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Victoria Wood

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Victoria Wood, (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter, producer and director. [1]

152 relations: Acorn Antiques, Acorn Antiques: The Musical!, An Audience with..., Angela Rippon, Anne Reid, Asda, Associated Television, Ballet Shoes (film), BBC, BBC One, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, BBC Two, Bill Paterson (actor), Birmingham Mail, Bob Monkhouse, Borneo, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance, British Academy Television Awards, British Comedy Awards, British Empire, British Film Institute, Bury, Bury Grammar School (Girls), Cameo appearance, Cancer, Case Histories (TV series), Celia Imrie, Channel 4, Chris Foote Wood, City of Salford, Comic Relief, Coronation Street, Cranford (TV series), Crossroads (UK TV series), Daily Express, Daniel Rigby, Delia Smith, Derek Griffiths, Desert Island Discs, Digital Spy, Dinnerladies (TV series), Duncan Preston, Eating disorder, Eric and Ernie, Eric Morecambe, Financial Times, Flashback (narrative), ..., Free Trade Hall, French and Saunders, Geoff Posner, Geoffrey Durham, Ghana, Gold (UK TV channel), Good Fun, Grammar school, Hansel and Gretel (opera), Happy Since I Met You, Henry Purcell, Highgate, Honorary degree, Housewife, 49, Hugh Laurie, I (newspaper), I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Imelda Staunton, In at the Death, ITV (TV channel), ITV (TV network), ITV Granada, ITV Yorkshire, Jamaica, Jason Isaacs, Joan Rivers, Joyce Grenfell, Joyce Hatto, Julie Walters, Just a Minute, Kolkata, Lancashire, Laos, Lark Rise to Candleford, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment, Little Dorrit, London, Magic (illusion), Manchester International Festival, Manchester Metropolitan University, Maxine Peake, Mayflower Theatre, Meeting for worship, Michael Ball (singer), Mines Advisory Group, Nearly a Happy Ending, Nella Last, New Faces, New Zealand, Newfoundland and Labrador, Noel Streatfeild, Nymphs and Shepherds, Observational comedy, Order of the British Empire, Pat and Margaret, Patricia Routledge, Peter Eckersley (TV producer), Prestwich, QI, Quakers, Radio Times, Reader's Digest, Richard E. Grant, Roger Moore, Sally Ann Triplett, Secular humanism, Sky UK, Stephanie Cole, Sue Wallace, Susie Blake, Talent (play), That Day We Sang, That's Life!, The Apprentice: You're Fired!, The Daily Telegraph, The Graham Norton Show, The Great British Bake Off, The Hallé, The Journal (newspaper), The League of Gentlemen, The Lowry, The Observer, The South Bank Show, The Stage, The Summer Show, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Timothy Spall, Trevor Nunn, TV's 50 Greatest Stars, University of Birmingham, University of Sunderland, Victoria Falls, Victoria Wood (1989 TV series), Victoria Wood as Seen on TV, Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings, Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast, Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas, Victoria's Empire, WGGB-TV, Wood and Walters, World War II, Zambia. Expand index (102 more) »

Acorn Antiques

Acorn Antiques is a parodic soap opera written by Victoria Wood as a regular feature in the two seasons of Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, which ran from 1985 to 1987.

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Acorn Antiques: The Musical!

Acorn Antiques: The Musical! is a musical about an antiques dealer, based on the parodic soap opera of the same name by Victoria Wood.

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An Audience with...

An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television (now part of ITV Studios), in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.

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Angela Rippon

Angela May Rippon CBE (born 12 October 1944)"Angela Rippon," Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, (2008) Gale Biography In Context is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter.

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Anne Reid

Anne Reid, MBE (born 28 May 1935) is an English stage, film and television actress, known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in the soap opera Coronation Street (1961–71); Jean in the sitcom Dinnerladies (1998–2000); and her BAFTA-nominated role as Celia Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax (2012–present).

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Asda

Asda Stores Ltd. trading as Asda, is a British supermarket retailer, headquartered in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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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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Ballet Shoes (film)

Ballet Shoes is a 2007 British television film, adapted by Heidi Thomas from Noel Streatfeild's 1936 novel Ballet Shoes.

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BBC

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

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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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Bill Paterson (actor)

Bill Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish actor and commentator, best known for playing the lead role in the BBC One paranormal, mystery drama Sea of Souls between 2004 and 2007.

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Birmingham Mail

The Birmingham Mail or the Black Country Mail in the Black Country is a tabloid newspaper based in Birmingham, England but distributed around Birmingham, The Black Country, and Solihull and parts of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.

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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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Borneo

Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

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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 Actress

This is a list of the British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress.

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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 Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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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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Bury

Bury is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irwell east of Bolton, southwest of Rochdale and northwest of Manchester.

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Bury Grammar School (Girls)

Bury Grammar School (Girls) is an independent girls' day school in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, which was founded in 1884.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Case Histories (TV series)

Case Histories is a British crime drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie novel series by Kate Atkinson.

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Celia Imrie

Celia Diana Savile Imrie (born 15 July 1952) is an English actress.

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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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Chris Foote Wood

Chris Foote Wood (born Christopher Wood, Prestbury, Cheshire, 15 December 1940) is an English politician and author.

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City of Salford

The City of Salford is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, named after its largest settlement, Salford, but extending west to include the towns of Eccles, Worsley, Swinton, Walkden and Irlam.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, and an independent sister organization of the United States-based Comic Relief Inc. It was founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.

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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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Cranford (TV series)

Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson.

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Crossroads (UK TV series)

Crossroads is a British television soap opera that ran on ITV over two periods – the original 1964 to 1988 run, followed by a short revival from 2001 to 2003.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom.

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Daniel Rigby

Daniel Rigby (born 6 December 1982) is an English actor and comedian.

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Delia Smith

Delia Ann Smith (born 18 June 1941) is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style.

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Derek Griffiths

Derek Griffiths (born 15 July 1946) is a British actor who appeared in numerous British children's television series in the 1960s to present and has more recently played parts in TV drama.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy is a British-based entertainment, TV and movies website and brand, and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.

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Dinnerladies (TV series)

dinnerladies is a British sitcom created, written and co-produced by Victoria Wood.

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Duncan Preston

Duncan Preston (born 11 August 1946) is an English actor.

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Eating disorder

An eating disorder is a mental disorder defined by abnormal eating habits that negatively affect a person's physical or mental health.

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Eric and Ernie

Eric and Ernie is a 2011 television film produced by BBC Wales, based on the early career of the British comic double-act Morecambe and Wise.

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Eric Morecambe

John Eric Bartholomew, (14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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Flashback (narrative)

A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

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Free Trade Hall

The Free Trade Hall in Peter Street, Manchester, England, was a public hall constructed in 1853–56 on St Peter's Fields, the site of the Peterloo Massacre and is now a Radisson hotel.

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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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Geoff Posner

Geoffrey Harold Posner (born 7 July 1949) is a British television producer and director.

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Geoffrey Durham

Geoffrey Durham (born 22 July 1949) is a British comedy magician and actor who was known for many years as "the Great Soprendo".

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Gold (UK TV channel)

Gold (stylised as GOLD) is a British classic comedy channel from the UKTV network, broadcasting to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Good Fun

Good Fun is a play by Victoria Wood, first performed in 1980.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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Hansel and Gretel (opera)

Hansel and Gretel (German) is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a (fairy-tale opera).

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Happy Since I Met You

Happy Since I Met You is a television play written by Victoria Wood, and broadcast on ITV on 9 August 1981.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (or; c. 10 September 1659According to Holman and Thompson (Grove Music Online, see References) there is uncertainty regarding the year and day of birth. No record of baptism has been found. The year 1659 is based on Purcell's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey and the frontispiece of his Sonnata's of III. Parts (London, 1683). The day 10 September is based on vague inscriptions in the manuscript GB-Cfm 88. It may also be relevant that he was appointed to his first salaried post on 10 September 1677, which would have been his eighteenth birthday. – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.

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Highgate

Highgate is a suburban area of north London at the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath, north north-west of Charing Cross.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Housewife, 49

Housewife, 49 is a 2006 television film based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last.

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Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie, (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, musician, comedian, and author.

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I (newspaper)

The i is a British newspaper owned and published by Johnston Press, which also publishes the Yorkshire Post and The Scotsman.

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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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Imelda Staunton

Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, (born 9 January 1956) is an English stage and screen actress.

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In at the Death

In At The Death was a sketch revue performed at The Bush Theatre, London in 1978, most notable for being the first time that future colleagues Victoria Wood and Julie Walters would work together.

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ITV (TV channel)

ITV is a commercial television channel in the United Kingdom.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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ITV Granada

ITV Granada (formerly Granada Television; informally Granada) is the Channel 3 regional service for North West England and the Isle of Man.

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ITV Yorkshire

ITV Yorkshire is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Jason Isaacs

Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor and voice actor.

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Joan Rivers

Joan Alexandra Molinsky (June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014), known professionally as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host.

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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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Joyce Hatto

Joyce Hilda Hatto (5 September 1928 – 29 June 2006) was an English concert pianist and piano teacher.

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Julie Walters

Dame Julia Mary Walters, (born 22 February 1950) is an English actress and writer.

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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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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Laos

Laos (ລາວ,, Lāo; Laos), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao; République démocratique populaire lao), commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: ເມືອງລາວ, Muang Lao), is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southwest and Thailand to the west and southwest.

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Lark Rise to Candleford

Lark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century.

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre.

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Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857.

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London

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

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Magic (illusion)

Magic, along with its subgenres of, and sometimes referred to as illusion, stage magic or street magic is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by staged tricks or illusions of seemingly impossible feats using natural means.

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Manchester International Festival

The Manchester International Festival is a biennial international arts festival, with a specific focus on original new work, held in the English city of Manchester.

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Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester Metropolitan University (often referred to as Manchester Met, Man Met, or MMU) is a new, public university located in Manchester, England.

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Maxine Peake

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

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Mayflower Theatre

Mayflower Theatre (formerly the Gaumont Theatre and originally The Empire Theatre) is a Grade II listed theatre in the city centre of Southampton, England, with a capacity of 2,300.

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Meeting for worship

A meeting for worship is a practice of the Religious Society of Friends (or "Quakers") in many ways comparable to a church service.

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Michael Ball (singer)

Michael Ashley Ball, OBE (born 27 June 1962) is an English actor, singer and broadcaster, who is known for his work in musical theatre.

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Mines Advisory Group

The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is a non-governmental organization that assists people affected by landmines, unexploded ordnance, and small arms and light weapons.

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Nearly a Happy Ending

Nearly A Happy Ending is a television play written by Victoria Wood, which ITV broadcast on 1 June 1980.

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Nella Last

Nella Last (née Nellie Lord; 4 October 1889 – 22 June 1968) was a housewife who lived in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England.

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New Faces

New Faces was a British television talent show that aired in the 1970s and 1980s.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Akamassiss; Newfoundland Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar) is the most easterly province of Canada.

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Noel Streatfeild

Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE (24 December 1895 –11 September 1986), was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series.

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Nymphs and Shepherds

Nymphs and Shepherds is a song by the English composer Henry Purcell, from the play The Libertine by Thomas Shadwell.

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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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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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Pat and Margaret

Pat and Margaret is a British television film written by comedian Victoria Wood.

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Patricia Routledge

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

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Peter Eckersley (TV producer)

Peter Eckersley (7 April 1936 – 26 August 1981) was a British television producer.

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Prestwich

Prestwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, north of Manchester city centre, north of Salford and south of Bury.

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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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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Radio Times

Radio Times is a British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine.

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Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year.

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Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; 5 May 1957) is a Swazi-English actor, screenwriter, director and perfumier.

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Roger Moore

Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor.

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Sally Ann Triplett

Sally Ann Triplett (born 15 April 1962, London, England) is a British singer and actress.

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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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Sky UK

Sky UK (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited, BSkyB and Sky) is a telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom.

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Stephanie Cole

Patricia Stephanie Cole, OBE (born 5 October 1941) is an English stage, television, radio and film actress, known for high-profile television roles in shows such as Tenko (1981–85), Open All Hours (1982–85), A Bit of a Do (1989), Waiting for God (1990–94), Keeping Mum (1997–98), Doc Martin (2004–09), Still Open All Hours (2013–present) Man Down (2014-present) and as Sylvia Goodwin in ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2011–13).

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Sue Wallace

Sue Wallace is a British character actress.

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Susie Blake

Susie Blake (born 19 April 1950) is an English television, radio and stage actress.

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Talent (play)

Talent is a play written by Victoria Wood, first performed in 1978.

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That Day We Sang

That Day We Sang is a British musical written by Victoria Wood.

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That's Life!

That's Life! was a magazine-style television series on BBC1 between 26 May 1973 and 19 June 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen throughout the entire run, with various changes of co-presenters.

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The Apprentice: You're Fired!

The Apprentice: You're Fired! is a comedy companion discussion programme, created by Mark Burnett in 2006, to run alongside the currently running series of The Apprentice.

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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 Graham Norton Show

The Graham Norton Show (or simply Graham Norton) is a British comedy chat show presented by Graham Norton.

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The Great British Bake Off

The Great British Bake Off (often referred to as Bake Off or GBBO) is a British television baking competition produced by Love Productions, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, attempting to impress a group of judges with their baking skills, with a contestant being eliminated in each round, with the winner being selected from the remaining contestants that make it to the finals.

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The Hallé

The Hallé is an English symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England.

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The Journal (newspaper)

The Journal is a daily newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen is a British comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999.

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The Lowry

The Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex situated on Pier 8 at Salford Quays, in Salford, Greater Manchester, England.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show.

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The Stage

The Stage is a British weekly newspaper and website covering the entertainment industry, and particularly theatre.

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The Summer Show

The Summer Show is a British comedy sketch show made in 1975.

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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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Timothy Spall

Timothy Leonard Spall, OBE (born 27 February 1957) is an English character actor and occasional presenter.

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Trevor Nunn

Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director.

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TV's 50 Greatest Stars

TV's 50 Greatest Stars was a one-off British television awards show which invited the viewing public to vote for their favourite on-screen stars from a list compiled by the broadcaster ITV.

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University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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University of Sunderland

The University of Sunderland is a university located in Sunderland in the North East of England.

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Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls (Tokaleya Tonga: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "The Smoke that Thunders") is a waterfall in southern Africa on the Zambezi River at the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Victoria Wood (1989 TV series)

Victoria Wood was a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood in 1989, who took a break from sketches, two years after her very successful and award winning series Victoria Wood As Seen On TV.

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Victoria Wood as Seen on TV

Victoria Wood as Seen on TV is a British comedy sketch series starring comedian Victoria Wood, with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge.

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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings was a one-off Christmas comedy sketch-show special, written by and starring comedian Victoria Wood.

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Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast is a 50-minute television comedy special, written by and starring comedian Victoria Wood.

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Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas

Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas is a comedy sketch show written by and starring comedian Victoria Wood, broadcast on Christmas Eve 2009.

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Victoria's Empire

Victoria's Empire is a three-part British travel series that was first broadcast on BBC One in 2007.

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WGGB-TV

WGGB-TV is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, serving the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts.

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Wood and Walters

Wood and Walters was a British television comedy sketch show starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood for Granada Television and written entirely by Wood.

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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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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa, (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa) neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.

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References

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

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