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. ^[1]

"Rommel?" "Gunner Who?"

Spike Milligan's second volume of war autobiography, "Rommel?" "Gunner Who?": A Confrontation in the Desert, was published in 1974, with Jack Hobbs credited as an editor.

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A Book of Milliganimals

A Book of Milliganimals is a children's book by Spike Milligan, first published in 1968.

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A Canterbury Tale is a 1944 British film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price and Sgt. John Sweet; Esmond Knight provided narration and played several small roles.

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A Show Called Fred

A Show Called Fred was the successor series to The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d.

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A Swag of Aussie Poetry

A Swag of Aussie Poetry, originally Out of the Bluegums (150 Years of Australian Verse), is a mid-1980s recording project with celebrity voices reciting or singing Australian poetry.

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A. E. Matthews

Alfred Edward Matthews, OBE (22 November 1869 – 25 July 1960), known as A. E. Matthews, was an English actor who played numerous character roles on the stage and in film for eight decades, and who became known for his acting longevity.

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According to Spike Milligan

According to Spike Milligan is a series of literary pastiche novels written by Spike Milligan from 1993 to 2000.

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Across the Universe

"Across the Universe" is a song recorded by the Beatles.

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Adam Faith

Terence Nelhams-Wright (23 June 1940 – 8 March 2003), known as Adam Faith, was a British teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist.

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Adelaide Festival

The Adelaide Festival of Arts, also known as the Adelaide Festival, is an arts festival held annually in the South Australian capital of Adelaide.

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Adelaide Hall

Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American–born UK–based jazz singer and entertainer.

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Adelphi Films

Adelphi Films Limited was a British film production company.

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Adolf Hitler in popular culture

Adolf Hitler (born April 20th 1889 died April 30th 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and Chancellor of Nazi Germany from 1933 (Führer from 1934) to 1945.

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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, published in 1971, is the first volume of Spike Milligan's war memoirs.

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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (film)

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is a 1973 film adaptation of the first volume of Spike Milligan's autobiography.

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Ahmednagar

Ahmednagar is a city in Ahmednagar district in the state of Maharashtra, India, about 120 km northeast of Pune and 114 km from Aurangabad.

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Aladdin (1992 Disney film)

Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical romantic comedy fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Alan Clare

Alan Clare (born Alan Jaycock; 31 May 1921 – 29 November 1993) was a British jazz pianist.

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Alan Haven

Alan Haven (1 April 1935 – 7 January 2016), born in Prestwich, Lancashire, United Kingdom, was an English jazz organist.

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Alexandra Dane

Alexandra Dane (born c. 1940 London Evening Standard (17 November 2011). Retrieved 15 March 2012. in Bethlehem, Free State, South Africa) is an English actress who appeared in many films including Carry On Doctor, Carry On Loving, other Carry On films, The Ups and Downs of a Handyman, Le Pétomane and Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky. Her many television appearances include Not On Your Nellie, Alas Smith and Jones and Pulaski.

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Alexei Sayle

Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, author and former recording artist, and was a central figure in the alternative comedy movement in the 1980s.

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Alfred Marks

Alfred Edward Marks OBE (28 January 19211 July 1996) was a British actor and comedian.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972 film)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a 1972 British musical film based on the Lewis Carroll novel of the same name and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, directed by Australian television producer-director William Sterling.

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Andrew Marshall (screenwriter)

Andrew Marshall (b. Lowestoft 27 August 1954) is a British comedy screenwriter, most noted for the domestic sitcom 2point4 children.

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Ann Lancaster

Ann A Lancaster (5 May 1920 – 31 October 1970) was a well-known character actress who appeared in many British films, television shows and in theatre.

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Ann Rachlin

Ann Rachlin MBE (born 1933), is a pioneer of music appreciation for children in the UK, and the founder of "Fun With Music".

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Anne Lenner

Anne Lenner (1912–1997) was a popular English female vocalist, singing with the dance bands of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Anthony Clare

Anthony Ward Clare (24 December 1942 – 28 October 2007) was an Irish psychiatrist well known in the UK and Ireland as a presenter of radio and TV programmes.

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April 16

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April 1918

The following events occurred in April 1918.

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Arthur Lowe

Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor.

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Ask a silly Answer

Ask a silly Answer is a short-lived panel show on British television in 1977.

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Associated London Scripts

Associated London Scripts was a writers' agency organised as a co-operative which involved many leading comedy and television writers of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Audrey Atterbury

Audrey Selma Atterbury (19 April 1921 – 8 April 1997) was a British puppeter best known for her work on the 1950s pioneering BBC's children's series Andy Pandy.

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Australian English vocabulary

Australian English is a major variety of the English language spoken throughout Australia.

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Avenue House

Avenue House at Stephens House and Gardens is a large Victorian mansion (Grade II listed) situated on East End Road in Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet.

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Avenue House Grounds

Avenue House Grounds is a ten-acre (four hectares) Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation on East End Road in Church End, Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet.

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Avenue of Stars, London

The Avenue of Stars was a version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame in London, England.

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Émile Coué

Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (26 February 1857 – 2 July 1926) was a French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion.

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Badjelly the Witch

Badjelly the Witch is a brief handwritten, illustrated story by Spike Milligan, created for his children, then printed in 1973.

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Badjelly's Bad Christmas

Badjelly's Bad Christmas was a play created and performed by the Chickenshed Theatre Company, based on the works of Spike Milligan.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, founded in 1263,: Graduate Studies Prospectus - Last updated 17 Sep 08 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Barney (film)

Barney is a 1976 Australian film for children set during the convict era.

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Barney Colehan

Barney Colehan MBE (19 January 1914 – 21 September 1991) was an English radio and television producer, best known for producing and directing The Good Old Days throughout its 30-year transmission on BBC Television.

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Barry Cryer

Barry Charles Cryer OBE (born 23 March 1935) is an English writer, comedian and actor.

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Barry Humphries

John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author.

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Basic Education High School No. 6 Botataung

Basic Education High School (BEHS) No.

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Beachcomber (pen name)

Beachcomber was the nom de plume used by two humorous columnists, D. B. Wyndham Lewis and, chiefly, J. B. Morton, as authors of the Daily Express column "By the Way" in the period 1919–1975.

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Bedsit

A bedsit, bedsitter, or bed-sitting room is a form of accommodation common in some parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland which consists of a single room per occupant with all occupants typically sharing a bathroom.

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Belper

Belper is a town and civil parish in the local government district of Amber Valley in Derbyshire, England, located about north of Derby on the River Derwent.

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Ben Gunn (Treasure Island)

Benjamin "Ben" Gunn is a fictional character in the Treasure Island novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Bernard Farrell

Bernard Farrell (born 1941) is an Irish dramatist, whose contemporary comedies – both light and dark – have been described as "well-wrought, cleverly shaped with a keen sense of absurdity" and as "dark and dangerous comedy in which characters are poised on the knife-edge between hilarious absurdity and hysterical breakdown".

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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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Bexhill-on-Sea

Bexhill-on-Sea (often simply Bexhill) is a seaside town situated in the county of East Sussex in South East England.

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BFI 75 Most Wanted

The BFI 75 Most Wanted is a list compiled in 2010 by the British Film Institute of the most sought-after British feature films not held in the BFI National Archive, and classified as "missing, believed lost".

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BFI Flipside

BFI Flipside is a series of Dual Format Editions (DVD and Blu-ray released together) which was launched in May 2009 and is published by the British Film Institute's Video label.

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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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Bill Owen (actor)

William John Owen Rowbotham, (14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999), known professionally as Bill Owen, was an English actor and songwriter.

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Bill Travers

William Inge Lindon-Travers MBE (3 January 1922 – 29 March 1994) was a Special Forces Army officer, English actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist, known professionally as Bill Travers.

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Billy Bennett (comedian)

Billy Bennett DCM MM (1887 – 30 June 1942), born William Robertson Russell Bennett, was a British comedian who specialised in parodies of dramatic monologues and was billed as almost a gentleman.Midwinter (2004).

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Bing Crosby TV appearances listing

This is a listing of the most important television appearances by the entertainer Bing Crosby.

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Birmingham Comedy Festival

Birmingham Comedy Festival is an annual arts festival in the city of Birmingham.

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BL 9.2-inch howitzer

The Ordnance BL 9.2-inch howitzer was a heavy siege howitzer that formed the principal counter-battery equipment of British forces in France in World War I. It equipped a substantial number of siege batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery. It remained in service until about the middle of World War II.

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Black Beauty

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell.

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Bluebottle (character)

Bluebottle is a comedy character from The Goon Show, a 1950s British comedy radio show.

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Bob Todd

Brian Todd (15 December 1921 – 21 October 1992), known professionally as Bob Todd, was an English comedy actor, mostly known for appearing as a straight man in the sketch shows of Benny Hill and Spike Milligan.

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Bobby Limb

Robert "Bobby" Limb AO OBE (10 November 1924 – 11 September 1999) was an Australian-born entertainment pioneer, a musician and legend of radio, television and theatre of the 1960s and 1970s with a lasting popular appeal.

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Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band) was created by a group of British art-school students in the 1960s.

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Boris the Spider

"Boris the Spider" is a song written by The Who's bass guitarist, John Entwistle.

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Brian O'Nolan

Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature.

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Bridge on the River Wye

Bridge on the River Wye is an album by members of the British comedy group The Goon Show and other humorists.

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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 Book Awards

The British Book Awards or Nibbies are literary awards for the best UK writers and their works, administered by The Bookseller.

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British comedy

British comedy, in film, radio and television, is known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots and settings, and has produced some of the most famous and memorable comic actors and characters.

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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 humour

British humour is shaped by the relative stability of British society and carries a strong element of satire aimed at "the absurdity of everyday life".

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British in India

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Brockley

Brockley is a district and an electoral ward of south London, England, in the London Borough of Lewisham south-east of Charing Cross.

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Calling All Cars (film)

Calling All Cars is a 1954 short film directed by Maclean Rogers, starring Cardew Robinson and John Fitzgerald.

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Careful with That Axe, Eugene

"Careful with That Axe, Eugene" is a composition by the British rock band Pink Floyd.

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Carl Giles

Ronald "Carl" Giles OBE (29 September 1916 – 27 August 1995), often referred to simply as Giles, was a cartoonist best known for his work for the British newspaper the Daily Express.

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Carol Cleveland

Carol Cleveland (born 13 January 1942) is a British-American actress and comedian, most notable for her work with Monty Python.

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Casabianca (poem)

"Casabianca" is a poem by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in the New Monthly Magazine for August 1826.

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Catford

Catford is a district of south east London and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Cathy Henkel

Cathy Henkel is a South African documentary filmmaker who lives and works in Australia.

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Charles Wood (playwright)

Charles Wood (born 6 August 1932 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey) is a playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film.

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Chortle Awards

The Chortle awards were set up in 2002 by the comedy website Chortle to honour the best of established stand-up comics currently working in the UK.

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Chris Donald

Not to be confused with Kriss Donald Chris Donald (born 25 April 1960 in Newcastle, England) is the founder of, and one of the principal contributors to, the British comic magazine Viz.

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Chris Joseph (autobiographer)

Chris Joseph is a British advertising executive and sufferer of bipolar disorder and the author of his autobiography Bye-Bye Bipolar?: 63 Manicdotes.

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Chris Langham

Christopher Langham (born 14 April 1949) is an English writer, actor, and comedian, who was jailed for possession of child pornography.

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Chris Mosdell

Chris Mosdell is a British lyricist, poet, author, composer, vocalist and illustrator, based in Tokyo, Japan, and New York City, USA.

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Cilla (TV series)

Cilla was a BBC TV programme hosted by British singer Cilla Black.

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Cinema of Cyprus

Cypriot cinema was born much later than that of other countries.

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Clare Market Review

The Clare Market Review is the journal of the LSE Students' Union.

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Combined Services Entertainment

The Combined Services Entertainment (CSE) is the live entertainment arm of the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC), a registered British charity.

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Comedic genres

Comedy may be divided into multiple genres based on the source of humor, the method of delivery, and the context in which it is delivered.

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Commerce & Economics Society

The Commerce & Economics Society at UCD is Ireland’s oldest and largest business orientated university society, with over 4000 members.

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Commoners Crown

Commoners Crown is an album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span, their seventh release overall and the second album with the band's most commercially successful line-up.

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Compassion in World Farming

Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) is a campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organisation.

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Constitution Hill, London

Constitution Hill is a road in the City of Westminster in London.

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Count Jim Moriarty

Count Jim Moriarty (also called Count Jim Moriarty of the House of Roland) is a character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy The Goon Show.

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Crofton Park

Crofton Park is a mainly residential suburb and electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Cucumber Castle (film)

Cucumber Castle is a British comedy film starring The Bee Gees that aired on BBC2 on 26 December 1970.

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Culture of the United Kingdom

The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by the UK's history as a developed state, a liberal democracy and a great power; its predominantly Christian religious life; and its composition of four countries—England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland—each of which has distinct customs, cultures and symbolism.

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Curry and Chips

Curry and Chips is a short lived British sitcom broadcast in 1969 which was produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network.

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Cyprus

Cyprus (Κύπρος; Kıbrıs), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean.

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Cyril Ornadel

Cyril Ornadel (2 December 192422 June 2011) was a British conductor, songwriter and composer, chiefly in musical theatre.

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Dag (subculture)

Dag is an Australian and New Zealand slang term, also daggy (adjective) and dagging (verb, to behave in a daggy way).

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Dalek

The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who.

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Dave Cash (DJ)

David Charles Wish (18 July 1942 – 21 October 2016), known as Dave Cash, was a British-Canadian radio presenter who latterly worked for BBC Radio Kent, having had previous spells at Radio London, BBC Radio 1, Capital Radio, Radio West (he was launch programme controller at the Bristol station), Country 1035 and PrimeTime Radio.

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Dave Freeman (British writer)

Dave Freeman (22 August 1922 – 28 March 2005) born David Freeman was a British film and television writer, working chiefly in comedy.

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David Benson

David Benson (born David Hodgson on 11 January 1962) is an English character actor, writer and comedian, most famous for his one-man show titled Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams about the life and career of the late actor, for which he won the Scotsman's Fringe First award in 1996, and for his television role as Noël Coward in the BBC comedy series Goodnight Sweetheart.

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David Binder (journalist)

David Binder (born February 22, 1931) is an American journalist, author and lecturer.

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David Lodge (actor)

David William Frederick Lodge (19 August 1921 in Rochester, Kent, England – 18 October 2003 in Northwood, Middlesex, England) was an English character actor.

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David Mitchell (comedian)

David James Stuart Mitchell (born 14 July 1974) is a British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter.

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David Paquette

David Paquette (born March 25, 1950) in Bridgeport, CT is an International Jazz Pianist.

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David Renwick

David Peter Renwick (born 4 September 1951) is an English television writer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek.

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Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy

Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy is a British TV series in which comedian Dawn French interviews her favourite male comedians about how they came to be comedians.

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De La Warr Pavilion

The De La Warr Pavilion is a grade I listed building, located on the seafront at Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, on the south coast of England.

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Dead Parrot sketch

The "Dead Parrot Sketch", alternatively and originally known as the "Pet Shop Sketch" or "Parrot Sketch", is a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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Deaths in 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2002.

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Dennis Dobson

Dennis Dobson (1919 – 1978)Lewis Foreman, Susan Foreman,, Yale University Press, 2005, p. 327.

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Deptford

Deptford is a district of south-east London, England, within the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Derek Hilton

Derek Redvers Hilton (3 February 1927 to 11 July 2005) was an English musician and composer who worked for most of his professional career as musical director at Granada Television.

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Derek Roy (comedian)

Derek Roy (25 August 1922 – 15 March 1981) was an English comedian, whose public profile was at its greatest in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Diane Solomon

Diane Solomon is an American singer, songwriter and nutritionist, who was part of the group who represented Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985, in which they sang "Children, Kinder, Enfants".

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Dick Vosburgh

Richard Kennedy Vosburgh (27 August 1929 – 18 April 2007) was an American-born comedy writer and lyricist working chiefly in Britain.

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Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World is the title character of a British children's fantasy-adventure comedy film released in 1973 starring Jim Dale, and directed by Joseph McGrath.

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Direct Action Committee

The Direct Action Committee (DAC) against nuclear war was a pacifist organisation formed "to assist the conducting of non-violent direct action to obtain the total renunciation of nuclear war and its weapons by Britain and all other countries as a first step in disarmament".

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Dirk Maggs

Dirk Maggs, a freelance writer and director working across all media, is principally known for his work in radio, where he evolved radio drama into "Audio Movies," a near-visual approach combining scripts, layered sound effects, cinematic music and cutting edge technology.

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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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Don't Spare the Horses

Don't Spare the Horses was a British television comedy series which aired on the BBC during 1952.

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Donald Hewlett

Donald Hewlett (30 August 19204 June 2011) was an English actor, born in Northenden, Manchester, Lancashire, and best known for his sitcom roles as Colonel Charles Reynolds in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Lord Meldrum in You Rang, M'Lord?, both written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.

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Dot and the Kangaroo (film)

Dot and the Kangaroo is a 1977 Australian film which combines animation and live-action.

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Double entendre

A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in two ways, having a double meaning.

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Down Among the Z Men

Down Among the Z Men is a Black-and-white 1952 British comedy film starring The Goons: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine and Harry Secombe.

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Dr. Strangelove

Dr.

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Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 193527 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer.

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Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s.

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Ebony and Ivory

"Ebony and Ivory" is a 1982 number-one single by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.

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Eccles (character)

"Mad" Dan Eccles is the name of a comedy character, created and performed by Spike Milligan, from the 1950s United Kingdom radio comedy series The Goon Show.

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Ed Welch

Edward William Welch (born 22 October 1947) is an English television composer.

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Edward Tudor-Pole

Edward Felix Tudor-Pole (also known as Edward Tenpole; born 6 December 1955) is an English musician, television presenter and actor.

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Elfin Oak

The Elfin Oak is the stump of a 900-year-old oak tree in Kensington Gardens in London, carved and painted to look as though elves, gnomes and small animals are living in its bark.

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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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Epitaph

An epitaph (from Greek ἐπιτάφιος epitaphios "a funeral oration" from ἐπί epi "at, over" and τάφος taphos "tomb") is a short text honoring a deceased person.

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Eric Sykes

Eric Sykes, (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years.

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Fantastic Animation Festival

Fantastic Animation Festival is a package film of animation segments, mostly to music, released in 1977.

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February 1962

The following events occurred in February 1962.

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February 27

No description.

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Felix Mendelssohn’s Hawaiian Serenaders

Felix Mendelssohn's Hawaiian Serenaders (also Felix Mendelssohn And His Hawaiian Serenaders), was a popular Hawaiian music band started by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (19 September 19114 February 1952), is best known for making Hawaiian music popular in England and throughout Europe during the late 1930s and throughout the 1940s.

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Fellowship Party

The Fellowship Party was an environmentalist political party in England from 1955 to 2007.

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Finchley

Finchley is an area of northwest London, England, in the London Borough of Barnet.

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Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel

Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel is a situation comedy radio show starring two of the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, and written primarily by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman.

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Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel (1990 radio series)

Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel is a BBC Radio 4 1990 situation comedy radio show, adapted from a 1932 American radio show of the same name.

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Franciscus Henri

Franciscus Henricus Antheunis, professionally known as Franciscus Henri (born 7 August 1947, The Hague, The Netherlands), is an internationally known musician and children's entertainer.

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Frank Carson

Hugh Francis "Frank" Carson KSG (6 November 1926 – 22 February 2012) was a Northern Irish comedian and actor, best known on television in series such as The Comedians and Tiswas.

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Frank Dunlop (director)

Frank Dunlop (born 15 February 1927) is a British theatre director.

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Frank Thornton

Frank Thornton Ball (15 January 192116 March 2013) professionally known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor.

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Frankenstein in popular culture

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, and the famous character of Frankenstein's monster, have influenced popular culture for at least a century.

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Frankie Boyle

Francis Martin Patrick "Frankie" Boyle (born 16 August 1972) is a Scottish comedian and writer, well known for his pessimistic and often controversial sense of humour.

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Fu Manchu

Dr.

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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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Gandalf's Garden

Gandalf's Garden was a mystical community which flourished at the end of the 1960s as part of the London hippie-underground movement, and ran a shop and a magazine of the same name.

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Gaybo Laughs Back

Gaybo Laughs Back is an hour-long Irish television special and DVD released in November 2008.

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Gayle and Gillian Blakeney

Gayle and Gillian Blakeney are Australian identical twins who performed together as actresses and as a dance/pop duo in the 1990s.

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Gene Wilder

Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author.

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George Lambourn

George Lambourn (18 July 1900-1977), was a British artist, who although born in London, lived in Cornwall for most of his life.

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George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 19268 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician.

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George Roper

George Roper (15 May 1934 – 1 July 2003) was an English comedian, best known for his appearances in the long-running UK television series The Comedians.

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Ghost in the Noonday Sun

Ghost in the Noonday Sun is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Peter Medak starring Peter Sellers, Anthony Franciosa and Spike Milligan.

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Goodbye Soldier

Goodbye Soldier is Spike Milligan's sixth volume of autobiography.

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Goon Show Preservation Society

The Goon Show Preservation Society is a non-profit organisation formed to help preserve and research the history of the Goon Show.

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Gormenghast (TV serial)

Gormenghast is a four-episode television serial based on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake.

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Graham Chapman

Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was an English comedian, writer, actor, author, and one of the six members of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python.

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Graham Stark

Graham William Stark (20 January 1922 – 29 October 2013) was an English comedian, actor, writer and director.

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Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–19

This is a list of Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–2019.

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Greg Smith (film producer)

Gregory Ivor Smith (4 November 1939 – 19 February 2009) was a British film producer who had successes in the world of theatre and television.

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Gryphon (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

The Gryphon is a fictional character devised by Lewis Carroll in the popular book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards 1957

The 1957 Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards were the third annual giving of the awards which later became known as the British Academy Television Awards.

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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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Harry Fowler

Henry James "Harry" Fowler, MBE (10 December 1926 – 4 January 2012) was an English actor in film and television.

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Harry Secombe

Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh comedian, actor and singer.

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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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Hawthorne Dene (house)

Hawthorne Dene is a grade II* listed building in Strawberry Vale, East Finchley, in London.

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Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister

Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister are two characters from the 1950s United Kingdom radio comedy series The Goon Show.

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Heroes of Comedy

Heroes of Comedy is a British television series, produced by Thames Television, and broadcast on Channel 4, which devotes each episode to a legend of British comedy.

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Himself (Gilbert O'Sullivan album)

Himself is the debut album by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan, first released in the United Kingdom in August 1971 by MAM Records, following the success of the Top 10 hit "Nothing Rhymed", which features on the album.

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His Name Is Legs (Ladies and Gentlemen)

"His Name Is Legs (Ladies and Gentlemen)" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison, released in 1975 as the closing track of his album Extra Texture (Read All About It).

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History of Church End, Barnet

History of Church End describes the development of Church End, a district of Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet in London, England.

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History of North Finchley

North Finchley is an area of the London Borough of Barnet between Church End to the south and Whetstone to the north.

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History of the World, Part I

History of the World, Part I is a 1981 American anthology comedy film written, produced, and directed by Mel Brooks.

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HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs

HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs (informally "The Scrubs") is a Category B men's prison located in the Wormwood Scrubs area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, in inner West London, England.

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HMS Boxer (F121)

HMS Boxer, pennant F121, was built as a Landing Ship, Tank (LST(1)) at Harland and Wolff.

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Honor Oak

Honor Oak is an inner suburban area principally of the London Borough of Lewisham, with part in the London Borough of Southwark.

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Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is given each year for theatrical films, television episodes, or other dramatized works related to science fiction or fantasy released in the previous calendar year.

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Humphrey Carpenter

Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster.

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Humphreys (Unigate)

The British milk company Unigate produced a series of TV advertisements in the 1970s featuring characters called the Humphreys.

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Humpy Bong

Humpy Bong were an English folk rock band formed in London in 1970 by former Bee Gees drummer Colin Petersen and Irish folk rock singer Jonathan Kelly.

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I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (often abbreviated as ISIRTA) is a BBC radio comedy programme that originated from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus.

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Ian MacNaughton

Edward Ian Macnaughton (30 December 1925 – 10 December 2002) was a Scottish actor-turned-television producer and director, best known for his work with the Monty Python team.

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Ian Peacock

Ian Peacock (born 14 December 1962) is a radio presenter and writer.

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If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You

If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You is the second album by Canterbury Scene band Caravan, released in September 1970.

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Ill Met by Moonlight (film)

Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), also known as Night Ambush, is a film by the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and the last movie they made together through their production company, "The Archers".

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Index of World War II articles (S)

# S-1 Uranium Committee.

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Inia Te Wiata

Inia Morehu Tauhia Watene Iarahi Waihurihia Te Wiata (10 June 191526 June 1971) was a New Zealand Māori bass-baritone opera singer, film actor, whakairo (carver) and artist.

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Invasion Quartet

Invasion Quartet is a 1961 British World War II comedy/drama that was publicised as a parody of The Guns of Navarone.

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Irish migration to Great Britain

Irish migration to Great Britain has occurred from the earliest recorded history to the present.

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It's a Small World

It's a Small World (officially styled as "it's a small world") is a water-based dark ride located in the Fantasyland area at the various Walt Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide; these include: Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California, the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.

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Jack the Ripper in fiction

Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer who terrorized Whitechapel in 1888, features in works of fiction ranging from gothic novels published at the time of the murders to modern motion pictures, televised dramas and video games.

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Jackanory

Jackanory is a BBC children's television series which was originally broadcast between 1965 to 1996.

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Jeannette Charles

Jeannette Charles (15 October 1927–) is a British actress who often portrays Queen Elizabeth II due to her resemblance to the monarch.

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Jenny Lee-Wright

Jenny Lee-Wright (born in London, England) is a British actress and dancer who later became a Foley artist.

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Jeremy Taylor (singer)

Jeremy Taylor (born 24 November 1937 in Newbury, Berkshire) is a retired English folk singer and songwriter who has spent much of his life in South Africa, originally as a teacher of English at St. Martin's School, Rosettenville in southern Johannesburg, but since 1994 has lived in Wales and in France.

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Jill Halfpenny

Jill Halfpenny (born 15 July 1975) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Rebecca Hopkins in the British soap opera Coronation Street (1999–2000); Kate Mitchell (née Morton) in rival soap EastEnders (2002–05); Izzie Redpath in Waterloo Road (2006–07); and Diane Manning in In The Club (2014–16). She also won the second series of the television dance contest Strictly Come Dancing in 2004. Her career began in 1989 with a regular role in the BBC children's drama series Byker Grove. She has subsequently appeared in numerous TV roles, such as Peak Practice, Mount Pleasant, Wild at Heart, Lightfields, Babylon, Humans, Three Girls, and Liar. She has also enjoyed a successful theatre career, with roles ranging from pantomime to the West End, in productions such as Uncle Vanya, Calendar Girls, Abigail's Party, and musicals like Chicago. In 2011, she won the Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for her portrayal of Paulette in Legally Blonde.

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Jim Dale

Jim Dale, (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, narrator, singer, director, and composer.

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Jim Norton (Irish actor)

Jim Norton (born 4 January 1938) is an Irish stage, film and television character actor, known for his work in the theatre, most notably in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, and on television as Bishop Brennan in the sitcom Father Ted.

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Jimmy Grafton

James Douglas Grafton, MC (19 May 1916 – 2 June 1986) was a producer, writer and theatrical agent.

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Joan Greenwood

Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 28 February 1987) was an English actress.

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Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lamond Lumley, (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress, former model, author and activist.

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Joe Gaffney

Joe Gaffney is a British photographer who captured the image of important figures from the 1970s before moving on to fashion photography with French Vogue.

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John Antrobus

John Antrobus (born 2 July 1933) is an English playwright and script writer.

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John Bird (actor)

John Bird (born 22 November 1936) is an English satirist, actor and comedian, best known for his work with John Fortune.

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John Bluthal

John Bluthal (born 28 March 1929) is a British radio, stage, television and film actor and voice artist, whose work has mostly been in comedy.

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John Browell

John Logan Browell (29 June 1917 – 19 May 1997 in Watford, Hertfordshire) was a radio producer who worked primarily in BBC Radio.

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John D. Collins

John Christopher Dixon (born 2 December 1942, London), billed as John D. Collins, is an English actor and narrator, perhaps best known for appearing in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! in which he played Flt. Lt. Fairfax, a stranded British airman in occupied France during World War II.

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John Goldschmidt

John Goldschmidt (born 1943) is a film director and producer.

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John Somerville (sculptor)

John Somerville (born 1951), attended Woodhouse Grammar School and Barnet College.

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John Thomas and Lady Jane

John Thomas and Lady Jane is a novel written by D. H. Lawrence, and published in 1927.

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Johnny Byrne (writer)

John Christopher Byrne (27 November 1935—2 April 2008) was an Irish writer and script editor for the BBC.

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Johnny Remember Me

"Johnny Remember Me" is a song which became a 1961 UK Singles Chart #1 hit single for John Leyton, backed by The Outlaws.

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Johnny Speight

Johnny Speight (2 June 1920 – 5 July 1998) was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms.

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Jonathan Biggins

Jonathan Biggins (born 14 September 1960), is an Australian actor, singer, writer, director and comedian.

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Joseph McGrath (film director)

Joseph McGrath (born 1930, Glasgow) is a Scottish film and television director and screenwriter.

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Juke Box Jury

Juke Box Jury is a music panel show which originally ran on the BBC Television Service from 1 June 1959 until 27 December 1967.

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Julia Breck

Julia Breck (born 22 August 1941) was born in Newport, Isle of Wight.

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Julian Chagrin

Julian Chagrin (born 22 February 1940, London) is a British-Israeli comedy actor.

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Julian Orchard

Julian Dean Chavasse Orchard (3 March 1930, in Wheatley, Oxfordshire – 21 June 1979, in Westminster, London, England) was an English comedy actor.

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Kazuko's Karaoke Klub

Kazuko's Karaoke Klub was a Channel 4 chat show, hosted by Japanese performance artist Kazuko Hohki of the Frank Chickens in which she interviewed celebrity guests who then had to sing karaoke versions of hit songs of the time.

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Kenneth Horne

Charles Kenneth Horne, generally known as Kenneth Horne, (27 February 1907 – 14 February 1969) was an English comedian and businessman.

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Kenny Clayton

Kenny Clayton is a British music producer, arranger, conductor and jazz pianist.

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KFAC (radio station)

KFAC was a commercial classical music radio station in Los Angeles, broadcasting for most of its life on 1330 kHz AM, and subsequently in both simulcast and separate programming on 92.3 MHz FM as well.

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King Street Bridge (Melbourne)

The King Street Bridge takes King Street over the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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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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Lena (TV series)

Lena was a British television variety series produced by Stewart Morris for the BBC.

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Let's Go Crazy (film)

Let's Go Crazy is a 1951 short comedy film marking an early appearance of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers playing multiple roles.

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Leytonstone

Leytonstone is an area of East London, and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

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Lincoln College, Oxford

Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford.

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Lionel Hamilton

Lionel Hamilton was an English theatre director and actor, director of the Northampton Repertory Company in Northampton, England.

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List of acts that have appeared on the Royal Variety Performance

The following is a list of acts that have appeared on the Royal Variety Performance.

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List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

This is a list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction works as portrayed in literature, film, television, and, comics.

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List of Australian films of 1972

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List of biographers

Biographers are authors who write an account of another person's life, while autobiographers are authors who write their own biography.

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List of biographical films

This is a list of biographical films.

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List of blue plaques

This list of blue plaques is an annotated list of people or events in the United Kingdom that have been commemorated by blue plaques.

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List of book-based war films (1927–45 wars)

A list of films that are based on war books.

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List of British comedians

This is a list of comedians of British birth or famous mainly in Britain.

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List of British films of 1951

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1951 (see 1951 in film).

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List of British films of 1952

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1952 (see 1952 in film).

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List of British films of 1956

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1956 (see 1956 in film).

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List of British films of 1960

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1960 (see 1960 in film).

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List of British films of 1961

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1961 (see 1961 in film).

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List of British films of 1962

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1962 (see 1962 in film).

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List of British films of 1972

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1972 (see 1972 in film).

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List of British films of 1973

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1973 (see 1973 in film).

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List of comedians

A comedian is one who entertains through comedy, such as jokes and other forms of humour.

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List of comedy films of the 1980s

A list of comedy films released in the 1980s.

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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1951–60)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.

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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2011–present)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible – or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs – and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.

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List of Doctor Who parodies

The long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who has, over the years, been the subject of many parodies, including comedy sketches and specially made comedy programmes, from Spike Milligan's "Pakistani Dalek" to the Comic Relief episode Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death.

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List of English writers (K-Q)

List of English writers lists writers in English, born or raised in England (or who lived in England for a lengthy period), who already have Wikipedia pages.

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List of English-language poets

This is a list of English-language poets, who wrote or write much of their poetry in English.

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List of entertainers who performed in blackface

This is a list of entertainers known to have performed in blackface.

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List of Have I Got News for You episodes

This is a list of episodes from the BBC's satirical news-based panel game Have I Got News for You.

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List of honorary British knights and dames

This is an incomplete list of people who have been created honorary Knights or Dames by the British crown, as well as those who have been raised to the two comparable Orders of Chivalry (Order of Merit and Order of the Companions of Honour) and the Royal Victorian Chain, which do not carry pre-nominal styles.

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List of metafictional works

Metafiction is a form of fiction in which the text – either directly or through the characters within – is 'aware' that it is a form of fiction.

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List of military brats

Military brats are the children and teenagers of active-duty military personnel, often identifying themselves as part of a distinct subculture of military children and teenagers.

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List of old-time American radio people

Listed below are actors and personalities heard on vintage radio programs, plus writers and others associated with Radio's Golden Age.

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List of people from Hastings

This is a list of notable people who have been or are associated with Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea.

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List of people from Pune

This is a categorized list of notable people who were born or have dwelt in Pune, India.

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List of people from the London Borough of Barnet

Among those who were born in the London Borough of Barnet, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough are (alphabetical order, within category).

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List of people from the London Borough of Lewisham

Among those who were born in the London Borough of Lewisham, or have dwelt within the borders of the borough are.

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List of people who have expressed views relating to overpopulation as a problem

The people in this list have expressed concerns about human overpopulation.

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List of people with bipolar disorder

Numerous notable people have had some form of mood disorder.

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List of people with major depressive disorder

This is a list of notable people who have, or have had, major depressive disorder.

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List of PHQ cards

This list of PHQ cards are the postcards issued by the British Post Office illustration the designs of their commemorative stamps started in 1973.

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List of poets

This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.

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List of reduplicated Australian place names

These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri.

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List of Room 101 episodes

This is a list of episodes of the British comedy talk-show Room 101.

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List of Royal Variety Performances

This is a list of Royal Variety Performances, gala evenings held annually in the United Kingdom, which are attended by senior members of the British Royal Family; initially this was always the reigning monarch(s) but in more recent years, the senior members attending have alternated between HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, HM The Queen Mother, and HRH The Prince of Wales.

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List of Saturday Live (UK TV series) episodes

Below is an episode list for both the UK TV series Saturday Live and Friday Night Live, which were essentially the same production.

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List of science fiction films of the 1970s

A list of science fiction films released in the 1970s.

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List of sitcoms known for negative reception

The following is a list of situation comedy series that have been ranked among some of the worst series in television history.

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List of songs about London

This is a list of songs about London.

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List of Sooty Show episodes

This article is a list of episodes for long-running children's television series The Sooty Show.

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List of stand-up comedians from the United Kingdom

This is an inexhaustive list of stand-up comedians from the United Kingdom.

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List of television series canceled after one episode

Some television series are canceled after one episode, quickly removed from a broadcast schedule, or had production halted after their premieres.

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List of The Goon Show episodes

The following is a List of The Goon Show episodes.

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List of The Muppet Show episodes

This is a complete listing of episodes of the live-action/puppet television series The Muppet Show.

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List of Till Death Us Do Part episodes

This is an episode list for the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part by Johnny Speight, broadcast between 22 July 1965 and 3 April 1992, including Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health.

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Literary nonsense

Literary nonsense (or nonsense literature) is a broad categorization of literature that balances elements that make sense with some that do not, with the effect of subverting language conventions or logical reasoning.

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Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond (Loch Laomainn - 'Lake of the Elms'Richens, R. J. (1984) Elm, Cambridge University Press.) is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands.

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Long John Silver

John Silver or Long John Silver is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the novel Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Love's Old Sweet Song

Love's Old Sweet Song is a Victorian parlour song published in 1884 by composer James Lynam Molloy and lyricist G. Clifton Bingham.

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Lynsey de Paul

Lynsey de Paul (born Lynsey Monckton Rubin; 11 June 1948 – 1 October 2014) was an English singer-songwriter.

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Major Bloodnok

Major Denis Bloodnok is a fictional character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy The Goon Show.

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Man About the House (film)

Man About the House is a 1974 British comedy film, a spinoff of the sitcom of the same name, starring all of the main cast of the series.

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Marc Sinden

Marc Sinden (born 9 May 1954) is an English film director, actor and theatre producer.

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Margaret Nolan

Margaret A. Nolan (born 29 October 1943) is an English visual artist, actress and former glamour model.

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Mario Fabrizi

Mario Fabrizi (1924 – 5 April 1963) was an English comedian and actor of Italian descent, noted for his luxuriant moustache, active in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Marley Purt Drive

"Marley Purt Drive" is a song recorded by the Bee Gees, It was written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb and released in March 1969 on the album Odessa.

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Marty Whelan

Martin 'Marty' Whelan (born 7 June 1956) is an Irish radio and television personality currently working for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ).

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Max Geldray

Max van Gelder (12 February 1916 – 2 October 2004), professionally known as Max Geldray, was a jazz harmonica player.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 15001–16000

|- | 15001 Fuzhou || || Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, P.R. China.

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Media of Cyprus

The media of Cyprus refers to mass media outlets based on the island of Cyprus, including both the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).

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Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator.

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Michael Barrymore

Michael Ciaran Parker (born 4 May 1952), better known by his stage name Michael Barrymore, is an English comedian and television presenter of game shows and light entertainment programmes on British television in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

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Michael Bentine

Michael Bentine, CBE (born Michael James Bentin; 26 January 1922General Register Office for England and Wales - Birth Register for the March Quarter of 1922, Watford Registration District, Reference 3a 1478, listed as "Michael J. Bentin", mother's maiden name as "Dawkins". – 26 November 1996)General Register Office for England and Wales - Death Register for November 1996, Sutton Registration District, Reference C6B 296, listed as "Michael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922.

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Michael Deeley

Michael Deeley (born 6 August 1932) is a British film producer known for such motion pictures as The Italian Job, The Deer Hunter and Blade Runner.

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Michael Garrick

Michael Garrick MBE (30 May 1933 – 11 November 2011)Peter Vacher The Guardian, 15 November 2011 was an English jazz pianist and composer, and a pioneer in mixing jazz with poetry recitations and in the use of jazz in large-scale choral works.

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Michael Sellers (actor)

Michael Peter Anthony Sellers (2 April 1954 – 24 July 2006) was a British builder, car restorer, author and the son of actor Peter Sellers.

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Milligan

Milligan may refer to.

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Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike)

Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike), also known as "The Milligna Show" was a radio comedy sketch show, written by Spike Milligan, performed by John Bluthal, Vilma Hollingbery, and Milligan himself.

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Monkenhurst

Monkenhurst is a house in the Victorian Gothic style at 15 The Crescent on the north edge of New Barnet in London, England.

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Monty Norman

Monty Norman (born 4 April 1928) is a singer and film composer best known for composing the "James Bond Theme".

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Monty Python

Monty Python (also collectively known as The Pythons) were a British surreal comedy group who created their sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which first aired on the BBC in 1969.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974.

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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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Monty: His Part in My Victory

Monty: His Part in My Victory, Spike Milligan's third volume of war memoirs, co-written with Jack Hobbs, runs to only about 90 pages of text.

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Moonshadow (song)

"Moonshadow" is a song written and performed by Cat Stevens, first released in the UK in 1970 as a Single and 1971 on his album Teaser and the Firecat in the USA.

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Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall

Spike Milligan's fourth volume of war memoirs, Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall, spans the landing in Salerno, Italy, September 23, 1943, to his being invalided.

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Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes

The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) is an organisation created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families.

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Neddie Seagoon

Neddie Seagoon was a character in the 1950s British radio comedy show The Goon Show.

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Neil Forsyth

Neil Forsyth (born 1978 Dundee, Scotland) is a Scottish author, television writer and journalist.

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Neil Shand

Neil Hodgson Shand (3 March 1934 – 14 April 2018) was a British television comedy writer.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (UK TV programme)

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a British television adaptation of the novel of the same name by George Orwell, originally broadcast on BBC Television in December 1954.

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Ninfield

Ninfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.

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No One's Gonna Change Our World

No One's Gonna Change Our World is a charity album released in the UK on 12 December 1969 for the benefit of the World Wildlife Fund.

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Noel Fielding

Noel Fielding (born 21 May 1973) is an English comedian, writer, actor, artist, musician and television presenter.

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Nonsense

Nonsense is a communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning.

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Nonsense verse

Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme.

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Norman Cohen

Norman Cohen (11 June 1936 in Dublin – 26 October 1983 in Van Nuys, California) was an Irish film director and producer, best known for directing two feature films based on television comedy programmes, Till Death Us Do Part (1969) and Dad's Army (1971).

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Norman Vaughan (comedian)

Norman Edward Vaughan (10 April 1923 – 17 May 2002) was an English comedian who led a long and successful career in the television and theatre, appearing occasionally in films.

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North Irish Horse

The North Irish Horse is a yeomanry unit of the British Territorial Army raised in the northern counties of Ireland in the aftermath of the Second Boer War.

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Nothing at all

The title Nothing at all or Nothin' at all may refer to.

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Oblomov

Oblomov (Обломов) is the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859.

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Oh In Colour

Oh In Colour was a comedy television sketch programme broadcast on BBC 2 in 1970.

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On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at

"On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at" (Standard English: On Ilkley Moor without a hat) is a folk song from Yorkshire, England.

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On the Ning Nang Nong

"On the Ning Nang Nong" is a poem by the comedian Spike Milligan.

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Paki (slur)

"Paki" is a racial slur typically referring to people of Pakistani descent.

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Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction

Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction is a short play by Bernard Shaw, subtitled The Fatal Gazogene: a Brief Tragedy for Barns and Booths.

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Pat Coombs

Patricia Doreen Coombs (27 August 1926 – 25 May 2002) was an English actress.

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Pat Dixon

Patrick Kenneth Macneile Dixon (15 June 1904 – 8 October 1958), better known as Pat Dixon, was an English radio producer for BBC Radio.

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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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Penge

Penge is a district of south-east London, in the London Borough of Bromley.

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Penguin 60s

To celebrate its 60th anniversary circa 1995, Penguin Books released three boxed sets of "Penguin 60s".

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Penny Points to Paradise

Penny Points to Paradise is a 1951 comedy feature film.

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Peter Bergman (comedian)

Peter Paul Bergman (November 29, 1939 – March 9, 2012) was an American writer and comedian, best known as a member of The Firesign Theatre.

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian.

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Peter Corey

Peter Corey (born 1946) is the author of the Coping With children's book series.

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Peter Jones (journalist)

Peter Langley Jones (6 January 1930 – 10 July 2015) was a British journalist, author, editor, promoter and presenter who wrote mainly on show business matters, especially pop music, for magazines including Record Mirror and Billboard.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers, CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English film actor, comedian and singer.

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Peter Sellers on stage, radio, screen and record

The British actor and comedian Peter Sellers (1925–1980) performed in many genres of light entertainment, including film, radio and theatre.

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Pevensey

Pevensey is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.

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Pistol Packin' Mama

"Pistol Packin' Mama" is a 1943 song with the words written by Al Dexter, who adapted the melody from "Boil Them Cabbage Down."Abrams, Steven and Settlemier, Tyrone.

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Pob's Programme

Pob's Programme is a children's television programme which was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4.

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Poetry Archive

The Poetry Archive is a free, web-based library formed to hold recordings of English language poets reading their own work.

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Postman's Knock

Postman's Knock is a children's kissing game.

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Postman's Knock (film)

Postman's Knock is a 1962 black and white British comedy film directed by Robert Lynn and starring Spike Milligan, Barbara Shelley, John Wood and Warren Mitchell.

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Private Eye TV

Private Eye TV was an unsuccessful attempt to turn the satirical magazine Private Eye into a television programme.

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Private Passions

Private Passions is a weekly music discussion programme which has been running since 15 April 1995 on BBC Radio 3, presented by the composer Michael Berkeley.

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Produced by George Martin

Produced by George Martin is a 2001 various artists compilation box set of tracks produced by Sir George Martin.

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Puckane

Puckane, officially Puckaun, is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland.

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Puckoon

Puckoon is a comic novel by Spike Milligan, first published in 1963.

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Puffin Books

Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books.

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Q... (TV series)

Q... is a surreal television comedy sketch show written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand, and starring Spike Milligan with a number of supporting players, usually including Julia Breck, John Bluthal, Bob Todd, and John Wells.

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Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959.

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Ra-Ra Zoo

Ra-Ra Zoo was an English-based new circus theatre company, active (August 1984 - September 1994), a seminal group who created self devised physical theatre performance for theatres using comedy and circus skills.

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Ragdoll Productions

Ragdoll Productions is a British television production company located in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, that produces children's programmes.

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Reigate

Reigate is a town of over 20,000 inhabitants in eastern Surrey, England.

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Rentadick

Rentadick is a 1972 British comedy film, directed by Jim Clark and starring James Booth, Richard Briers, Julie Ege, Ronald Fraser and Donald Sinden.

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Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border

The Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, also known as the Irish border, runs for Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, 1999MFPP Working Paper No.

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Richard Attenborough

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, (29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014), was an English actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician.

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Richard Lester

Richard Lester (born Richard Lester Liebman; January 19, 1932) is an American film director based in Britain.

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Rik Mayall

Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English comedian, actor and writer.

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Rita Webb

Rita Webb (born Olive Rita Webb; 25 February 1904 – 30 August 1981), later known as Olive Rita Thompson, was an English character actress, mainly in comedy roles.

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Rob Burns

Rob Burns (born Robert George Henry Burns, 24 February 1953), earlier also known as Robbie Burns, is an English/New Zealand bass player, author and academic.

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Robbie Bonham

Robbie Bonham (Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish comedian who has been performing stand-up in the Ireland and internationally since 2004.

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Robert Dorning

Robert Dorning (13 May 1913 – 21 February 1989) was a musician, dance band vocalist, ballet dancer and stage, film and television actor.

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Robert Florence

Robert Florence (born 29 July 1977) is a Scottish presenter, comedian and writer most popularly known for starring in the popular BBC comedy sketch show Burnistoun, and the video game review shows Consolevania and videoGaiden.

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Robert Graves

Robert Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), also known as Robert von Ranke Graves, was an English poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist.

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Robert Stigwood

Robert Colin Stigwood (16 April 1934 – 4 January 2016) was an Australian-born British-resident music entrepreneur, film producer and impresario, best known for managing Cream and the Bee Gees, theatrical productions like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, and film productions including the extremely successful Grease and Saturday Night Fever.

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Robin Gibb

Robin Hugh Gibb (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, who gained worldwide fame as a member of the pop group the Bee Gees.

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Robin Hood in popular culture

The folkloric hero Robin Hood has appeared many times, in many different variations, in popular modern works.

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Roger Kohn

Roger Kohn is a designer and author.

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Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott OBE (born Ronald Schatt, 28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.

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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Farrago

Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Farrago is a compilation of features from Jazz at Ronnie Scott’s magazine, the house magazine of the famous London jazz venue Ronnie Scott’s Club in Soho which is still in operation after nearly fifty years.

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Room 101 (TV series)

Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities are invited to discuss their pet hates and persuade the host to consign those hates to oblivion in Room 101, a location whose name is inspired by the torture room in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which reputedly contained "the worst thing in the world".

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Rye, East Sussex

Rye is a small town in East Sussex, England, two miles from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede.

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Sadie Corré

Sadie Corré (31 May 1918 – 26 August 2009) was an English actress, tap dancer, comic performer and leading pantomime cat.

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Saluting trap

A saluting trap was a form of officer harassment practiced by conscripts in the British Army during and after World War II.

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Sardine

"Sardine" and "pilchard" are common names used to refer to various small, oily fish in the herring family Clupeidae.

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Síle Seoige

Síle Seoige (born 13 April 1979) is an Irish television presenter and Gaeilgeoir.

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Science fiction theatre

Science fiction theatre includes live dramatic works, but generally not cinema or television programmes.

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Sean Hughes (comedian)

Sean Hughes (10 November 1965 – 16 October 2017) was an English-born Irish stand-up comedian, writer and actor.

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Seven Stories (band)

Seven Stories was an Australian rock group formed in Adelaide, initially as Tall Stories, in 1986.

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Shaggy Dog Story (TV)

Shaggy Dog Story is a charity programme for Children in Need, put together by the BBC in 1999 as a sequel to the previous year's Future Generations video (featuring children's programmes), and the great success of 1997's "Perfect Day" charity single.

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Shangri-La Again

Spike Milligan's radio play Shangri-La Again is based loosely on the novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton.

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Shaun Micallef

Shaun Patrick Micallef (born 18 July 1962) is an Australian actor, comedian and writer.

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Shrapnel Barracks

The Shrapnel Barracks was a British army base providing living accommodation in Woolwich in southeast London from the mid-19th century until the 1960s.

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Sidi Barrani

Sidi Barrani (سيدى برانى) is a town in Egypt, near the Mediterranean Sea, about east of the border with Libya, and around from Tobruk, Libya.

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Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon

Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon (also known by the shorter title of Sir Nobonk and the... Dragon) is a 1982 comedy novel written by Spike Milligan, and the fourth picture book by Milligan after The Bald Twit Lion, Badjelly the Witch and Dip the Puppy.

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Six Dates with Barker

Six Dates with Barker is a series of six one-off, half-hour situation comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker.

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Six-Five Special

The Six-Five Special was a British television programme launched in February 1957 when both television and rock and roll were in their infancy in Britain.

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Sligo

Sligo (—) is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht.

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Slough

Slough is a large town in Berkshire, England, on the western fringes of the Greater London Urban Area, west of central London, north of Windsor, east of Maidenhead, south-east of High Wycombe and north-east of the county town of Reading.

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Small Faces

Small Faces were an English rock band from East London.

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Son of Fred

Son of Fred was the successor series to The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d and A Show Called Fred.

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Sophie Madeleine

Sophie Madeleine (born Sophie Ball) is an award-winning ukulele player from Brighton.

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Sound effect comedy

During the 1960s a new series of 'sound effect' comedies began with Dick Lester, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers's Running Jumping & Standing Still, continued through Eric Sykes's The Plank, Barbara Windsor's San Ferry Ann and included four films with Ronnie Barker: A Home of Your Own, Futtock's End, The Picnic, and By the Sea.

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Spike (nickname)

Spike is a nickname of the following people.

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Stars in Battledress

Stars in Battledress (SiB) was an organisation of entertainers who were members of the British Armed Forces during World War II.

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Stephen Papps

Stephen Papps is an actor from New Zealand.

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Stephen Tompkinson

Stephen Phillip Patrick Tompkinson (born 15 October 1965) is an English actor, known for his television roles as Marcus in Chancer (1990), Damien Day in Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–98), Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel (1996–98), Trevor Purvis in Grafters (1998–99), Danny Trevanion in Wild at Heart (2006–13) and Alan Banks in DCI Banks (2010–16).

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Steve Benbow

Stephen George "Steve" Benbow (29 November 1931 – 17 November 2006), was a British folk guitar player, singer and music director, who was influential in the English folk music revival of the 1960s.

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Steve Vizard

Stephen William Vizard (born 6 March 1956) is an Australian television and radio presenter, lawyer, comedian, producer, author and screenwriter.

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Strawberry Vale Estate

The Strawberry Vale Estate is a housing estate in East Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet, built in the 1980s.

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Super Gran

Super Gran is a 1980s children's television programme, about a grandmother with super powers.

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Suspect (1960 film)

Suspect is a 1960 British thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and John Boulting and starring Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen, Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence.

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Sykes and a...

Sykes and a... is a black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC 1 from 1960 to 1965.

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Tahir Shah

Tahir Shah (طاهر شاه, તાહિર શાહ; né Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد طاهر الهاشمي); born 16 November 1966) is a British author, journalist and documentary maker of Afghan-Indian descent.

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Tanganyika groundnut scheme

The Tanganyika groundnut scheme, or East Africa groundnut scheme, was a failed attempt by the British government to cultivate tracts of Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania) with peanuts.

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Teaser and the Firecat

Teaser and the Firecat is the fifth studio album by Cat Stevens, released in 1971.

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Terence Rattigan

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist.

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Terence Ryan

Terence Ryan (born 2 March 1948) is a British film director, writer, and producer.

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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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Terry Southern

Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style.

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Terry St Clair

Terry St Clair (born Terry Sharrott, 1951, Burslem, Staffordshire, England) is a British folk musician, guitarist and composer.

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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie is a 1972 Australian film starring Barry Crocker, telling the story of an Australian 'yobbo' on his travels to the United Kingdom.

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The Alberts

The Alberts were a British music/comedy troupe of the mid-1950s to mid-1960s, featuring brothers Anthony "Tony" and Douglas "Dougie" Gray, along with Bruce Lacey.

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The Beatles in film

The Beatles appeared in five motion pictures, most of which were very well received.

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The Bed Sitting Room (film)

The Bed Sitting Room is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Richard Lester, starring an ensemble cast of British comic actors, and based on the play of the same name.

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The Bedsitting Room (play)

The Bedsitting Room is a satirical play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus.

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The Big Freeze (film)

The Big Freeze is a 1993 featurette-length film written and directed by Eric Sykes.

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The Big Time (TV series)

The Big Time was a British documentary and reality television series made by the BBC, consisting of 15 original episodes which ran from 1976 to 1980.

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The Bill Hall Trio

The Bill Hall Trio was a musical comedy act originally consisting of Bill Hall (violin), Johnny Mulgrew (double bass) and Spike Milligan (guitar).

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952) by Pierre Boulle.

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The Bridge over the River Kwai

The Bridge over the River Kwai (Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai) is a novel by the French novelist Pierre Boulle, published in French in 1952 and English translation by Xan Fielding in 1954.

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The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn is a 30-minute comedy film starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Dick Emery.

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The Chap

The Chap is a British humorous men's lifestyle magazine published quarterly.

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The Cherry Picker

The Cherry Picker is 1974 British drama film directed by Peter Curran and starring Lulu, Bob Sherman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Spike Milligan, Patrick Cargill, Jack Hulbert, Fiona Curzon, Terry-Thomas and Robert Hutton.

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The Devils (film)

The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama horror film directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave.

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The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea)

The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea is an episode from series five of the 1950s BBC radio comedy, The Goon Show, first broadcast on 12 October 1954.

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The Fear of Wages

"The Fear of Wages" is an episode of The Goon Show, a British radio comedy, written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens.

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The Firesign Theatre

The Firesign Theatre (also known as The Firesigns) was an American surreal comedy group who first performed live on November 17, 1966 on the Los Angeles radio program Radio Free Oz, first on station KPFK FM, then on KRLA 1110 AM, then on KMET FM through February 1969.

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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 Great McGonagall (film)

The Great McGonagall is a 1974 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Spike Milligan in the title role, Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria and Julia Foster as Mrs McGonagall.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1978 British comedy film spoofing The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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The Idiot Weekly

The Idiot Weekly (1958–1962) was a radio programme made by the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

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The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d was the first serious attempt to translate the humour of The Goon Show to television.

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The Kipper Kids

The Kipper Kids (Martin Rochus Sebastian von Haselberg, born 20 January 1949 and Brian Routh, born 9 March 1948) are contemporary artists who live and work in New York, US, and Leicester, UK.

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The Last Goon Show of All

The Last Goon Show of All, broadcast on 5 October 1972, was a special edition of the famous BBC Radio show The Goon Show, commissioned as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the BBC.

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The Last Remake of Beau Geste

The Last Remake of Beau Geste is a 1977 American historical comedy film.

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The Late Late Show (season 50)

The 50th season of The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show, began on 2 September 2011 and concluded on 1 June 2012.

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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 British-American television film about the life of English comedian Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis's book of the same name.

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The Life of Rock with Brian Pern

Brian Pern: A Life in Rock is a British comedy spoof-documentary series about a fictional ageing rock star, Brian Pern, the former frontman of the 1970s progressive rock group Thotch.

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The Looney: An Irish Fantasy

The Looney: An Irish Fantasy is a comic novel by Spike Milligan.

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The Magic Christian (film)

The Magic Christian is a 1969 British satirical black comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski.

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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark.

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The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was is a 1956 UK Second World War film, produced by André Hakim, directed by Ronald Neame, that stars Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame and Robert Flemyng.

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The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine

The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine is a 1971 comedy-variety sketch show starring British comedian Marty Feldman.

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The Melting Pot (TV series)

The Melting Pot was an ill-fated television situation comedy on BBC2 in 1975.

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The Milligan Papers

The Milligan Papers was a BBC radio comedy show, written by John Antrobus and starring Spike Milligan.

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The Moriarty Murder Mystery

The Moriarty Murder Mystery is an episode of The Goon Show.

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The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything is a collection of sketches (produced in 1999) broadcast in two parts on 2 and 4 January 2000 on BBC 1.

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The Omar Khayyam Show

Spike Milligan made wrote and performed in three series of the radio comedy program The Idiot Weekly for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1958-1962.

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The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town

The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was a serial written by Spike Milligan and later adapted by Ronnie Barker for The Two Ronnies sketch show in 1976 on BBC One.

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The Pythons (documentary)

The Pythons is a BBC documentary about the Monty Python team which was filmed in Tunisia in 1978, during the making of Monty Python's Life of Brian.

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The Ratties

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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film is a 1959 British sketch comedy short film directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers, in collaboration with Bruce Lacey.

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The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk

The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk is a novella by the American author Paul Gallico.

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The Telegoons

The Telegoons is a comedy puppet show, adapted from the highly successful BBC radio comedy show of the 1950s, The Goon Show produced for BBC television and first shown during 1963 and 1964.

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The Temperance Seven

The Temperance Seven is a British band originally active in the 1960s, specialising in 1920s-style jazz music.

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The Three Musketeers (1973 film)

The Three Musketeers (also known as The Three Musketeers: The Queen's Diamonds) is a 1973 film based on The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père.

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The Three Musketeers in film

The Three Musketeers, the novel by author Alexandre Dumas, père, has been the subject of numerous films and cartoons.

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The Two Ronnies

The Two Ronnies is a BBC television comedy sketch show created by Bill Cotton for the BBC, which aired on BBC One from April 1971 to December 1987.

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The Two Ronnies Sketchbook

The Two Ronnies Sketchbook is a collection of classic sketches from the BBC comedy series The Two Ronnies, with newly filmed introductions by the stars, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett.

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The Unforgettable

The Unforgettable... was a British television documentary programme that aired on ITV.

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The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)

"The Wallflower" (also known as "Roll with Me, Henry" and "Dance with Me, Henry") is a 1955 popular song.

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The World of Beachcomber

The World of Beachcomber was a surreal television comedy show produced by the BBC inspired by the Beachcomber column in the Daily Express newspaper.

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Things Aren't Simple Any More

"Things Aren't Simple Any More" is the final episode of the British television sitcom One Foot in the Grave.

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Through the Keyhole

Through the Keyhole is a British comedy panel game show created by TV Producer Kevin Sim and originally presented by Sir David Frost and Loyd Grossman.

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Tiswas

Tiswas ("Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile") is a children's British television series which originally aired on Saturday mornings from 5 January 1974 to 3 April 1982 and was produced for the ITV network by ATV Network Limited.

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Tonight Live with Steve Vizard

Tonight Live with Steve Vizard was a nightly Australian comedy chat show broadcast on Seven Network in Australia.

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Tony Hancock

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

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Tony Young (director)

Tony Young (1917 - 1966) was a British film director and television producer.

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Tooth and Co.

Tooth and Co was the major brewer of beer in New South Wales, Australia.

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Town Musicians of Bremen

The "Town Musicians of Bremen" (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten) is a popular fairy tale retrieved and recorded by the Brothers Grimm.

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".

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Twice Brightly

Twice Brightly is a 1974 comic novel by Harry Secombe, fictionalising his experiences as a recently demobbed Welsh serviceman and army comic returning from the battlefields of North Africa and Italy and struggling to make a living in the British Variety Theatres after the Second World War.

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Udimore

Udimore is a village and civil parish in the Rother District of East Sussex, England.

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Unchained Melody

"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret.

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Uncle and His Detective

Uncle and his Detective (1966) is a children's story by J. P. Martin, as part of his ''Uncle'' series of books.

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University Philosophical Society

The University Philosophical Society (UPS), commonly known as The Phil, is a student paper-reading and debating society in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

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Up Sunday

Up Sunday was a British late night comedy satire TV show shown on BBC2 that ran for 55 editions over four series from January 1972 to December 1973, featuring many comedy stars of its era.

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Valentine Dyall

Valentine Dyall (7 May 1908 – 24 June 1985) was an English character actor.

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Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga (informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Walla

In American radio, film, television, and video games, walla is a sound effect imitating the murmur of a crowd in the background.

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Warsaw Concerto

The Warsaw Concerto is a short work for piano and orchestra by Richard Addinsell, written for the 1941 British film Dangerous Moonlight, which is about the Polish struggle against the 1939 invasion by the German Nazis.

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Wartime Farm

Wartime Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in eight parts in which the running of a farm during the Second World War is reenacted, first broadcast on BBC Two on 6 September 2012.

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Watch Your Stern

Watch Your Stern is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips.

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What a Whopper

What a Whopper is a 1961 British comedy film, written by Terry Nation, from a story by Jeremy Lloyd and Trevor Peacock.

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William Donaldson

Charles William Donaldson (4 January 1935 – 22 June 2005) was a British satirist, writer, playboy and, under the pseudonym of Henry Root, author of The Henry Root Letters.

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William McGonagall

William Topaz McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish weaver, poet and actor.

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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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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy family film directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.

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Wilton's Music Hall

Wilton's Music Hall is a Grade II* listed building, built as a music hall and now run as a multi-arts performance space in Graces Alley, off Cable Street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Winchelsea

Winchelsea is a small town in the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, England, located between the High Weald and the Romney Marsh, approximately south west of Rye and north east of Hastings.

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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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Windsor Davies

Windsor Davies (born 28 August 1930) is a retired British actor who acted in many films and TV shows between 1964 and 2004.

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Woe is me

Woe is me is an archaic idiom expressing sorrow or despair.

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Wolves, Witches and Giants

Wolves Witches and Giants, narrated by Spike Milligan, is a children's cartoon series of humorous adaptations of classic fairy tales, featuring a collection of villains including the wily wolf, a wicked witch and an enormous giant.

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Woodside Park

Woodside Park is a suburban residential area in London.

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World's funniest joke

The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research.

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Woy Woy, New South Wales

Woy Woy is a coastal town and a southern suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, located on the southern reaches of Brisbane Water north of Sydney.

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Yellowbeard

Yellowbeard is a 1983 British comedy film directed by Mel Damski and written by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna, and David Sherlock, with an ensemble cast featuring Chapman, Cook, Peter Boyle, Cheech & Chong, Martin Hewitt, Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Madeline Kahn, James Mason, and John Cleese, and the final cinematic appearances of Marty Feldman and Peter Bull.

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Ying Tong Song

The "Ying Tong Song" (also known by its refrain, which is variously either "Ying tong diddle I po" or "Ying tong yiddle I po" rather than the oft-quoted but apparently absent "Ying tong iddle I po") was a novelty song written by Spike Milligan and performed by The Goons, usually led by Harry Secombe.

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You Bet!

You Bet! is a British game show based around the format of the German show Wetten, dass..? developed by Frank Elstner.

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0–9 Series

0–9 Series is a 1989 series of ten compilation albums released by ABC for Kids.

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1918

This year is famous for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the flu pandemic, that killed 50-100 million people worldwide.

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1918 in British music

This is a summary of 1918 in music in the United Kingdom.

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1918 in Ireland

Events from the year 1918 in Ireland.

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1918 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1918 in the United Kingdom.

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1951 in film

The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.

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1956 in film

The following is an overview of 1956 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1956 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1956.

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1959 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1959.

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1959 in poetry

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1959 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1959 in the United Kingdom.

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1962 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1962.

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1963 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1963.

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1970s

The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies", commonly abbreviated as the "Seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979.

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1971 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1971.

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1971 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1971 in the United Kingdom.

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1972 in film

The year 1972 in film involved several significant cinematic events including the release of Francis Ford Coppola's Academy Award-winning film, The Godfather.

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1973 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1973.

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2000 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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2002 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 2002.

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2002 in film

The year 2002 in film saw the release of significant sequels take place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Little 2 and Blade II.

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2002 in Ireland

Events from the year 2002 in Ireland.

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2002 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2002.

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2002 in radio

The year 2002 in radio involved some significant events.

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2002 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 2002 in the United Kingdom.

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References

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

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