"Dale Connelly Dale Connelly (born 4 October 1955) was co-host (with Tom Keith, aka Jim Ed Poole) of ""The Morning Show"" on Minnesota Public Radio. The program was carried on KCMP 89.3 ""The Current"" in the Twin Cities and live on MPR's classical music network in outstate Minnesota. Connelly took over for Garrison Keillor, who was the original host along with Tom Keith. The show aired for more than 30 years. On October 15, 2008, Keith announced his intention to retire on December 11. The Morning Show was discontinued after a final live performance at the Fitzgerald Theater in St."
"Britain as that of Queen Elizabeth II, for it was heard twice a day by seven million devoted listeners. Miss Powell was Britain's most sacrosanct fictional paragon, Mrs. Dale, in the radio serial Mrs. Dale's Diary. And now, after fifteen years in the role she had created, the BBC had summarily fired her partly because of her drinking habits, and partly because it was felt that the role, and also the entire programme, was in need of a facelift. Three months later, at the age of fifty-seven, she died. Her friends believed she never recovered from the shock and distress"
"a wealthy printing magnate. In early childhood Dale was diagnosed with Perthes disease, which affects the hip joint, and which she suffered with until the age of nine, spending time in a children's hospital in irons from feet to chest. On her graduation, she worked in London as a public relations officer for the airline Qantas. An active socialite described by family and friends as having ""tremendous ""joie de vivre"","" within two weeks of arriving in England she had met Anthony Tryon, 3rd Baron Tryon, who was a member of Prince Charles's inner circle. It was through her husband that"
"Aunt Daisy Maud Ruby Basham (née Taylor; 30 August 1879 – 14 July 1963), usually known as Daisy Basham or professionally as Aunt Daisy, was a New Zealand radio broadcaster from 1930 to 1963. Her various nicknames included ""New Zealand's First Lady of the Radio"", ""Everybody's Aunt"" and ""The Mighty Atom"" due to her 'radio activity' but also a comment on her small stature. She was born in London, England, to Robert and Eliza Taylor. Her father died shortly after she was born and her mother soon emigrated to New Plymouth in 1891. At 16 she began a four year"
"actor in radio plays, and schools programmes. She appeared in several films during the 1930s including a lead role in the comedy ""Love Up the Pole"" (1936) and supporting roles in ""Mayfair Melody"" (1936) and ""Annie Laurie"" (1939). She appeared a number of times in singing roles in the first full year of regular BBC Television broadcasting. She was engaged throughout the Second World War on children's programmes, and in her post-war career she became noted as radio actor, voicing the character of Mrs Mountford in the popular ""Mrs Dale's Diary"", and appearing in several hundred radio plays. She was"
"of her summary dismissal by the BBC. In the last weeks of her life she worked as a demonstrator at the Ideal Home Exhibition and as a cleaner in an hotel. In its last years, ""The Dales"" became more sensational. Mrs Dale became a councillor, a position she had to relinquish when she caused a man's death by careless driving. A heart attack forced Dr Dale to retire from practice. Perhaps the most famous storyline was Jenny getting measles; listeners wrote in thousands complaining that she had already had measles in 1949. When it became ""The Dales"", the show did"
"was still broadcasting up to a few days beforehand. Aunt Daisy Maud Ruby Basham (née Taylor; 30 August 1879 – 14 July 1963), usually known as Daisy Basham or professionally as Aunt Daisy, was a New Zealand radio broadcaster from 1930 to 1963. Her various nicknames included ""New Zealand's First Lady of the Radio"", ""Everybody's Aunt"" and ""The Mighty Atom"" due to her 'radio activity' but also a comment on her small stature. She was born in London, England, to Robert and Eliza Taylor. Her father died shortly after she was born and her mother soon emigrated to New Plymouth"
"Radio historian John Dunning wrote, ""His [the character's] name was Dennis Day, but not, he emphasized, the same Dennis Day as that bright young man on the air with Jack Benny."" Plots often derived from problems with his girlfriend and her parents. Before the show ended, it changed to a variety format. Being the star of his own program was a departure from Day's previous experience as a regular on Benny's show. ""I'm just as scared as I was in 1939 [when he joined Benny's show],"" he said. ""You know, you get used to being a stooge. This one I'll"
"Mrs Dale's Diary Mrs Dale's Diary was the first significant BBC radio serial drama. It was first broadcast on 5 January 1948 on the BBC Light Programme, which became Radio 2 in 1967; it ran until 25 April 1969. A new episode was broadcast each weekday afternoon, with a repeat the following morning. A few days after the final episode, a new serial drama, ""Waggoners' Walk"", took over the time slot. The main scriptwriter for many years was Jonquil Antony, and her first collaborator (under a pseudonym) was Ted Willis, later to originate equally well-known characters for ""Dixon of Dock"
"Margaret Dale (dancer) Margaret Dale (30 December 1922 – 28 January 2010) was a British dancer who later became a producer and Director of Dance for BBC television. She was born as Margaret Elisabeth Bolam in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to John Howden Bolam and wife Gladys Margaret (Downs). She attended Dame Allan's School at Newcastle-on-Tyne and learned dancing from age 5. Between the 1940s and 1950s, she showed a flair for comedy, and sparkling technique when the company toured Europe and North America after World War II ended. She danced lead and soloist roles. One of Dale's greatest achievements came when she"
"expert and ""Sydney Morning Herald"" journalist Bruce Elder (nicknamed ""The Professor of Pop"") and ""Sydney Morning Herald"" TV Guide editor Tony Squires, became regular highlights of the show. Like Graham Kennedy, Doyle specialised in subtly (or blatantly) undercutting the ""straight"" presentation of such stock segments, and he often veered off on tangents that he found funny or diverting, or introduced ideas which he thought might be likely to get a ""rise"" from his guest. One memorable thread was his long-running obsession with the source of a supposed ""mystery noise"" that was reputedly disturbing patrons in the Opera House Concert Hall,"
"thing is, soap-opera origins aside, Dale is always good. Which is why he keeps getting so much work...Dale never lets you down, always (well, usually) summoning up a pitch-perfect accent, too. There's something comforting about his presence on a show, as though the fact he's in it has lent it some weight."" In a profile of his work on ""cult shows"", Ben Rawson-Jones of Digital Spy called Dale an ""institution"". In 1968, Dale married his girlfriend, Claire. The couple had two children, Simon and Matthew, both of whom are involved in the entertainment industry, Simon as a radio announcer at"
"among radio's most familiar sounds. Lurene Tuttle played Marjorie; Walter Tetley, a veteran of Fred Allen's ""Town Hall Tonight"" cast and other shows, played Leroy; and, Lillian Randolph played Gildersleeve's ego-puncturing maid and housekeeper, Birdie. The show's humor, like that of ""McGee"", was drawn through clever word-play and phrasemaking as well as Gildersleeve's earnest stumbling and basically warmhearted nature. His new nemesis was Judge Horace Hooker (Earle Ross) (""That crook of a Hooker has hooked our cook!""), who oversaw his guardianship of Marjorie and Leroy and became a friend and periodic rival in various schemes. Periodically, storylines were serialized, such"
"in the style of the BBC's daily radio serial ""Mrs Dale's Diary"", a spurious look of authenticity. Politically she opposed her husband in the 1975 European Communities membership referendum, by voting against continued membership, and in her support for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Mary was widowed on 24 May 1995 when her husband died of colorectal cancer and Alzheimer's disease after ten years of illness. They were married for 55 years. She continued to live in Westminster, a short distance from Downing Street. She retained the couple's holiday home in the Isles of Scilly. In 2013, aged 97, she"
"developed Alzheimer's disease and became reclusive until his death in 1984. Dolly died almost twenty one years later, on Christmas Day 2004. Bob Dyer Robert Neal Dyer OBE (22 May 19099 January 1984), who took the stage name of Bob Dyer, was a Gold Logie-award-winning American-born vaudeville entertainer and singer, radio and television personality, and radio and television quiz show host who made his name in Australia. Dyer is best known for the long-running radio and then television quiz show, ""Pick a Box"". At the height of his radio career, Dyer and his friend and rival, Jack Davey, were regarded"
"straddles the border between the London boroughs of Brent and Harrow. Later in the series, to modernise the programme and its setting, the producers relocated the family in the fictional new town of Exton New Town. Mrs Dale's mother was Mrs Freeman, whom Jim always called, rather gravely, ""mother-in-law"". The family had one daughter, Gwen, and a son, Bob. Bob, who worked in the motor trade, was married to Jenny; they had twins. Gwen was widowed after her husband David was killed in a water-skiing accident in the Bahamas where he was holidaying with his rich mistress. Mary Dale's sister"
"Danielle Nicholls Danielle Audrey Nicholls (born 16 December 1978 in Salford, Greater Manchester) is a British television presenter, radio host and singer best known for her presenting of CITV from 1998 to 2001, and Night Fever on Channel 5. She currently hosts a radio show with her sister called ""Danielle and Jodie"", Salford City Radio, every Tuesday at 18:00. In an article in 2013 she said ""At 19 I saw an advert in ""The Stage"" (newspaper) for a wacky and fun person to work in children’s television, at the time I had no idea it was for CITV. I decided"
"previous life in the music industry. By all accounts content to lead a more private, family-oriented life in her later years, she died on 12 March 2010 of cerebrovascular disease. following an extended illness. Lesley Duncan Lesley Duncan (married name Lesley Cox; 12 August 1943 – 12 March 2010) was an English singer-songwriter, best known for her work during the 1970s. She received a lot of airplay on British radio stations such as BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2; but never achieved great commercial success, in part because of her unwillingness to chase stardom, and crippling stage fright. Duncan"
"of dance at York University in Toronto. Margaret Dale was married and divorced to John Hart and had no children. She died on 28 January 2010, aged 87. Margaret Dale (dancer) Margaret Dale (30 December 1922 – 28 January 2010) was a British dancer who later became a producer and Director of Dance for BBC television. She was born as Margaret Elisabeth Bolam in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to John Howden Bolam and wife Gladys Margaret (Downs). She attended Dame Allan's School at Newcastle-on-Tyne and learned dancing from age 5. Between the 1940s and 1950s, she showed a flair for comedy, and sparkling"
"the programme's makers considered the time was right for the subject to be featured. Richard Fulton, however, was an odd character to use, in several ways. Not least is that (though apparently based on the homosexual writer Patrick White) Richard's history in the serial was heterosexual. He was in fact a character who had developed a lot, having been presented in the early days as a monster of petulance. In February 1962, the serial was renamed The Dales. The linking narratives by Mrs Dale were dropped. The reason was that the BBC was conscious that the series was considered by"
"who want to discuss UFO sightings on the airwaves. Just prior to the final broadcast, with the program in arm's length of cancellation, Sweeney receives a strange phone call from an individual who speaks anxiously in an unintelligible language. The next morning, two federal agents turn up to question Sweeney, demonstrating heightened interest in one of the latest UFO sightings. Dale thus concludes that the caller was in fact an extraterrestrial, lost in his small town. He decides to report on the happenings during his broadcasts (which quadruples his audience size) and then bandies the locals into a collective search"
"to use women to present news and current affairs broadcasts based primarily upon their physical attractiveness: ""Socially he was a menace. There was no subtlety in his manner: at office parties he would attack head on. 'Do the men you interview fancy you? Do they stare at your legs? Do they stare at your breasts? Do you sleep with many of them?' ... Whenever he loomed in sight, I made myself scarce"". Day died from heart complications, aged 76, on the evening of 6 August 2000, at the Wellington Hospital in London. A funeral service was held at the chapel"
"Jill Daley Jill Daley (born 1976/77) is a Scottish broadcaster, model and journalist who lost her sight at the age of 19 to a condition called diabetic retinopathy. She presents ""The Daily Lunch"", a weekday lunchtime show on Glasgow's Insight Radio, a radio station for visually impaired listeners. Daley worked as a blind adviser for director Eleanor Yule and producer Oscar van Heek for the film ""Blinded"". Yule and van Heek intend to make a film about Daley’s life. In November 2014, she appeared in an episode of BBC Radio Scotland's ""Skin Deep"" discussing beauty and body image issues for"
"the media at the time: their cosy domesticity, erratic housekeeping and almost childlike innocence and affection. In the 1950s, Rutherford and Davis unofficially adopted the writer Gordon Langley Hall, then in his 20s. Hall later had gender reassignment surgery and became Dawn Langley Simmons, under which name she wrote a biography of Rutherford in 1983. Rutherford suffered from Alzheimer's disease at the end of her life and was unable to work. Davis cared for his wife at their Buckinghamshire home until her death on 22 May 1972, aged 80. Many of Britain's top actors, including Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph"
"German cabaret singer and actress named Clara Bauerle, who became a spy because she had spent a few years performing in the West Midlands and could speak English with a Birmingham accent. Jakobs said Bauerle was meant to join him after he had made “radio contact,” but then doubted she would now be sent since he was arrested before he could communicate with his team. Bauerle's whereabouts remained unknown for several decades, and it was theorized that she may have died under suspicious circumstances in England. In 2016, it was discovered that Bauerle had died in a Berlin hospital on"
"winning ""The Royle Family"". In August 2006 a poll of 4,000 people was commissioned by UKTV Gold for the best comic one-liner. In second place was a line from ""The Mrs Merton Show"" when she famously asked Debbie McGee, ""So, what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?"" The Mrs Merton Show The Mrs Merton Show was a mock talk show starring Caroline Aherne as the elderly host Mrs Dorothy Merton. Originally portrayed as 'Mrs. Murton' in a pilot for Yorkshire TV which was not picked up, Caroline Aherne retooled the character, making her older, and recorded a second"
"radio program by narrating a misadventure of her innocent, bewildered roommate Irma, a scatterbrained stenographer from Minnesota. The two central characters were in their mid-20s. Irma had her 25th birthday in one episode; she was born on May 5. After the two met in the first episode, they lived together in an apartment rented from their Irish landlady Mrs. O'Reilly (Jane Morgan, Gloria Gordon). Irma's boyfriend Al (John Brown) was a deadbeat, barely on the right side of the law, who had not held a job in years. Only someone like Irma could love Al, whose nickname for Irma was"
"parties; although most of the time they ended up making fools of themselves - on one occasion attempting to interview a non-existent band called ""Atering-Catering-Cat"". Their nemesis—Andy Thomas—""with his frightful show on Radio 1"", is a constant throughout the four programmes, and would always upstage them and do his best to interfere with their plans, such as by stealing their passes for the Leeds music festival. Another constant is Peter Davies (aged 47), an obsessed fan who always manages to cross their paths. The series bears repeated listening, with many subtle lines, but at times can be a little confusing"
"were bilingual in English and Welsh, and David Thomas gave Welsh lessons at home. Thomas's father chose the name Dylan, which could be translated as ""son of the sea"", after Dylan ail Don, a character in ""The Mabinogion"". His middle name, Marlais, was given in honour of his great-uncle, William Thomas, a Unitarian minister and poet whose bardic name was Gwilym Marles. Dylan, pronounced [ˈdəlan] (Dull-an) in Welsh, caused his mother to worry that he might be teased as the ""dull one"". When he broadcast on Welsh BBC, early in his career, he was introduced using this pronunciation. Thomas favoured"
"culture. Filth-obsessed puppets Podge and Rodge frequently reference Doyle in their jokes, and the satirical comedy ""Bull Island"" also featured impersonations of Anne Doyle, including parodied news bulletins in which she would state ""I am Anne Doyle. I am the news"". She also has a long-standing association with Dustin the Turkey. Marking RTÉ's 50th anniversary in 2011, Doyle became the first Wexford person to appear on a postage stamp during her lifetime. Following a 17-year relationship with an electrician which ended in August 1996, Doyle had a much publicised relationship Jim McDaid (former Minister for Tourism, Sport & Recreation). She"
"a Duke. Constance, Lady Crabtree Constance, Lady Crabtree is a comedy character created by the author and broadcaster Paul James in July 1978. Intended only as a single cabaret performance, Lady Crabtree proved to be so popular with audiences in the UK that he has now been performing her on stage, radio and television for almost forty years. The first radio broadcast was as a celebrity panellist on a BBC Radio 2 quiz show ""Funny Peculiar"" (1982) with Gyles Brandreth, Sandra Dickinson, Barry Cryer, Clement Freud, Roger Cook, Magnus Pyke and June Whitfield. Early television appearances included BBC 1's ""Pebble"
"people with sight loss. Jill Daley Jill Daley (born 1976/77) is a Scottish broadcaster, model and journalist who lost her sight at the age of 19 to a condition called diabetic retinopathy. She presents ""The Daily Lunch"", a weekday lunchtime show on Glasgow's Insight Radio, a radio station for visually impaired listeners. Daley worked as a blind adviser for director Eleanor Yule and producer Oscar van Heek for the film ""Blinded"". Yule and van Heek intend to make a film about Daley’s life. In November 2014, she appeared in an episode of BBC Radio Scotland's ""Skin Deep"" discussing beauty and"
"helps the show so he can romance the young star, Marge Minter (Donna Damerel). Myrt, and Marge's boyfriend Eddie Hanley (Eddie Foy, Jr.), step in to save the revue and Marge. Ted Healy, Moe, Larry and Curly are stagehands with hopes to join the show, but mostly deal with the antics of backstage crasher Bonnie. Also carrying over from the radio show was the comic-relief ""pansy"" character Clarence, played by Ray Hedge. ""Myrt and Marge"" was a popular radio serial created by and starring Myrtle Vail and Damerel. The show aired on CBS Radio from 1931 to 1946, and in"