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  • '''Neil Hodgson Shand''' (3 March 1934 – 14 April 2018) was a British television comedy writer.<ref name="BBC15042018">{{cite news|url=https://ww ...f-british-comedy-1-8410149|title=Neil Shand: My life with the old guard of British comedy|work=The Yorkshire Post|date=26 February 2017|accessdate=18 April 20
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  • ...sion|BBC Television]], ''Brush Off the Dust'', in which he visited several British museums, commenting on their collections, and in 1975 presented a series, ' [[Category:Scottish television journalists]]
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  • ...was an [[English people|English]] [[news presenter|newsreader]] for the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]. ...eb.archive.org/web/20150626174953/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9fd84c79 British Film Institute, Corbet Woodall]</ref> On television, Corbet Woodall appe
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  • ...siccomedy.co.uk/the-waterloo-bridge-handicap-1978|title=The Race Is On.. – British Classic Comedy|date=16 January 2016|publisher=britishclassiccomedy.co.uk|ac Kaye appeared in three episodes of Croft's British department store sitcom ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' and was later offered
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...became involved in theatre at [[w:University of Oxford|Oxford]] and joined British television in 1956 shortly after the founding of independent television, pr
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | nationality = British
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  • .../web.archive.org/web/20071007225403/http://www.pr-inside.com/controversial-british-comedian-bernard-manning-r157083.htm |archive-date=7 October 2007 |df=dmy } Manning gained a high profile on British television during the 1970s, appearing on shows such as ''[[The Comedians (
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  • ...ans Revival" style jazz were very popular in Britain. In January 1963, the British music magazine ''[[NME]]'' reported that the biggest trad jazz event to be ...of the [[National Secular Society]] and a Distinguished Supporter of the [[British Humanist Association]]. Melly was President of the BHA 1972–4, and was al
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  • ...as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. ...in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]] of the [[British Army]]<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/8
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  • {{Short description|British actor}} {{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
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  • | producer = {{ubl|Roger Randall-Cutler|[[Lynda Myles (British producer)|Lynda Myles]]}} ....co.uk/releases/commitments-1970-3 | title=''The Commitments'' (15)|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=10 July 1991| access-date=7 January 201
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  • ...years of [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national service]] in the [[British Army|army]], where he failed officer selection.<ref name=Sherrin/> He later ...''Private Eye''{{'}}s Lunchtime O'Booze), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies (where the soldiers holding back the politicised rabble bear a str
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  • ...tt]]. The series references famous people of the time and criticises the [[British Army]]'s leadership during the campaign, culminating in the ending of its [ ...st of the [[100 Greatest British Television Programmes]] compiled by the [[British Film Institute]].<ref name="bfi"/> However, some historians and politicians
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  • {{short description|British theatre director}} | honorific_suffix = [[W:Order of the British Empire|CBE]]
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  • ...'' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}} (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was a British television host, [[journalist]], comedian and writer. ...|stage play]] and [[Frost/Nixon (film)|film]]. Frost interviewed all eight British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2016 and all seven American presid
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...ts National Service Association]] (ENSA), which provided entertainment for British forces and factory workers during the war.{{sfn|Sikov|2002|p=22}} Sellers a
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  • ...le="The Happiest Days of My Life": Mutual |work=Charlie Chaplin |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=28 April 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=htt ...or the American draft, but he was not summoned by either country.{{efn|The British embassy made a statement saying: "[Chaplin] is of as much use to Great Brit
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