• Sheila Fearn
  | birth_place = [[Leicester|Leicester]], England '''Sheila Fearn''' (born 3 October 1940 in [[Leicester|Leicester]]) is an English retired [[actress|actress]] best known for playing [[Audre
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• Stan Boardman
  .... A joke – about the [[Second World War]] reminiscences of a [[Polish people|Polish]] pilot who flew in the [[Royal Air Force]] – made play on th ...1}}{{r|Sayid}} This led to a planned appearance at a [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] event being cancelled.{{r|BBC1}}
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• Wallas Eaton
  | birth_place = [[Leicester]], [[Leicestershire]], England ...[[theatre]] [[actor]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba63e7437|title=Wallas Eaton|website=BFI}}</ref><ref name=theatricalia>
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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] ...">{{cite news|last=Hewett|first=Richard|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1367178/index.html|title=Chappell, Eric (1933-)|website=BFI Screenonline
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• Pauline Yates
  ..., a comedy sketch show for radio, which was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 15 February 1971.) In 1970 she appeared as Mme Arnoux in ''[[Sentimental Ed ...e |first=British Comedy |title=Pauline Yates |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/pauline_yates/ |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=British Comedy Guide |langu
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• Jo Kendall
  ...n the ITV soap opera ''[[Emmerdale|Emmerdale]]'' (then ''Emmerdale Farm'') from 1972 to 1973, in which she also spoke the programme's first line of dialogu ...Academy of Music|Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music]] (LRAM).<ref>''Leicester Mercury'', 30 October 1965.</ref>
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• Bill Maynard
  ...000, reprising the character in the spin-off ''[[w:The Royal|The Royal]]'' from 2002 to 2003. ...[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]] (1959–64). He also served for [[BBC Radio Leicester]] during the 1960s, until his departure in 1968.
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• Betty Driver
  | birth_place = [[Leicester]], England ...895 |title=BBC News - Coronation Street actress Betty Driver dies, aged 91 from kidney failure. |work=BBC |date=2011-10-15 |access-date=2011-12-11}}</ref>
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• Hugh Paddick
  ...chive-date=28 September 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was an [[w:English people|English]] actor. He starred in the 1960s [[w:BBC|BBC]] radio show ''[[Round ...eatre to any other form of acting and spent most of his life on the stage, from his first role while at acting school in 1937<ref name="times">[https://web
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• John Antrobus
  ...dhurst]], serving with the [[w:East Surrey Regiment|East Surrey Regiment]] from 1952 to 1955,<ref name="auto">Contemporary Dramatists, ed. James Vinson, St ...d]], was recorded as a live radio play at The [[w:Leicester Square Theatre|Leicester Square Theatre]] by The [[w:Wireless Theatre Company|Wireless Theatre Compa
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• Graham McCann
  | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...unless the exact date is already widely published, as per [[WP:DOB]]. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. -->
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• Roger Livesey
  ...rica, and then returned to join the [[Old Vic]]/[[Sadler's Wells]] company from September 1932 until May 1934. In 1936 he appeared in [[New York City]] in ...worked in an aircraft factory at [[RAF Desford|Desford aerodrome]] near [[Leicester]] to "do his bit for the war effort".
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• Derek Nimmo
  ...then a grammar school under headmaster R. F. Bailey, who brought with him, from his previous position as assistant headmaster at leading independent school ...was felt that he seemed less at ease as a chat show host. Having been away from television for some time, he made an appearance in the Australian televisio
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• British Comedy Guide
  ...dy Guide include a series of podcasts, a section featuring interviews with people working in the British comedy industry and a [[w:Twitter|Twitter]]-based ne ...ign of the layout, a new logo, and increased coverage of online comedy and people working in British comedy.
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• Donald Sinden
  ...results/3475/Donald%20Alfred+SINDEN.aspx |date=17 July 2011}}, ''Debrett's People of Today''; accessed 15 December 2013.</ref> and later trained as an actor ...5/08/orations/sinden Sir Donald Sinden CBE (DLitt) – Actor — University of Leicester]. Swww2.le.ac.uk:8443.</ref>
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• Graham Chapman
  | birth_place = [[Leicester]], England ...ton Mowbray]]. He enjoyed science, acting and comedy and, after graduating from [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] and [[St Bartho
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• The Titfield Thunderbolt
  ..., or passengers being asked to assist in pushing the carriages, were taken from incidents on the Talyllyn Railway recounted in ''Railway Adventure''. ...erford and retired track layer Dan Taylor in running the train, volunteers from the village help to operate the station.
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• Rutland Weekend Television
  ...ce in April 1974 so, supposedly, there were tax advantages to broadcasting from somewhere that did not legally exist. This framework allowed for a range of ...). A Rutland TV station would be pretty small (representing roughly 30,000 people in an area less than 150 square miles), so a Rutland {{em|Weekend}} Televis
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• The Best of Sellers
  ...[[George Martin]]. Despite initial concerns about its commercial viability from EMI, ''The Best of Sellers'' was a major success, receiving critical acclai ..., appearing with [[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]] in ''Ray's a Laugh'' and, from 1951, alongside [[Spike Milligan]], [[Harry Secombe]] and [[Michael Bentine
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• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  ...Paradine". Cleese and Chapman began writing the script following patronage from Frost. Cook and Billington were later called upon to complete the writing a ...firm's mostly ineffectual staff and soon acquires control of the business from the incompetent boss Ferret ([[Arthur Lowe]]). Rimmer then succeeds in esta
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