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  • ...019/08/10/43930/nicholas_parsons_has_been_admitted_to_hosptial |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= 10 August 2019 |website=[[chortle.co.uk]] From 2001, he appeared annually at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] presenting his comedy cabaret show ''The Happy Hour''.<ref name=bbcobit/>
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  • ...e came to prominence in the early 1960s in the comedy revue ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'' with [[Peter Cook]], [[Dudley Moore]] and [[w:Alan Bennett|Alan Bennett ...nder Twenty Parade''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilmut|first1=Roger|title=From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980|dat
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  • ...in September 1934 in ''[[Dangerous Corner]]'' at the Palladium Theatre in Edinburgh under his birth name, and appeared on television for the first time four ye | rowspan=11 | [[Palladium Theatre, Edinburgh]]
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  • As Bridger celebrates with his fellow prisoners and prison staff, the coach suddenly loses control and teeters over a cliff, with the gold b ...//www.britishtheatreguide.info/otherresources/fringe/fringe03-20.htm|title=Fringe 2003 Reviews (20)|work=The British Theatre Guide|first=Peter|last=Lathan|da
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  • ...with animation to replace the missing images.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title='Lost' Dad's Army show back on TV |url=htt ...show titled, ''Dad's Army Radio Hour'', opened at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] It starred [[David Benson]] and Jack Lane. Between them, the pair voiced
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  • ...ision show ''[[Andy Pandy]]'', they gained bookings across London and in [[Edinburgh]].{{sfn|O'Grady|2012|pp=166–174}} ...pp=63–64|2a1=O'Grady|2y=2015|2p=114}} He later related that "The Edinburgh Festival changed my life. The experience opened doors for me that would otherwise ha
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  • ...l Film was received with great acclaim at the Edinburgh International Film Festival from late August while Dishonoured -Again was rerun on The Best of the Best On Wednesday 23 May, Peter and Spike joined ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'' stars [[Peter Cook]] and [[Jonathan Miller]] to record a comedy album
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  • ...to obscure less matter with more art".<ref>Hordern, pp. 96–97.</ref> After Edinburgh, Benthall took ''Hamlet'' on a provincial tour and the play had a successfu ...], Oxford, on 2{{nbsp}}May 1995, at the age of 83.<ref name=dnb /> Medical staff confirmed that he had been suffering from "a long illness and had been rece
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