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  • {{Short description|British radio and television comedy scriptwriter}} | nationality = British
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  • {{short description|British television, radio, and comic strip author}} ...creenwriter)|Hazel Adair]], he co-created the soap opera ''[[w:Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]''.
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  • ...29/obituary-richard-waring-a-million/|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref> was a British television scriptwriter. [[Category:British radio writers]]
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  • ...r)|Alan Simpson]]. Together they devised and wrote 1950s and 60s [[BBC]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]]s including ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' (1954–1961), the Galton won two BAFTA awards among many others such as a British Comedy Award.
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  • {{Short description|British dramatist and radio producer}} '''Edward Taylor''', (born 1931) is a British [[w:playwright|dramatist]] and radio producer best known for the [[w:BBC|BB
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  • | distributor = [[w:British Lion Film Corporation|British Lion]] '''''A Home of Your Own''''' is a 1964 [[w:British comedy|British comedy]] [[w:film|film]], which is a brick-by-brick account of the building
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  • {{Short description|British scriptwriter and lyricist}} | nationality = British
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  • '''Eric Hugh Peter Merriman''' (6 December 1924 – 2 June 2003) was a British [[w:radio|radio]] and [[w:television writer|television writer]], who provid ...here he started writing for [[w:Scout (Scouting)|Boy Scout]] magazines and children's annuals. When he left school his first job was as a subeditor on a scout ma
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  • {{Short description|British Radio Show}}{{italic title}} ...ay into ''Stop Messing About'' alongside new sketches; ''Round the Horne'' writers [[Johnnie Mortimer]] and [[w:Brian Cooke|Brian Cooke]] are therefore credit
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  • [[Category:English television writers]] [[Category:English comedy writers]]
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  • ...bscription |title=Daphne Oxenford |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |author=Staff writers |date=2013-01-03 |access-date=2019-08-04}}</ref> was an [[England|English]] ...22 |title=Daphne Oxenford, voice of Listen With Mother, dies |author=Staff writers |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2013-01-06 |access-date=2019-08-04}}</ref>
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  • ...ring the late 1950s and early 1960s, and later, also with Hancock's former writers [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton and Alan Simpson]], the [[w:sitcom|sitcom]] ...12xdissaUlp1dqlzjj6HydtfPnQMA Graham McCann, "Duncan Wood: The maestro", ''British Comedy Guide'', 20 March 2022]. Retrieved 27 March 2022</ref>
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  • ...url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0cd2c08f15714695a3fe91b0248acba8|title=The Children's Hour: A Girdle Round the Earth|date=18 May 1932|issue=450|pages=43|via=BBC [[Category:British association football commentators]]
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  • ...o worked, together with [[Barry Cryer]] as a writer for the groundbreaking British TV programme [[The Frost Report]], where Corbett first met his later perfor [[Category:British comedy writers]]
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  • ...nce Peter Michael Frisby''' (28 November 1932 &ndash; 22 April 2020) was a British playwright, actor,<ref name="DTel1998">{{cite news|last=Osborne|first=Helen ...e, he was also a presenter on the BBC's children's series ''[[Play School (British TV series)|Play School]]'' during the 1960s.<ref>Here's A House: A Celebrat
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  • {{Short description|British film creator}} '''Frank Launder''' (28 January 1906 – 23 February 1997) was a British writer, film director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of th
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  • [[Ray Galton]] [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (17 July 1930 – 5 October 2018) and [[Alan Simpson (scriptwr ...=Marcus|first=Laurence|title=Ray Galton and Alan Simpson – Creators of the British Sitcom|url=http://www.teletronic.co.uk/galton_simpson.htm|publisher=Teletro
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  • ...Scottish]] writer/producer who has written, or co-written, many hours of [[British television]] comedy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-peo [[Category:Scottish television writers]]
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  • | honorific-suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...1970, ed. Peter Noble, p. 337</ref> (14 October 1919 – 13 May 1970) was a British broadcaster and journalist and BBC Head of Light Entertainment in the 1960s
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  • {{Short description|British actor, director and screenwriter (1923–2002)}} ....bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba4b1f175 Filmography of Alexander Doré] [[British Film Institute]] Database</ref>
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