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Geoffrey Burgon

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Geoffrey Alan Burgon (15 July 194121 September 2010) was a British composer best known for his television and film scores. [1]

55 relations: A Ghost Story for Christmas, Adam lay ybounden, Andrew Marvell, Benjamin Britten, Bleak House (1985 TV serial), Brideshead Revisited (TV serial), British Academy Film Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Charles Dickens, Children of the North, Christopher Maltman, Cider with Rosie (film), Classic FM (UK), Contralto, Countertenor, Doctor Who, Emily Dickinson, Evelyn Glennie, Geoffrey Chaucer, Global (company), Gloucestershire, Guildford, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Hambledon, Hampshire, Hampshire, Ivor Novello Awards, James Bowman (countertenor), Jazz, John Clare, John Donne, John Harle, John of the Cross, Julian Lloyd Webber, Kit Wright, Longitude (TV series), Martin Chuzzlewit (TV series), Monty Python's Life of Brian, Peter Wishart (composer), Robin Hood (1991 British film), Silent Witness, Stroud, Stroud News & Journal, Terror of the Zygons, The Chronicles of Narnia (TV serial), The Dogs of War (film), The Forsyte Saga, The Forsyte Saga (2002 miniseries), The Seeds of Doom, The Times, Three Choirs Festival, ..., Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV series), Trumpet, Turtle Diary, William Blake. Expand index (5 more) »

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One between 1971 and 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

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Adam lay ybounden

"Adam lay ybounden", originally titled Adam lay i-bowndyn, is a 15th-century macaronic English text of unknown authorship.

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Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell (31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Bleak House (1985 TV serial)

Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985.

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Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)

Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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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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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Children of the North

Children of the North is a British television thriller drama series, written by John Hale, that first broadcast on BBC2 on 30 October 1991.

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Christopher Maltman

Christopher Maltman is a British operatic baritone.

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Cider with Rosie (film)

Cider with Rosie is a British television film of 1998 directed by Charles Beeson, with a screenplay by John Mortimer, starring Juliet Stevenson, based on the book of the same name by Laurie Lee.

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Classic FM (UK)

Classic FM (stylised as Classic M) is one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations.

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Contralto

A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.

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Countertenor

A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.

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Evelyn Glennie

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

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Global (company)

Global (also known as Global Media & Entertainment) is a British media company formed in 2007, which owns a large number of radio stations across the country.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Guildford

Guildford is a large town in Surrey, England, United Kingdom located southwest of central London on the A3 trunk road midway between the capital and Portsmouth.

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.

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Hambledon, Hampshire

Hambledon is a small village and civil parish in the county of Hampshire in England, situated about north of Portsmouth.

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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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Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing.

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James Bowman (countertenor)

James Thomas Bowman CBE (born 6 November 1941 in Oxford, England) is an English countertenor.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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John Clare

John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption.

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John Donne

John Donne (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.

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John Harle

John Harle (born 20 September 1956, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is an English saxophonist, composer, educator and record producer.

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John of the Cross

John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz; 1542 – 14 December 1591) was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest, who was born at Fontiveros, Old Castile.

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Julian Lloyd Webber

Julian Lloyd Webber (born 14 April 1951) is a British cellist, conductor and the principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

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Kit Wright

Kit Wright (born 17 June 1944 in Crockham Hill, Kent) is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and (jointly) the Heinemann Award.

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Longitude (TV series)

Longitude is a 2000 TV drama produced by Granada Television and the A&E Network for Channel 4, first broadcast between 2 and 3 January 2000 in the UK on Channel 4 and the US on A&E.

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Martin Chuzzlewit (TV series)

Martin Chuzzlewit is a 1994 TV serial produced by the BBC, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, with a screenplay by David Lodge and directed by Pedr James.

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Monty Python's Life of Brian

Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British religious satire comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin).

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Peter Wishart (composer)

Peter Charles Arthur Wishart (25 June 1921 – 14 August 1984) was an English composer.

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Robin Hood (1991 British film)

Robin Hood is a 1991 British adventure film directed by John Irvin, executive produced by John McTiernan and starring Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jürgen Prochnow, Jeroen Krabbé and Edward Fox.

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Silent Witness

Silent Witness is a British television crime drama series, produced by the BBC, which focuses on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

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Stroud

Stroud is a market town and civil parish in the centre of Gloucestershire, England.

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Stroud News & Journal

The Stroud News & Journal is a weekly paid-for newspaper based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

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Terror of the Zygons

Terror of the Zygons is the first serial of the 13th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 August to 20 September 1975.

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The Chronicles of Narnia (TV serial)

The Chronicles of Narnia is a BBC-produced television serial that was aired from 13 November 1988 to 23 December 1990 and is based on four books of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series.

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The Dogs of War (film)

The Dogs of War is a 1980 war film based upon the 1974 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth.

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The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize–winning English author John Galsworthy.

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The Forsyte Saga (2002 miniseries)

In 2002, the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network.

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The Seeds of Doom

The Seeds of Doom is the sixth and final serial of the 13th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 31 January to 6 March 1976.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Three Choirs Festival

Worcester cathedral Gloucester cathedral The Three Choirs Festival is a music festival held annually at the end of July, rotating among the cathedrals of the Three Counties (Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester) and originally featuring their three choirs, which remain central to the week-long programme.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel by British author John le Carré.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV series)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 seven-part drama spy mini-series made by BBC TV.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary is a 1985 British film about "people rediscovering the joys of life and love," based on a screenplay adapted by Harold Pinter from Russell Hoban's novel Turtle Diary, directed by John Irvin, and starring Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, and Michael Gambon.

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

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