"""Heartbeat"". Alan J. W. Bell responded that Radio Times has always been anti-""Last of the Summer Wine"", and Roy Clarke remarked that people who dislike the show ""shouldn't switch it on"" unless they are ""too idle to turn it off"". A 2008 survey by ""County Life"" magazine, which named the show the worst thing about Yorkshire, was disputed by members of the Holme Valley Business Association, who said the show was good for business. The BBC wanted to cancel ""Last of the Summer Wine"" for years in favour of a new programme aimed at a younger audience, but the show"
"Roy Clarke Royston Clarke OBE (born 28 January 1930) is an English comedy writer best known for creating the sitcoms ""Last of the Summer Wine"", ""Keeping Up Appearances"", ""Open All Hours"" and its sequel series, ""Still Open All Hours"". Clarke was born in Austerfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. His jobs before becoming a writer included teacher, policeman, taxi driver, salesman and also soldier in the Royal Corps of Signals of the British Army. Clarke was the sole writer of ""Last of the Summer Wine"", which at its peak had over 18 million viewers. During its long run it featured Bill"
"The Last Rose of Summer ""The Last Rose of Summer"" is a poem by the Irish poet Thomas Moore. He wrote it in 1805, while staying at Jenkinstown Park in County Kilkenny, Ireland, where he was said to have been inspired by a specimen of Rosa 'Old Blush'. The poem is set to a traditional tune called ""Aislean an Oigfear"", or ""The Young Man's Dream"", which was transcribed by Edward Bunting in 1792, based on a performance by harper Denis Hempson (Donnchadh Ó hÁmsaigh) at the Belfast Harp Festival. The poem and the tune together were published in December 1813"
"The Last of the Wine The Last of the Wine is Mary Renault's first novel set in ancient Greece, the setting that would become her most important arena. The novel was published in 1956 and is the second of her works to feature male homosexuality as a major theme. It was a bestseller within the gay community. The book is a portrait of Athens at the close of the Golden Age and the end of the Peloponnesian War with Sparta, and includes Socrates as a character. The novel is narrated by Alexias, a noble Athenian youth, who becomes a noted"
"Bill Owen (actor) William John Owen Rowbotham, (14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999), known professionally as Bill Owen, was an English actor and songwriter. He was the father of actor Tom Owen. He is best known for portraying Compo Simmonite in the Yorkshire based BBC comedy series Last of the Summer Wine for 27 years. He died in July 1999, his last appearance on-screen being shown in April 2000. Born in London, Owen made his first film appearance in 1944, but did not achieve lasting fame until 1973, when he took the starring role of William ""Compo"" Simmonite in"
"treatment of homosexuality in Ancient Greece."" The Last of the Wine The Last of the Wine is Mary Renault's first novel set in ancient Greece, the setting that would become her most important arena. The novel was published in 1956 and is the second of her works to feature male homosexuality as a major theme. It was a bestseller within the gay community. The book is a portrait of Athens at the close of the Golden Age and the end of the Peloponnesian War with Sparta, and includes Socrates as a character. The novel is narrated by Alexias, a noble"
"the long-running British sitcom ""Last of the Summer Wine"". Owen's character is a scruffy working-class pensioner, often exploited by the bossy characters played by Michael Bates, Brian Wilde, Michael Aldridge and Frank Thornton for dirty jobs, stunts and escapades, while their indomitably docile friend Norman Clegg, played by Peter Sallis, follows and watches with a smirk. He wore a woollen hat and spent much of his time lusting after dowdy housewife Nora Batty. As Compo, Owen saw off several co-stars. The series, starting in 1973 and finishing in 2010, is today the world's longest-running comedy series. Owen became an icon,"
"Juliette Kaplan Marlene Juliette Kaplan is a British actress, whose married name is Marlene Hoser. She is most famous for playing the role of battle-axe Pearl Sibshaw in the BBC comedy ""Last of the Summer Wine"", from 1985 to 2010. Kaplan was born in Bournemouth, to Jewish parents and spent her early years in South Africa. She has also appeared in many British drama series including ""Doctors"", ""Brookside"", ""EastEnders"" and ""London's Burning"". She also appeared in the film, ""The Death of Klinghoffer"". Juliette appeared in ""Last of the Summer Wine"" from 1985 until the very final episode on 29 August"
"The Last Song (novel) The Last Song is a 2009 novel by American author Nicholas Sparks. ""The Last Song"" is Sparks' fourteenth published novel (fifteenth published book), and was written specifically as the basis for the film adaptation by the same name. It was released on September 1, 2009 by Grand Central Publishing. The story revolves around the summer of Ronnie (Veronica) Miller's seventeenth year, during which she is sent to stay with her estranged father. Through their shared love of music, the duo reconnect. 17-year-old Veronica ""Ronnie"" Miller is a troubled teenager who is wanting to live her own"
"Summer's Last Will and Testament Summer's Last Will and Testament is an Elizabethan stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Nashe. The play is notable for breaking new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama: ""No earlier English comedy has anything like the intellectual content or the social relevance that it has."" Although Nashe is known as an Elizabethan playwright, ""Summer's Last Will and Testament"" is his only extant solo-authored play; his other surviving dramatic work, ""Dido, Queen of Carthage"", is a collaboration with Christopher Marlowe, in which Nashe's role was probably very minimal. The play was entered into"
"The Wine of Summer The Wine of Summer is a 2013 romantic drama film written, directed and produced by Maria Matteoli, starring Elsa Pataky, Sonia Braga, Ethan Peck, Najwa Nimri, Bob Wells and Marcia Gay Harden. James (Peck), at the age of 27 quits his law career in pursuit of his childhood dream of becoming an actor. While studying acting under the tutelage of Shelley (Harden), he becomes engrossed in Carlo Lucchesi's play, Tinto de Verano, which is set in Spain. James’ girlfriend Brit (Chow) leaves him, and he spontaneously flies to Spain, where he encounters the playwright Lucchesi (Wells)"
"the band, as are the band Flipron. The juggler Haggis McLeod and his late wife, Arabella Churchill, one of the founders of the Glastonbury Festival, lived in the town. The author and dramatist Nell Leyshon and she has set much of her work in the local area. Sarah Fielding, the 18th-century author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding, lived in the town. Michael Aldridge, a character actor who appeared as Seymour in the television series ""Last of the Summer Wine"", was born in Glastonbury. The conductor Charles Hazlewood lives locally and hosts the ""Play the Field"" music festival on"
"Sallis died at the Denville Hall nursing home in Northwood, London, on 2 June 2017 at the age of 96. He was buried next to fellow ""Last of the Summer Wine"" actor Bill Owen in the churchyard of St John's Parish Church, Upperthong, near the town of Holmfirth in Yorkshire, the home of ""Last of the Summer Wine"". Peter Sallis Peter John Sallis, (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor. He was the voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning ""Wallace and Gromit"" films and played Norman ""Cleggy"" Clegg in ""Last of the Summer Wine"" from"
"Michael Aldridge Michael William ffolliott Aldridge (9 September 1920 – 10 January 1994) was an English actor. He was known for playing Seymour in the television series ""Last of the Summer Wine"" from 1986 to 1990 and he had a long career as a character actor on stage and screen dating back to the 1930s. The son of Dr Frederick James Aldridge and his wife Kathleen Michaela Marietta White, Aldridge was born in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, on 9 September 1920. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, where he acted in school plays. In his last year at school"
"Summer's Last Will and Testament (Lambert) Summer's Last Will and Testament is a choral masque or cantata by Constant Lambert, written between 1932 and 1935, and premiered in 1936. It is scored for chorus and orchestra, with a baritone solo also featured in the last of its seven movements. It is based on the poem of the same name by Thomas Nashe, written around 1592. Lambert considered the work his magnum opus, and it is his largest work in any genre. However, it attracted little attention at its 1936 premiere and had only one or two other performances in Lambert's"
"bread and jam. At the time of his death, he was living in Greenwich, London. Michael Aldridge Michael William ffolliott Aldridge (9 September 1920 – 10 January 1994) was an English actor. He was known for playing Seymour in the television series ""Last of the Summer Wine"" from 1986 to 1990 and he had a long career as a character actor on stage and screen dating back to the 1930s. The son of Dr Frederick James Aldridge and his wife Kathleen Michaela Marietta White, Aldridge was born in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, on 9 September 1920. He was educated at Gresham's"
"Tony Capstick Joseph Anthony Capstick (27 July 1944 – 23 October 2003) was an English comedian, actor, musician and broadcaster. First son of Joe Capstick, a wireless operator in the RAF, and his wife, June, née Duncan, he was born in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and spent most of his childhood in Swinton, South Yorkshire, near Mexborough, also in the West Riding, and for over thirty years he was a presenter on BBC Radio Sheffield. Outside Sheffield, he is perhaps better known as one of the policemen in the long-running British sitcom, ""Last of the Summer Wine"", where"
"The Last Summer of Reason The Last Summer of Reason () is a novel by Algerian writer Tahar Djaout. It was originally written and published in French. The English translation was produced by Marjolijn de Jagar, and published by Ruminator Press in 2001, with a foreword by Wole Soyinka. The novel was published posthumously. Boualem Yekker is a bookseller in a country probably modelled on Algeria. His home is firmly in the grip of religious fundamentalists, but only recently: it was once a republic, but now it is a ""Community in the Faith"". Djaout presents readers with a terrifying world"
"the last series, Gilbert won a BAFTA in 1974 for Best Comedy, and was also nominated that year for ""Last of the Summer Wine"" in the category. He succeeded Michael Mills as the BBC's Head of Comedy from 1973–1977. Gilbert was appointed as the BBC's Head of Light Entertainment in 1977, in succession to Bill Cotton, remaining in the post and with the BBC until 1982. Subsequently, he worked as a freelance. In 2003, Gilbert appeared on the documentary special ""30 Years of Last of the Summer Wine"" to discuss his role in helping to create the series. James Gilbert"
"The book was written by Morris Bright and Robert Ross and chronicled the show from its inception through the end of the 2000 series. Included were interviews with cast and crew, a character guide, and an episode guide. Both the companion guide and its updated 30th anniversary version are now out of print. A release by journalist Andrew Vine titled ""Last of the Summer Wine: The Inside Story of the World's Longest-running Comedy Programme"" covered the entire series, including the story of the final words of the series. It was released on 16 August 2010. On 5 November 2012, a"
"film ""Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise"". In 2007 he played Frank Nicholls in Coronation Street having previously appeared in the series in the guise of a different character; that of Les Battersby's mate, Charlie West. He won a Sony Radio Award in 1993 for his portrayal of the Lancashire comedian Frank Randle in the play ""Randle's Scandals"". Children Danny Clifford, Adam Clifford, Rebecca Clifford, Rachel Clifford. Keith Clifford Keith Clifford (born 20 June 1938 in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British actor best known for his role as Billy Hardcastle in Last of the Summer Wine between 1999"
"The Last Summer (novella) The Last Summer is a novella by the Russian writer Boris Pasternak. Originally published in 1934 under the Russian title ""Povest"" (""A Story""), the book relates the reminiscences of Serezha, a young Muscovite spending the winter of 1915-16 with his sister's family in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. Serezha's flashbacks to the summer of 1914, when he worked as a tutor in the house of a wealthy Moscow merchant and associated with various women, form the bulk of the novella. The book was translated into English by George Reavey and was first published in English"
"from the Mystery Plays themselves, there are occasionally other performances. For example, in 2003, ""Mister Wesley"", a new play by Roy Clarke, who also wrote Last of the Summer Wine, was performed in Lincoln and Southwell. In 2014, ""The Last Post"" was performed by the Lincoln Mystery Plays company at The Drill Hall, and based on the true story of the Beechey brothers. The Beecheys' were a local family in the first World War, who had eight brothers, all of which signed up to fight. Of the eight, five were killed and one was badly injured. The family's youngest daughter,"
"and Bobby Coleman as Jonah. The Last Song (novel) The Last Song is a 2009 novel by American author Nicholas Sparks. ""The Last Song"" is Sparks' fourteenth published novel (fifteenth published book), and was written specifically as the basis for the film adaptation by the same name. It was released on September 1, 2009 by Grand Central Publishing. The story revolves around the summer of Ronnie (Veronica) Miller's seventeenth year, during which she is sent to stay with her estranged father. Through their shared love of music, the duo reconnect. 17-year-old Veronica ""Ronnie"" Miller is a troubled teenager who is"
"Thomas Moore Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of ""The Minstrel Boy"" and ""The Last Rose of Summer"". As Lord Byron's named literary executor, along with John Murray, Moore was responsible for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore. From a relatively early age Moore showed an interest in music and other performing arts. He sometimes appeared in musical plays with his friends, such as ""The Poor Soldier"" by John O'Keeffe (music"
"“The Last Time”. ""and The Famous Flames:"" ""with the James Brown Band:"" Maybe the Last Time ""Maybe the Last Time"" is a song written by James Brown (under the pseudonym Ted Wright) and recorded by Brown and the Famous Flames in 1964. It was released as the B-side of ""Out of Sight"" and was also included on the ""Out of Sight"" album. Brown described it as ""a heavy gospel-based number, all about appreciating friends and everything while you can because each time you see somebody may be the last time, you don't know."" It was the last studio recording Brown"
"Last Day of Summer Last Day of Summer is a 2009 drama-comedy film written, produced and directed by Vlad Yudin of The Vladar Company, featuring DJ Qualls, Nikki Reed, and William Sadler. Gregory (a.k.a. ""Joe"") (DJ Qualls) is a disturbed fast-food worker, who has reached the end of his mental tether after being tormented and humiliated by his cruel boss, Mr. Crolick (William Sadler). Fed up with Joe’s ineptitude, Crolick fires Joe. Joe soon hatches a deadly plot for revenge and returns to the restaurant only to become side-tracked when he catches the eye of Stefanie (Nikki Reed), a beautiful"
"Jonathan Linsley Jonathan Linsley (born 17 January 1956) is an English actor who made his professional debut in 1980. He appeared on television in ""Last of the Summer Wine"" as ""Crusher"" Milburn (1984–87), and his film roles include """" and """", as Ogilvey aboard the ship ""Flying Dutchman"" (2006–07). Linsley's father was from Ramsgate, Kent, and his mother from Cockfield, County Durham; they met during the Second World War when his father was stationed with the tank regiment at Barnard Castle. Linsley was born at Bradford, and raised at Halesowen, near Birmingham, from the age of three, when his father's"
"Peter Sallis Peter John Sallis, (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor. He was the voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning ""Wallace and Gromit"" films and played Norman ""Cleggy"" Clegg in ""Last of the Summer Wine"" from its 1973 inception until its final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes. Although Sallis was born and brought up in London, the characters of Wallace and Clegg were both Northerner. He also voiced Rat in ""The Wind in the Willows"", appeared in ""Danger Man"" in the episode ""Find and Destroy"""
"Last Days of Summer Last Days of Summer is 1998 novel written by Steve Kluger. It is an epistolary novel told completely through forms of correspondence; letters, postcards, interviews with a psychiatrist, progress reports, and newspaper clippings. Taking place in 1940s Brooklyn, the bulk of the novel consists of letters written between fictional New York Giants third baseman Charlie Banks and Jewish twelve-year-old Joey Margolis. Joey Margolis, a Jewish boy growing up in a tough Italian neighbourhood, is burdened with beatings from neighborhood kids, his parents' divorce, and an absent father who repeatedly lets him down. In addition, he is"
"of his musical setting. Summer's Last Will and Testament Summer's Last Will and Testament is an Elizabethan stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Nashe. The play is notable for breaking new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama: ""No earlier English comedy has anything like the intellectual content or the social relevance that it has."" Although Nashe is known as an Elizabethan playwright, ""Summer's Last Will and Testament"" is his only extant solo-authored play; his other surviving dramatic work, ""Dido, Queen of Carthage"", is a collaboration with Christopher Marlowe, in which Nashe's role was probably very minimal. The"
"Farewell Summer Farewell Summer is a novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published on October 17, 2006. It was his last novel released in his lifetime. It is a sequel to his 1957 novel ""Dandelion Wine"", and is set during an Indian summer in October 1929. The story concerns a mock war between the young and the old in Green Town, Illinois, and the sexual awakening of Doug Spaulding as he turns 14. With ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"", they form a trilogy of novels inspired by Bradbury's childhood in Waukegan, Illinois. The first chapter, also titled ""Farewell Summer"", appeared"
"Joe Gladwin Joseph Gladwin (22 January 1906 – 11 March 1987) was an English actor, best known in his roles as Fred Jackson in Coronation Street and Wally Batty in the world's longest-running sitcom, ""Last of the Summer Wine"" (1975, 1976–87). Gladwin was born at 44 Tatton Street in the Ordsall district of Salford, Lancashire, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (née Dooley) Gladwin. His father was a coal dealer. Gladwin was baptised on 28 January 1906 at Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church, Ordsall, and educated at the parish school. He married Lily Anne Wynne on 30 December 1933 at"