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"Show, Cast, Characters, etc, and ""The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler"", ""The Phantom Head Shaver"", ""The Affair of the Lone Banana"", ""The Canal"", ""Napoleon's Piano"", ""Foiled by President Fred"", ""The Mighty Wurlitzer"", ""The Hastings Flyer"", ""The House of Teeth"". ""The Battle of Spion Kop"", ""Ned's Atomic Dustbin"", ""The spy; or, Who is Pink Oboe?"", ""Call of the West"", ""The Scarlet Capsule"", ""The Tay Bridge Disaster"", ""The Gold-plate Robbery"", ""The £50 cure"". A recreation of a ""Goon Show"" broadcast before a studio audience is seen early in the HBO Original Movie, ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"" (2004), with Geoffrey Rush"
"In 1963 the ship was permanently moored in Brixham harbour in Devon where it became a tourist attraction. The ship was destroyed in a storm in 1987, after which it was towed to Dartmouth and replaced with the current replica with a gallery included. Historical research was provided by E. Hayter Preston. Beatrice Dawson designed the many period costumes worn in the show. Ian Stuart Black was story editor. The fight scenes were arranged by Peter Diamond, who also appeared in four episodes. The series was originally shown on UK network ATV from 12 November 1961, until 20 May 1962."
"basking shark off the coast of Cornwall, but instead found only otters, seagulls and a dog. After the last of the episodes had been shown Nick Baker appeared on TV Burp and called Hill a 'cheeky git', after throwing a custard pie in Harry's face at the end of a musical number. Baker is a regular contributor to Radio 4's ""The Natural History Programme"" and writes for many publications including the ""BBC Wildlife Magazine, Wildlife Watch,"" RSPB's ""Bird"" and ""Birdlife"" magazines, the ""Young Telegraph,"" the ""Bug Club"" magazine, ""Wild About Animals"" and ""FBX"" magazine. Baker wrote ""Baker's Bug Book"" and"
"of Hull East for almost 40 years before retiring) slipped deliberately into his distinctive East Yorkshire accent – ""'Umber – without the 'H', as we say it up there"". The comedian Marti Caine listed the Shipping Forecast as one of her eight records when she made her second appearance on ""Desert Island Discs"" on 24 March 1991. The BBC Radio 1 That's What He Said Podcast by Greg James featured the shipping forecast being read out by Grace Hopper. This was done to make light of her inability to pronounce certain words. Terence Davies' film ""Distant Voices, Still Lives"", a"
"radio show on BBC Radio Berkshire. The show was promoted on Good Morning Britain on ITV, BBC Radio Newcastle, Metro Radio and in The Newcastle Evening Chronicle Newspaper. In January 2016, Cross broke the fifth metacarpal on his right hand whilst rehearsing a new escapology stunt, which meant he had to learn lots of his tricks one handed to get him through gigs that were booked in whilst his right hand was recovering. He broke it by accidentally hitting it on a marble table in his living room whilst rehearsing a stunt for ""The Greatest Show on the Tyne"". In"
"Through Hell and High Water Through Hell and High Water is a BBC television programme produced by Twofour that aired in the United Kingdom on 1317 February 2006. Five half-hour morning programmes (9:3010am) on BBC1 followed James Cracknell (Olympic rower) and Ben Fogle (television presenter) in their attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in """"Spirit of EDF Energy"""", a 24-foot rowing boat, with a half-hour summary programme during the evening of the final day on BBC2. Cracknell and Fogle were competing in the 20052006 Atlantic Rowing Race. They were the third boat (two fours boats finished ahead of them) and"
"man, always avoiding book launches and publishing parties, and being rarely photographed. In 1982 Leslie Sands played Sergeant Fowler in Wingfield's BBC radio thriller ""Outbreak of Fear"", a murder mystery set in the West Country. In 1987 Bob Peck starred in the Wingfield BBC radio drama ""Deadfall"", about a demolition man whose past catches up with him. The 'winkle' postcard (sent by Inspector Frost) is most probably based on a Donald McGill seaside postcard. After a dispute with the BBC in 1984 he submitted a number of radio plays under the pseudonym ""Arthur Jefferson"", (the real name of Stan Laurel)"
"This increased to 24-hour broadcasting from the start of the Falklands Conflict. Newsreader Penny Guy broadcast news of the first UK warship casualty—the sinking of HMS ""Sheffield"". Listeners were unaware her fiancé Derek was aboard the vessel and she had no idea if he was alive or dead. (He survived and they wed shortly afterwards.) In 1985, the Independent Broadcasting Authority failed to renew the station's licence and it ceased broadcasting on 28 June 1986 at 12 pm, after 10 years and around 257 days on air, despite a local campaign to save it. Fratton Road in Portsmouth was jammed"
"due to this neither Mike or Tim have appeared in the TV version of the show. However, backstage after the live show, Tim won a side bet with Horne that he would place in the top three. In 2017 the new comedy project Tim mentored for BBC Radio Norfolk began broadcasting on BBC Radio Suffolk and in November won support from the Director General Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead FitzHigham holds several world records and has achieved many unusual feats. The first was achieved in 2003, when he paddled a paper boat down 160 miles of the River Thames"
"Campling compared the programme favourably to the famous Naval radio sitcom ""The Navy Lark"" and called ""Deep Trouble"" ""hilarious"". It was also selected as a 'Pick of the Day' by Phil Daoust of the Guardian on 24 May 2007. The series was produced and directed by David Tyler at Pozzitive Television for BBC Radio 4. Deep Trouble (radio comedy series) Deep Trouble is a BBC radio comedy series, written by and starring Jim Field Smith and Ben Willbond, which first aired on BBC Radio 4 in October 2005. It takes place in the year 2012, aboard HMS ""Goliath"", a Royal"
"""Workers' Playtime"". He remains best known for the BBC Radio 2 satirical series ""The News Huddlines"", which ran from 1975 to 2001. His other radio credits include playing Max Quordlepleen, the host at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, in the original radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978), ""Crowned Hudds"" (1994–95), ""The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes"" (1999-2000) and ""Like They've Never Been Gone"" (1999-2002). He has acted in many comedy series and dramas for BBC Radio 4. He appeared on Radio Two for a week in April 2017 choosing the Tracks of"
"and ""Dreaming of Toad Hall"" ""Turn Over Your Papers Now"" and ""The Grand Masquerade"" for Radio 4. After O'Farrell's radio programme ""The Grand Masquerade"" on the Kit Williams 1979 treasure hunt book, the golden hare resurfaced, twenty years after it had disappeared. He appeared in ""Pointless Celebrities"" in 2016 and captained the Exeter Alumni team on ""University Challenge"" in December 2012. Other TV appearances and radio broadcasts, include ""Crime Team"", ""What the Papers Say"", ""The News Quiz"", ""Heresy"", ""Quote Unquote"", ""The Wright Stuff"", ""The Daily Politics"", ""What the Dickens"", ""The 11 O'clock Show"", ""We've Been Here Before"", ""Clive Anderson's Chat"
"way along the south coast. Along the way they crash into a harbour, play their part in the lobster repopulation, drop in at the Sawmills Studio during a Wire Daisies recording session, visit Pendennis Castle in Falmouth and investigate Cornwall's colourful maritime history at various landmarks. First broadcast on Monday 5 January 2009 at 21:00 – 3.22 million viewers village of Newlyn and find themselves on a number of vessels including an Open 60 high-speed yacht and a local fisherman's pilchard boat. As the winds pick up the trio struggle to find a ship capable of carrying them through the"
"Rod Hull Rodney Stephen ""Rod"" Hull (13 August 1935 – 17 March 1999) was an English comedian, best known as a popular entertainer on British television in the 1970s and 1980s. He rarely appeared without Emu, a mute, highly aggressive arm-length puppet modelled on the Australian flightless emu bird. Hull was born in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England in 1935. He attended Delemark Road School and the County Technical School, Sheerness. After national service with the RAF, he qualified as an electrician. He married his first wife Sandra in 1958; they had two daughters, Deborah and Danielle. His first"
"the first time on British television. Wilson joined Sky News in 1993 and, until June 2010, headed the weather department, which broadcast weather forecasts for Europe 24 hours a day. In 1979, Wilson was invited by Ian Anderson to contribute to the Jethro Tull album ""Stormwatch"". He reads the Shipping Forecast on the track ""North Sea Oil"", and the spoken introduction to ""Dun Ringill"". In 1998, Wilson was invited to Morocco by Sir Richard Branson to advise on meteorological conditions for his Virgin Earth Challenge balloon attempt. Wilson has won the title of ""Best Television Weather Presenter - Worldwide"" at"
"broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2004 and 2018. A more recent radio broadcast was in ""The Ape That Got Lucky"" and has appeared in TV shows such as ""Noel's House Party"", ""Press Gang"", ""Chef!"", ""Big Train"", ""Blackadder the Third"" (""Dish and Dishonesty""), Chelmsford 123, ""Jonathan Creek"", ""15 Storeys High"", ""Armstrong and Miller"", and series three of ""Peep Show"". McGivern appeared in the first series of cult comedy show ""Big Train"" in 1998, and later that year for the 1998 radio SciFi drama ""Paradise Lost in Cyberspace"" (Colin Swash, BBC) McGivern teamed up with old Hitchhiker's colleague Stephen Moore and"
"air time in units of 15 minutes. Batchelor's programme usually featured the Deep River Boys, a gospel/barbershop group seemingly performing live. He voiced his own advertisements, inviting listeners to write for details of his ""Famous Infra-Draw Method for the Treble Chance"" that he promised was able to predict the drawn games on which winnings depended. The address was always read as ""Horace Batchelor, Department One, Keynsham, spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M, Keynsham, Bristol"". Batchelor needed to carefully spell Keynsham out loud for his listeners (and prospective clients), as the town's name is pronounced ""CANE-sham"", and its spelling is not obvious from the way"
"smiling. Hunter was nominated for the Perrier Award in the 2002, 2003 and 2004 Edinburgh Festivals. He won the Writers' Guild Award for Comedy in 2006 for his show ""Pride & Prejudice... & Niggas."" Hunter made his TV debut on Channel 4's ""The 11 O'Clock Show"" in 1998. TV subsequent credits include: Hunter is one of the hosts of the ""E4 Laughs at Edinburgh"" podcast, showcasing the best comedy talent from the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has had numerous appearances on the BBC Radio 4 comedy show ""The Unbelievable Truth"". He also appeared on ""Midweek"" (BBC Radio 4) on"
"perform his hit cover of Marshall Crenshaw's ""My Favourite Waste of Time"". He was to mime to a backing track but could not hear the foldback loudspeaker as it had failed, so was seen standing looking into camera while the music played and his recorded voice was heard. Pebble Mill at One Pebble Mill at One was a British television magazine programme that was broadcast live weekdays at one o'clock on BBC1, from 2 October 1972 to 23 May 1986 and again from 20 October 1991 to 25 May 1996. It was transmitted from the Pebble Mill studios of BBC"
"boarding school in Snaresbrook, East London, later studying electrical engineering at Carshalton College, Carshalton, Surrey. One of his early television roles was presenting ""Beecholme Kids"" (Thames TV), a programme on how children who were raised in orphanages and 'care homes', fared after they had left the institutions. Ironically, a BBC- Man Alive documentary, 'Gale Is Dead', featuring an ex-Beecholme child, Gale Parsons, addressed the same subject in 1970, some 15 years earlier. He has been a print and radio journalist; (BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4 and British Forces Broadcasting Service/SSVC), reported for and presented many television programmes; health, ""The"
"and later conceded that this was ""incredibly stupid, even by my standards"". From 1999, Mayall was the voice of the black-headed seagull Kehaar, in the first and second series of the animated television programme, ""Watership Down"". In the late 1990s Mayall was featured in a number of adverts for Virgin Trains. In 1998, Mayall was involved in a serious quad bike accident. (For details see below.) The pair wrote the first draft of their feature film ""Guest House Paradiso"" while Mayall was still hospitalised. They planned to co-direct, but Edmondson took on the duties himself. Mayall returned to work doing"
"The Sea Hound The Sea Hound is an American radio adventure series that ran from June 29, 1942, to August 7, 1951. It began on the Blue Network June 29, 1942 – September 22, 1944, as a 15-minute serial for young audiences, featuring Ken Daigneau as Captain Silver of the ship ""The Sea Hound"". In 1946–47 it aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System. The program expanded to 30 minutes on ABC radio June 21–September 2, 1948, alternating with ""Sky King"". It last aired June 26–August 7, 1951, on ABC. Between 1942 and 1944, ""The Sea Hound"" was produced with Nelson"
"from Manchester"", ""King of the Road"", ""Run the Gauntlet"" and ""Quiz Night"", and for five years he hosted the BBC's live daily chat show ""Pebble Mill"". His years on ""Pebble Mill"" involved him filming in Europe, America, the Caribbean and South Africa, hosting TV specials from the Oscars and the Cannes Film Festival. On radio, King became Britain's youngest daytime host on Scotland's Radio Clyde winning many awards in the process, the highlight being a prestigious Sony Award. He has hosted thousands of radio shows, including London's Capital Radio, and the Euro Chart for the UK. On BBC's National Radio"
"BBC Television – on the ""Tonight"" programme, on the ""White Heather Club"", and as the hosts of the seminal London Folk Song Cellar. (During this period Hall's wearing of a CND badge on television caused some controversy.) Both Hall and Macgregor also played as part of the Galliards with Leon Rosselson and Shirley Bland during the 1960s. Overall, Hall and Macgregor made over 20 albums during their partnership, which ended in 1981. One of their most successful singles was the anthem ""Football Crazy"", released in 1960 on Decca Records. Hall went on to make radio programmes for Radio Clyde. His"
"first broadcast on BBC Radio 2, at 1.30pm on 13 November 1983 and ran for 13 episodes. It was subsequently repeated again on BBC Radio 2, but an apparent mix-up between different BBC departments resulted in most of the original masters being wiped. The series featured some of John Le Mesurier's last performances and many listeners were shocked to discover that the BBC was still wiping material as late as the 1980s. The BBC's Treasure Hunt has unearthed off-air recordings of a great many shows that would otherwise have been lost, including ""It Sticks Out Half a Mile"", and the"
"TV weather presenters of the day including Michael Fish, Bernard Davey, Bill Giles, Ian McCaskill and Wincey Willis. The single reached number 21 in the UK Singles Chart The song included the chorus: John Kettley from 3 October 1996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43RGQecEZKg John Kettley John Graham Kettley (born 11 July 1952 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) is an English freelance weatherman. Brought up on ""Commercial Street"" and educated at Todmorden Grammar School (now called Todmorden High School) on ""Ferney Lee Road"" in Todmorden, he played cricket for Burnley and Todmorden. A geography teacher at his school sparked his interest in weather forecasting. He"
"distributed. Episodes of ""The Sea Hound"" include the following: The show spawned a short-lived comic book, and the 1947 Columbia Pictures serial, ""The Sea Hound"", starring Buster Crabbe. The Sea Hound The Sea Hound is an American radio adventure series that ran from June 29, 1942, to August 7, 1951. It began on the Blue Network June 29, 1942 – September 22, 1944, as a 15-minute serial for young audiences, featuring Ken Daigneau as Captain Silver of the ship ""The Sea Hound"". In 1946–47 it aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System. The program expanded to 30 minutes on ABC radio"
"studied horticulture at Writtle College in Essex, earning a diploma in 1956. During his national service, the British Army paid for him to train to be a florist. He then became a director of Cramphorn, a seed and garden company, and then for Bord na Mona as a technical representative, before becoming a consultant and director of two garden centre companies. His broadcasting career began in 1965 on radio, with the BBC Home Service; he appeared on ""In Your Garden"" and ""Gardeners' Question Time"". On BBC television, beginning in 1975, he presented programmes including ""Gardeners' World"", ""Pebble Mill at One"""
"music teacher at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School (where David Baddiel was a pupil) who left the school in the mid-1980s following allegations concerning indecent approaches to the boys. Clulow was subsequently convicted and imprisoned on charges of indecent assault and one count of causing a child to engage in sexual activity. A television pilot aired on BBC2 shortly before the fourth and final radio series, on 3 October 1990. The first series started on 3 January 1991 and ran for six episodes, with a second set of six episodes in 1992. The television series was a mix of observational comedy"
"episodes have been shown on satellite channel UK Gold since spring 1993. Every episode was at least 10 minutes. Narration was by Robin Parkinson. Puppeteers included Ian Allen, John Thirtle, Francis Wright, Alistair Fullarton, Sue Dacre, Chris Leith, Judith Bucklow, Ian Brown, Tony Holthamand, and others. The incidental music for the series was written by Peter Goslin. The show's theme tune was composed and performed by Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson, who were married at the time. A live stage show toured England in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The creator of the show successfully sued the manufacturer"
"threaten the existence of the sea. ""Ocean World"" tells the story of a female humpback whale as she journeys to her northern feeding grounds. We are with her at the birth to her first calf, and along her journey we meet other creatures of the deep who have their own problems to contend with. Ocean World premiered at the Royal Festival Hall by the choir and musicians of St Augustine's RC High School and was narrated by Sir David Attenborough. A television version, currently available from WWF-UK, was made and transmitted in 1991 as part of Channel 4's ""Fragile Earth"""
"New York Harbor in 1978, and would become one of the first to be aired on MTV when it launched on 1 August 1981. As the British task-force sailed out of Portsmouth Harbour on 5 April 1982 – the third day of the Falklands War – the recording of Rod Stewart's ""Sailing"" was broadcast from the quay's public address system. In 1987 Rod Stewart's ""Sailing"" was reissued as a charity single after the ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" disaster off the Flemish port of Zeebrugge, becoming a moderate hit in Belgium's Flemish Region (#24) and also the British Isles (#41 UK/"
"The Beastly Hun The Beastly Hun is the third episode of the fourth series of the period drama ""Upstairs, Downstairs"". It first aired on 28 September 1974 on ITV. It is May 1915, and Hudson is reading out reports about German spies and horrific to the other servants. Later, while helping Rose, Daisy and Mrs Bridges pack some items for the Front, Hazel finds a magazine belonging to Hudson called ""The Beastly Hun"". Hazel is disgusted by what she reads, and orders Hudson to stop spreading these ""stories"" and he is forced to give in, but clearly his views have"