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  • ...ace = [[w:Cwm, Blaenau Gwent|Cwm]]|df=y, [[w:Ebbw Vale|Ebbw Vale]], Wales ...place = [[w:Monmouth|Monmouth]], [[w:Monmouthshire|Monmouthshire]], Wales
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  • ...ry|bawdy humour]] also deals with taboos surrounding [[premarital sex]], [[LGBT stereotypes|gay stereotypes]] and the practice of [[child marriage]]. ...der |series-link=The Black Adder |credits=Rowan Atkinson & Richard Curtis (writers) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=6 July 1983 |series-no=1 |numb
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  • ...1963 and 1971 on [[BBC One]], and ''[[The Stanley Baxter Picture Show]]'' from 1972 to 1975 on [[ITV Network|ITV]]; the six-part ''Stanley Baxter Series'' ...[[Humphrey Carpenter]], a children's show about a magic teacher, expelled from Walpurgis (the wizard land) for failing his professional examinations. He l
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  • ...er and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in ''[[Whack-O!]]''. ...ghts]] revue. He gained wider exposure as a radio performer in ''[[Take It From Here]]'', co-starring [[Dick Bentley]], which first paired his writer [[Fra
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  • ...h Marks (1879–1965), a former opera singer. The family surname was changed from "Bramble" by Wilfrid's grandfather Frederick William Brambell. His two olde Brambell had roles in film and television from 1947, first appearing (uncredited) in ''[[Odd Man Out]]'' as a tram passeng
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  • ...was an English [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for ''[[The Observer]]''; ...ften entered its tropical Palm House and there chatted to wounded soldiers from a nearby military hospital. It was the incongruity of this sight, men smoki
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  • ...ton Mowbray]]. He enjoyed science, acting and comedy and, after graduating from [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] and [[St Bartho In his personal life, Chapman was openly homosexual and a supporter of [[LGBT rights by country or territory|gay rights]], and was in a [[Domestic partne
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  • ...mwell Road, as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his [[stage name]] from the theatrical knight, [[Sir Charles Hawtrey]], whose surname was a differe ...That Fire?]]'' (1939). In all he appeared in more than 70 films, including from this period [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Sabotage (1936 film)|Sabotage]]'' (1
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  • Everett was dismissed from the BBC in 1970 after making remarks about a government minister's wife. He ...988|Local Government Act]] which made it illegal for councils to promote [[LGBT rights in the United Kingdom|gay rights and issues]]. He was diagnosed with
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  • ...d be avoided when the country to which the subject belongs can be inferred from the country of birth." --> ...astic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa; [[Paddington, New South Wales|Paddington]] socialist academic Neil Singleton; sleazy trade union official
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