actor), Hall Green, Hampshire, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Hancock and Joan, Hancock's Half Hour, Hattie Jacques, ITV (TV network), Jack Hylton, Joan Le Mesurier, ..., John Freeman (British politician), John Le Mesurier, June Whitfield, Kaleidoscope (TV series), Ken Stott, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!, Kevin McNally, Lanvin (company), Larry Stephens, Light entertainment, LP record, Martin Trenaman, Maxine Peake, Michael Sheen, Moira Lister, New South Wales, New York City, Norman Wisdom, Old Square, Birmingham, Orders Are Orders, Ostracism, Paris, Patricia Hayes, Paul Merton, Pete Doherty, Philip Oakes, Pneumonia, RAF Regiment, Ralph Reader, Reading, Berkshire, Richard Beeching, Seven Network, Sid James, Sitcom, Spike Milligan, Steptoe and Son, Suicide, Swanage, Sydney, Sylvia Syms, Teleprompter, Terry Nation, The Archers, The Blood Donor, The Bowmans, The Daily Telegraph, The Goon Show, The Libertines, The Missing Page, The New York Times, The Punch and Judy Man, The Radio Ham, The Rebel (1961 film), The Rebel (TV series), The Tony Hancock Show, The Wrong Box, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Up the Bracket, Variety Bandbox, VHS, Warwickshire, Willie Rushton, Windmill Theatre, Workers' Playtime (radio programme), World War II. Expand index (66 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Alan Partridge

Alan Gordon Partridge is a character portrayed by English actor and comedian Steve Coogan.

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Alfred Molina

Alfredo "Alfred" Molina (born 24 May 1953) is an English actor.

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Amateur radio

Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, describes the use of radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communication.

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Andrée Melly

Andrée Melly (born 15 September 1932) is an English actress.

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Anthony Hayward

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

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Associated British Corporation

The Associated British Corporation (otherwise known as ABC Television) was one of a number of commercial television companies established in the United Kingdom during the 1950s by cinema chain companies, in an attempt to safeguard their business by becoming involved with television, which was taking away their cinema audiences.

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Associated Television

Associated Television (ATV), a former British television company, was awarded the franchise by the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide the Independent Television service at weekends for the London region.

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BBC

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

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station broadcasting archive repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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Bellevue Hill, New South Wales

Bellevue Hill is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the Municipality of Woollahra.

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Beryl Vertue

Beryl Frances Vertue CBE (born 1931) is an English television producer, media executive, and former agent.

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Bill Kerr

William Henry Kerr (10 June 1922 – 28 August 2014), credited as Bill Kerr, was a South African-born entertainer, who had a successful career in Britain and Australia as an actor, comedian and vaudevillian.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort on the Lancashire coast in North West England.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Bosley Crowther

Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Bournemouth

Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town on the south coast of England to the east of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, long.

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Bradfield College

Bradfield College is a British co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils, located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire.

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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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Cheam

Cheam is a large suburban village in the London Borough of Sutton, England, at the southern boundary of Greater London where it meets Surrey.

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Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh.

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Compact Cassette

The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Corporation Street, Birmingham

Corporation Street is a main shopping street in Birmingham city centre, England.

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Cranford, London

Cranford, is a district of the town of Hounslow in the London Borough of Hounslow and partly in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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David Brent

David Brent is a character in the BBC television mockumentary The Office, portrayed by the show's co-creator, co-writer and co-director Ricky Gervais.

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Dennis Main Wilson

Dennis Main Wilson (1 May 1924 – 20 January 1997) was a British producer of radio and television programmes, mainly for the BBC.

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Duncan Wood

Duncan Wood (24 March 1925 in Bristol, England – 11 January 1997) was a British comedy producer, director and writer.

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EBay

eBay Inc. is a multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

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Educating Archie

Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show broadcast from June 1950 to February 1958 on Sunday lunchtimes featuring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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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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Face to Face (British TV series)

Face To Face is a BBC television series originally broadcast between 1959 and 1962, created and produced by Hugh Burnett, which ran for 35 episodes.

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Freddie Ross Hancock

Freda "Freddie" Ross Hancock MBE (born Freda Ross, 7 April 1930) is a British-born, New York-based entertainment industry marketing consultant and the founder of the East Coast branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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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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Gang Show

A Gang Show is a theatrical performance by members of Scouts and Guides.

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George Cole (actor)

George Edward Cole (22 April 1925 – 5 August 2015) was an English actor whose career spanned more than 70 years.

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Hall Green

Hall Green is an area in south-east Birmingham, England.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Hampstead Garden Suburb

Hampstead Garden Suburb is an elevated suburb, north of Hampstead, west of Highgate and east of Golders Green.

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Hancock and Joan

Hancock and Joan is a 2008 British biographical television film based on the affair between the comedian Tony Hancock and Joan Le Mesurier, the third wife of actor John Le Mesurier.

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Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock's Half Hour was a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

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Hattie Jacques

Hattie Jacques (born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Jack Hylton

Jack Hylton (born John Greenhalgh Hilton, 2 July 1892 – 29 January 1965) was an English pianist, composer, band leader and impresario.

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Joan Le Mesurier

Joan Dorothy Le Mesurier (formerly Malin; born 3 July 1931) is an English actress, best known as the widow and biographer of the actor John Le Mesurier.

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John Freeman (British politician)

John Horace Freeman, (19 February 1915 – 20 December 2014) was a British politician, diplomat and broadcaster.

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John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 191215 November 1983) was an English actor.

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June Whitfield

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

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Kaleidoscope (TV series)

Kaleidoscope was a British television programme, transmitted on BBC Television Service from 1946 until 1953.

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Ken Stott

Kenneth Campbell Stott (born 19 October 1954) is a Scottish stage, television and film actor who won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1995 in the play Broken Glass at Royal National Theatre.

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Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English actor, best known for his comedy roles and in later life as a raconteur and diarist.

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Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! is a 2006 BBC Four television play starring Michael Sheen as the English comic actor Kenneth Williams, based on Williams' own diaries.

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Kevin McNally

Kevin Robert McNally (born 27 April 1956) is an English actor who has worked in theatre and radio as well as in film and television.

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Lanvin (company)

Lanvin is a French multinational high fashion house, which was founded by Jeanne Lanvin in 1889.

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Larry Stephens

Lawrence Geoffrey Stephens (16 July 1923p.14926 January 1959) was a BBC radio scriptwriter, best remembered for co-writing The Goon Show with Spike Milligan.

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Light entertainment

Light entertainment is the broad range of television and radio programming.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

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Martin Trenaman

Martin Trenaman (born 1962) is an English comedy writer and actor, who has contributed to many modern comedy series.

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Maxine Peake

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

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Michael Sheen

Michael Christopher Sheen, OBE (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor.

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Moira Lister

Moira Lister de Gachassin-Lafite, Vicomtesse d’Orthez (6 August 192327 October 2007) was a South African-born, English film, stage and television actress and writer.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norman Wisdom

Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character that was often called Norman Pitkin.

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Old Square, Birmingham

Old Square is a public square and road junction in the Core area of Birmingham City Centre, England.

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Orders Are Orders

Orders Are Orders is a 1955 British comedy film directed by David Paltenghi, and featuring Peter Sellers, Sid James, Tony Hancock, Raymond Huntley, Brian Reece and Bill Fraser.

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Ostracism

Ostracism (ὀστρακισμός, ostrakismos) was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years.

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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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Patricia Hayes

Patricia Lawlor Hayes, OBE (22 December 1909 – 19 September 1998) was an English BAFTA Television Award-winning character actress.

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Paul Merton

Paul James Martin (born 9 July 1957), known professionally as Paul Merton, is an English writer, actor, comedian, radio and television presenter.

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Pete Doherty

Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist.

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Philip Oakes

Philip Barlow Oakes (31 January 1928 – 18 December 2005) was a British journalist, poet and novelist.

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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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RAF Regiment

The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regiment) is part of the Royal Air Force and functions as a specialist corps founded by Royal Warrant in 1942.

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Ralph Reader

William Henry Ralph Reader CBE (25 May 1903 – 18 May 1982), known as Ralph Reader, was a British actor, theatrical producer and songwriter, known for staging the original Gang Show, a variety entertainment presented by members of the Scouting movement, and for leading community singing at FA Cup Finals.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Richard Beeching

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways and an affiliate of the Conservative Party in Britain.

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Seven Network

The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

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Sid James

Sid James (born Solomon Joel Cohen; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976) (sometimes credited as Sidney James) was a South African-born British character and comic actor.

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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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Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Milligan, (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was a British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor.

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Steptoe and Son

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Swanage

Swanage is a coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Sylvia Syms

Sylvia May Laura Syms, OBE (born 6 January 1934) is an English actress, best known for her roles in the films Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), The Tamarind Seed (1974) and The Queen (2006).

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Teleprompter

A teleprompter is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script.

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Terry Nation

Terence Joseph Nation (8 August 19309 March 1997) was a Welsh television writer and novelist.

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The Archers

The Archers is the world's longest-running radio soap opera.

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The Blood Donor

"The Blood Donor" is an episode from the comedy series Hancock, the final BBC series featuring British comedian Tony Hancock.

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The Bowmans

"The Bowmans" is an episode of the BBC television situation comedy programme Hancock, the final BBC series featuring Tony Hancock, first broadcast on 2 June 1961.

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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 Goon Show

The Goon Show was a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme.

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The Libertines

The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar).

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The Missing Page

"The Missing Page" is an episode from the comedy series Hancock's Half Hour, starring British comedian Tony Hancock and also featuring regular co-star Sid James.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Punch and Judy Man

The Punch and Judy Man is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Jeremy Summers from a script by Philip Oakes and Tony Hancock for the Associated British Picture Corporation.

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The Radio Ham

"The Radio Ham" is an episode from the comedy series Hancock, the final BBC series featuring British comedian Tony Hancock.

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The Rebel (1961 film)

The Rebel (US title: Call Me Genius) is a 1961 satirical comedy film about the clash between bourgeois and bohemian cultures.

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The Rebel (TV series)

The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961.

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The Tony Hancock Show

The Tony Hancock Show is a black-and-white British sketch show starring Tony Hancock and was broadcast on ITV by the franchise contractor Associated-Rediffusion for two series in 1956 and 1957, either side of the first television series of Hancock's Half Hour.

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The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box (1966) is a British comedy film made by Salamander Film Productions and distributed by Columbia Pictures.

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Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines; Or, How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes is a 1965 British period comedy film featuring an international ensemble cast including Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, Terry-Thomas, James Fox, Red Skelton, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Gert Fröbe and Alberto Sordi.

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Up the Bracket

Up the Bracket is the debut album by English indie rock band The Libertines, released in October 2002.

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Variety Bandbox

Variety Bandbox was a British radio variety show transmitted by BBC Radio on the Light Programme.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Willie Rushton

William George Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye.

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Windmill Theatre

The Windmill Theatre — now The Windmill International — in Great Windmill Street, London was for many years both a variety and revue theatre.

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Workers' Playtime (radio programme)

Workers' Playtime was a British radio variety programme transmitted by the BBC between 1941 and 1964.

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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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References

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

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