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  • {{Short description|British radio presenter and voiceover artist}} '''Tim Gudgin''' (25 November 1929 – 8 November 2017) was a British radio presenter and voiceover artist. He was best known for announcing the
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  • ...– October 17, 1968) was a Canadian talent scout, impresario and radio and television broadcaster, mainly working in Britain. .... He met radio producer [[Eric Maschwitz]], and they developed a tour of British cities to find new talent. His touring stage shows attracted thousands of
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  • ...e transmitted from October 1965 to January 1977. Thompson rarely worked on television after his voice became well-known, but occasionally appeared in programmes [[Category:English male television actors]]
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  • | birth_place = [[Vancouver|Vancouver]], [[British Columbia|British Columbia]], Canada ...r]] and [[comedian|comedian]], who is best known for his appearances in UK television and radio shows.
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  • '''Charles Chalmers Maxwell''' (1 September 1910 – 4 August 1998) was a British radio producer who produced shows for the BBC such as ''[[Take It From Here ...IBC set up [[Radio International Fécamp]] and Maxwell worked as one of the presenters until the station went off the air in January 1940.{{sfnp|Wallis|2008|pages
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  • | nationality = British ...singer, entertainer and broadcaster. Initially a popular singer in the [[British dance band|dance band]] era and a comic actor on the show ''[[Much-Binding-
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of the British Empire|CBE]] ...g parts: over the years he played himself or presenter characters in film, television and radio productions. Jacobs finally stepped down as a [[BBC Radio 2|BBC R
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  • '''Jill Allgood''' (15 November 1910 - 1995) was a British producer, director, script writer, author and broadcaster who worked for th ...by [[w:Gerry Anderson|Gerry Anderson]] for [[w:Granada television|Granada Television]].<ref>
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''Have I Got News for You'' presenters}} ...ption in September 1990 until October 2002, the programme was presented by British comedian [[Angus Deayton]], before he was dismissed after two episodes of t
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  • ...;– 26 June 1997) was an English [[comedian|comedian]], [[radio|radio]] and television presenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to th ...0s from his [[BBC]] radio show ''Stand Easy''. This show was adapted for [[television]] as ''The Charlie Chester Show'' in 1949 and became a standup and sketch s
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  • {{Short description|British radio, television and newsreel announcer}} | occupation = Radio, television and newsreel presenter
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  • {{Short description|English television presenter (1933–2020)}} ...and]]'', ''[[Nationwide (TV programme)|Nationwide]]'', ''[[Breakfast Time (British TV programme)|Breakfast Time]]''
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  • ...[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]]. It was in Palestine while serving in the British Army during the Mandate that he was shot by a sniper of the [[Lehi (militan ...eller in [[List of Jackanory episodes|ten episodes]] of the BBC children's television show ''[[Jackanory|Jackanory]]'', reading amongst others, stories of [[Worz
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  • {{Short description|British actress and singer (1898–1983)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
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  • ==Film, television and other media== ...e also made extensive use of innuendo. Mild sexual innuendo is a staple of British [[w:pantomime|pantomime]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/12/2
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  • | occupation = Television presenters, <br />comedians, singers ...he 1990s, they regularly appeared as The Krankies in episodes of the [[BBC Television|BBC]] comedy series ''[[French and Saunders]]''. Wee Jimmy Krankie often us
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  • ...y 1946), also known as '''Ivor Biggun''', is a British musician and former television journalist. He is known for his appearances on the [[BBC TV]] programme ''[ ...hen Ivor is pronounced [[Rhoticity in English|non-rhotically]] (as in most British accents) as {{IPAc-en|'|aɪ|v|ə}}, the full name is a [[homophone|homophon
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  • {{Use British English|date=September 2015}} .../www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fcd2832 |title=Molly Weir |website=[[British Film Institute]] |accessdate=22 May 2018}}</ref> She appeared as the charac
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  • '''Wilfred Pickles''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (13 October 1904 – 27 March 1978) was an English actor and r ...ued an acting career in London's [[West End theatre|West End theatre]], on television and on film.
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...on before joining the [[w:BBC|BBC]]. He appeared in a variety of radio and television satirical shows and theatre shows, some of which he also directed.
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