• Tim Gudgin
  ...e="last" /> After completing his National Service he started a long career at the BBC. ...that the 2011–12 season would be his last before retirement, with his last reading on 19 November 2011.<ref>[http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-11-19/tim-gud
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• Alvar Lidell
  | education = [[w:King's College School|King's College School]], Wimbledon ...ring the Second World War his distinctive voice became synonymous with the reading of news.<ref name="wimbledon">{{cite news |title=Heritage: This is the news
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• Cyril Fletcher
  ...al for a radio show. The first, ''Odd Ode'', was a comic, yet sentimental, reading of [[w:Edgar Wallace|Edgar Wallace]]'s war poem ''Dreamin' of Thee''. Follo ...f> he graduated from the [[w:Guildhall School of Music and Drama|Guildhall School of Music and Drama]].
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• John Fortune
  ...author-link= Maev Kennedy }}</ref> He was educated at [[Bristol Cathedral School]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]], where he was to meet and form a lastin ...a TV debate with John Bird, [[Kenny Everett]]'s horror spoof ''[[Bloodbath at the House of Death]]'' (1984), ''[[England, My England]]'' (1995), ''[[Mayb
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• Jo Kendall
  | education = [[Royal Central School of Speech and Drama|Royal Central School of Speech and Drama]]}} ...Leicester she trained at the [[Central School of Speech and Drama|Central School of Speech and Drama]] and gained her [[Licentiate of the Royal Academy of M
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• Neil McCarthy (actor)
  ...J. K. Smith]] and author [[Colin Dexter]]) before reading modern languages at [[Trinity College Dublin]], and trained as a Latin and French teacher (he c ...is teacher training, McCarthy appeared in repertory theatre in [[Oxford]], at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] and in the [[West End theatre|West End]].
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• Lizbeth Webb
  | birth_place = [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]], England ...in [[Caversham, Berkshire|Caversham]], Reading. As a child, she excelled at rowing, swimming and running.<ref name=Teleobit>{{cite news|title=Obituary:
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• Jimmy Edwards
  ...[[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]] and as a [[choral scholar|choral scholar]] at [[St John's College, Cambridge|St John's College]], where he sang in the [[ ...ve-date= 18 March 2017 }}</ref> His [[Douglas DC-3|Dakota|]] was shot down at [[Operation Market Garden|Arnhem]] in 1944, resulting in facial injuries re
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• Dennis Price
  ...e]]. He studied acting at the [[Embassy Theatre (London)|Embassy Theatre]] School of Acting.<ref name=gaye/> ...oydon|Croydon]] Repertory Theatre in June 1937, followed by a London debut at the [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]] on 6 September 1937 in ''[[Richard
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• John Howard Davies
  ...JHD, his credits as a [[w:child actor|child actor]] include the title role at the age of nine in [[w:David Lean|David Lean]]'s production ''[[w:Oliver T ...basic education at [[w:Haileybury and Imperial Service College|Haileybury School]],<ref name = guardobit/> he gained further education in [[w:Grenoble|Greno
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• Eric Chappell
  ...ppell''' (25 September 1933 – 21 April 2022)<ref>[https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/6824/rip-eric-chappell/ Rising Damp writer Eric Chappell dies aged 88] ...in [[Grantham]], [[Lincolnshire]], and educated at Grantham boys’ central school.<ref name="Coveney">{{cite news|last=Coveney|first=Michael|url=https://www.
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• David Tomlinson
  ...<ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/> His father then secured him a job as a clerk at [[w:Shell Mex House|Shell Mex House]]. ...|date=2 June 2016 |access-date=17 February 2017}}</ref> However, in 1992, at the age of 75, he appeared on the ''[[w:Wogan|Wogan]]'' talk show along wit
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• Bill Pertwee
  ...independent school, followed by [[Frensham Heights School|Frensham Heights School]] in Surrey, Dartford Technical College and Southend College. ...e Air Training Corps (UK Air Cadets). He later worked as an accounts clerk at the Stock Exchange and as a salesman for the clothing retailer [[Burberry|B
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• Alma Cogan
  ...n-lipman-as-mumsey-6184455/|title=The Crystal Maze gives us out first look at Maureen Lipman as Mumsey|newspaper=[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]]}}</r ...at the age of eleven, competed in the "Sussex Queen of Song" contest held at a [[Brighton]] hotel, winning a prize of £5.
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• Anton Rodgers
  | death_place = [[w:Reading, Berkshire|Reading]], England ...spx?n=anton-rodgers&pid=99133334|title = Mr. Anton Rodgers|newspaper = [[w:Reading Post|]]|date = 6 December 2007|publisher = [[w:Legacy.com|]]|accessdate = 4
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• Paul Eddington
  ...ef name="Arts 2000, p. 65"/> Eddington attended [[w:Sibford School|Sibford School]], [[w:Sibford Ferris|Sibford Ferris]], [[w:Oxfordshire|Oxfordshire]]. In 1 ...d Repertory Theatre|Sheffield Repertory Theatre]], a theatre company based at Sheffield Playhouse, and made his first TV appearance in 1956 as a regular
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• Richard Vernon
  ...ar]] served in the [[Royal Navy]]. He trained as an actor at the [[Central School of Speech and Drama]].<ref name="Independent 13 Dec 1997">{{cite web|url=ht ...ependent 13 Dec 1997"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f5efab7|title=Fellows [26/06/1967] (1967)|website=BFI}}</ref> He also
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• Robin Bailey
  ...tinghamshire]].<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f426b58|title=Robin Bailey}}</ref> ...alist Sports College#As Henry Mellish Grammar School|Henry Mellish Grammar School, Nottingham]].<ref>Who's who in the theatre: A Biographical Record of the C
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• Reg Varney
  ....bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7732403.stm |title=On The Buses' Varney dies at 92 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=16 November 2008 | date=16 November 2008 ...nd after leaving school at 14, he worked as a messenger boy and a page boy at the [[Regent Palace Hotel]].
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• Michael Balcon
  ...defective eyesight, and joined the [[Dunlop Rubber Company]]'s huge plant at [[Aston#Aston Cross|Aston Cross]] in 1915, rising to become personal assist ...)|The Ring]] showing that Hitchcock's talent was growing and diversifying. At first, Balcon was doubtful about 'The Lodger' but after a re-edit by [[Ivor
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