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- ...s range from the practical (stealing pills from the prison doctor and eggs from the prison farmyard), to the symbolic (finding new and imaginative ways to ...h is also manipulative, and can play upon the sympathies and weaknesses of people like the liberal warden, [[Mr Barrowclough]], and the ineffectual prison go7 KB (1,111 words) - 10:41, 17 March 2023
- ...ated to Wisbech in Cambridgeshire during the Second World War, he ran away from his assigned home there, cycling 20 miles to Peterborough in order to get a ...1954.<ref name="screenonline">John Oliver [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/532391/ "Took, Barry (1928–2002)"], BFI screenonline</ref> The two men9 KB (1,308 words) - 20:04, 15 January 2023
- |birth_place=[[Muswell Hill]], [[London]], England ...tie True]]''.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f3eedd1|title=Dilys Laye|website=BFI}}</ref>12 KB (1,803 words) - 08:01, 30 March 2023
- | death_place = [[Muswell Hill]], London, England ...Cats]]'' from 2005 to 2015, and on ''[[8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]]'' from 2012 until his death in 2021.44 KB (5,947 words) - 13:45, 19 March 2023
- ...as a home for his new wife June who was then pregnant and on her way back from [[w:Australia|Australia]]. Eventually Max Geldray and vocalist [[Ray Elling ...-natal fever and had to leave the baby in Spike’s hands. A full-time nurse from [[w:New Zealand|New Zealand]] was assigned to assist the family, with Spike62 KB (10,149 words) - 19:46, 21 January 2023
- ...tten by [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]], and broadcast on [[BBC1]] from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series and two Christmas specials ...ters of Porridge (TV series)#Lennie Godber|Lennie Godber]], a naïve inmate from [[Birmingham]] serving his first sentence, whom Fletcher takes under his wi24 KB (3,563 words) - 09:01, 3 February 2023
- ...ed four times and had three children from his first two marriages. He died from a heart attack, aged 54, in 1980. English filmmakers the [[Boulting brother ...particular. He was prone to laziness, but his natural talents shielded him from criticism by his teachers.{{sfn|Moritz|1961|p=371}} Sellers recalled that a128 KB (19,030 words) - 19:48, 18 July 2024