"first wife of Harold Pinter, whom she met while working as a repertory actress; he was then working as an actor under the stage name of David Baron. They married in 1956, and their son, Daniel, was born in 1958. Their marriage began disintegrating in the mid-1960s. From 1962 to 1969, Harold Pinter had a clandestine affair with Joan Bakewell, which inspires Pinter's play ""Betrayal"". In 1975, Pinter began a serious affair with the historian Lady Antonia Fraser, the wife of Sir Hugh Fraser, which he confessed to his wife that March. At first, Merchant took it very well, saying"
"presenters of an early BBC Two programme, ""Late Night Line-Up"" (1965–72 and 2008). Frank Muir dubbed her ""the thinking man's crumpet"" during this period and the moniker stuck, although Bakewell herself dislikes the epithet. In 1968 she took the role of narrator of the BBC TV production of ""Cold Comfort Farm"", a three-part serial, and played a TV interviewer in the 1960s film ""The Touchables"". Bakewell co-presented ""Reports Action"", a Sunday teatime programme which encouraged the public to donate their services to various good causes, for Granada Television during 1976–78. Subsequently, she returned to the BBC, and co-presented a short-lived"
"affair with an American socialite, whom he nicknamed ""Cleopatra"". This relationship was another secret he kept from both his wife and Bakewell. Initially, ""Betrayal"" was thought to be a response to his later affair with historian Antonia Fraser, the wife of Hugh Fraser, and Pinter's ""marital crack-up"". Pinter and Merchant had both met Fraser in 1969, when all three worked together on a National Gallery programme about Mary, Queen of Scots; several years later, on 8–9 January 1975, Pinter and Fraser became romantically involved. That meeting initiated their five-year extramarital love affair. After hiding the relationship from Merchant for two"
"long-running affair, this time with Antonia Fraser, which became a marriage in 1980 after he divorced Merchant. However, Pinter explained to Billington that although he wrote the play while ""otherwise engaged"" with Fraser, the details were based on his relationship with Bakewell. ""The Betrayal"" (1997), episode 8 of the 9th (final) season of the NBC Television series ""Seinfeld"" (Sony Pictures), alludes overtly to Pinter's play and film ""Betrayal"", which appears to have inspired it. Apart from the title, ""The Betrayal"", and the name of one-off character Pinter Ranawat who appears in the episode, the episode is structured and runs in"
"Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ""The Servant"" (1963), ""The Go-Between"" (1971), ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""The Trial"" (1993), and ""Sleuth"" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and"
"daughters, Amanda, Christina and Freya. On 8 June 1990 he married Christabel Rosamund Bagge. He died on 20 November 2015 at the age of 94. Peter Dimmock Peter Harold Dimmock, CVO, CBE (6 December 1920 – 20 November 2015) was a British sports broadcaster and senior television executive during the formative years of the medium in the 1950s. He was the first host of the BBC's long-running ""Grandstand"" and of the ""BBC Sports Personality of the Year"" awards. Born in London, Dimmock attended Dulwich College and a finishing establishment in France. At the outbreak of war he joined the Royal"
"Frank Muir Frank Herbert Muir (5 February 1920 – 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC Radio's ""Take It From Here"" for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes ""My Word!"" and ""My Music"" for another 35. Muir became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC in the 1960s, and was then London Weekend Television's founding Head of Entertainment. His many writing credits include editorship of ""The Oxford Book of Humorous"
"married author Lady Antonia Fraser in 1980. Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of ""The Room"" in 1957. His second play, ""The Birthday Party"", closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. His early works were described by critics as ""comedy of menace"". Later plays such as ""No Man's Land"" (1975) and ""Betrayal"" (1978) became known as ""memory plays"". He appeared as an actor in productions of his own work on radio and film. He also undertook a number of roles in works by other writers. He directed nearly 50 productions for stage,"
"This production was also broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. The National Theatre revived the play in 2008 with Clare Higgins and Simon Russell Beale. A third radio version was broadcast by the BBC in May 2008 with Wilton again as Beth and the author playing Duff. Landscape (play) Landscape is a one-act play by Harold Pinter that was first broadcast on radio in 1968 and first performed on stage in 1969. The play shows the difficulties of communication between two people in a marriage. This is illustrated through the two characters who appear to be talking to one"
"was still married to the actress Vivien Merchant and she was still married to Michael Bakewell. That affair was the basis for Pinter's 1978 play ""Betrayal"", adapted in 1983 as a film. Bakewell currently writes for the British newspaper ""The Independent"" in the 'Editorial and Opinion' section. Typically, her articles concern aspects of social life and culture but sometimes she writes more political articles, often focusing on aspects relevant to life in the United Kingdom. Formerly, from 2003, she wrote the ""Just Seventy"" column for ""The Guardian"" newspaper. In September 2008 she began a fortnightly column in the Times2 section"
"in 2015 that his ex-boyfriends often resented the role they had to play in the public eye as his partner. Graham Norton Graham William Walker (born 4 April 1963), known professionally as Graham Norton, is an Irish television and radio presenter, comedian, actor, and author based in the United Kingdom. He is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show ""The Graham Norton Show"" and an eight-time award winner, overall. Originally shown on BBC Two before moving to other slots on BBC One, it succeeded ""Friday Night with Jonathan Ross"" in BBC One's prestigious late-Friday-evening slot in"
"Lambert and John Humphrys. Petrie has said through Twitter that his girlfriend is French, and that she also appeared in a Comic Relief special starring Kate Moss. He supports Crystal Palace FC. Ed Petrie Edward Oliver James ""Ed"" Petrie (born 22 August 1978) is an English actor, comedian, and television presenter. Petrie was born and raised in Rustington, West Sussex. He was educated at Broadwater Manor in Worthing, West Sussex, and the independent school Ardingly College in Ardingly, West Sussex. Previous presenting work includes hosting various children's programmes, on Nickelodeon, from January 2005 until September 2007, including ""Slime Across the"
"was changed from a circus performer to that of a grey man who ate dinner with his wife in silence, occasionally saying ""nice peas, dear"", while at the same time nursing an unrequited crush on his colleague Virginia Bottomley – an invention, but an ironic one in view of his affair with Edwina Currie, which was not then a matter of public knowledge. By the end of his premiership his puppet would often be shown observing the latest fiasco and ineffectually murmuring ""oh dear"". The media (particularly ""The Guardian"" cartoonist Steve Bell) used the allegation by Alastair Campbell that he"
"Barry Foster as Albert Stokes, Harold Pinter as Seeley, and Vivien Merchant, Pinter's first wife, as the Girl. (Full production details and ""Radio Review"" accessible at www.haroldpinter.org.) Its performance on television a month later, on 24 April 1960, was Pinter's first big success as a playwright in that medium. As presented on ABC Television's ""Armchair Theatre"", it was viewed by 6.4 million households, at that time a record for a single television drama. Some other ABC production details (full cast and credits accessible at BFI Screenonline): A Night Out (play) A Night Out is a play written by Harold Pinter"
"show is syndicated around the world. Short-lived American and Greek adaptations were briefly produced in 2003 and 2007 respectively. In a 2004 poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom, ""Coupling"" came 54th. Moffat had used the breakdown of his first marriage as inspiration for his 1990s sitcom ""Joking Apart"". Retaining this semi-autobiographical trend, ""Coupling"" was based on him meeting his wife, Sue Vertue, and on the issues that arise in new relationships. Moffat met Vertue at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in 1996. Vertue had been working for Tiger Aspect, a production company run by Peter Bennett-Jones. Bennett-Jones and his friend"
"a 1954 symposium on ""the relationship between universities and radio, film, and television"". He also did the groundwork for the university's theatre collection in 1951 (which now has museum status and is a major archive). In 1954 he married Hesel Mudford with whom he had two sons and one daughter. In 1955, he was made the department's head and in 1960 took up its chair of drama, the first such in the UK. He also helped to set up a playwriting fellowship in the department, attracting young playwrights like John Arden, and premiered Harold Pinter's first play, ""The Room"" in"
"on a number of occasions, erroneously claimed to have invented pulled pork. Rimmer is married with two children and lives in Chorlton Cum Hardy. He supports Liverpool F.C. but chose the history of Tranmere Rovers as his specialist subject on the BBC quiz ""Mastermind"". Simon Rimmer Simon Peter Rimmer (born 5 May 1963), is an English cook and restaurateur, best known for his on-screen partnership with Tim Lovejoy, with whom he co-hosted the BBC Two programme ""Something for the Weekend"" from 2006 until 2012. Rimmer and Lovejoy then began co-hosting Channel 4 programme ""Sunday Brunch"" and its spin-off ""Daily Brunch""."
"Harold Pinter; he and Pinter were friends and collaborators for over 60 years. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London and then pursued a postgraduate course in directing at the University of Bristol, before going to the United States, to earn a postgraduate diploma from the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia. While doing his directing course at Bristol, he commissioned and directed Harold Pinter's first play, ""The Room"" (1957), in which he also originated the role of Mr Kidd. In 1978, with his wife, actress/director Susan Williamson, whom he married in 1965,"
"his screenplays; some in which Pinter appears as an actor): ""The Go-Between"", ""Accident"", ""The Birthday Party"", ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", ""Reunion"", ""Mojo"", ""The Servant"", ""The Pumpkin Eater""; and other related programme events: ""Pause for Thought"" (Penelope Wilton and Douglas Hodge in conversation with Michael Billington), ""Ashes to Ashes – A Cricketing Celebration"", a ""Pinter Quiz Night"", ""The New World Order"", the BBC Two documentary film ""Arena: Harold Pinter"" (introd. Anthony Wall, producer of ""Arena""), and ""The New World Order – A Pause for Peace"" (a consideration of ""Pinter's pacifist writing"" [both poems and prose] supported by the Sheffield Quakers), and"
"by three months, and the other is the television critic Paul Hoggart. He is also survived by a daughter, Nicola. In ""The Chatterley Affair"", a 2006 dramatisation of the 1960 trial made for the digital television channel BBC Four, he was played by actor David Tennant. In later life he suffered from dementia. He died on 10 April 2014 at the age of 95. Richard Hoggart Herbert Richard Hoggart FRSL (24 September 1918 – 10 April 2014) was a British academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture. Hoggart"
"broadcast last year was full of body language fibs"", said Peter Collett, a psychologist at the University of Oxford. ""When you are talking to me, I'll give you my full attention only if I think you are very high status or if I love you. On that party political broadcast, they are staring at each other like lovers. It is completely false."" With Samuel Beckett's 100th birthday celebrations, he returned to radio on BBC Radio 3 with ""Eyes Down Looking"" (2006), with: Jude Law, Juliet Stevenson and David Threlfall. An operatic directorial debut came with Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"". Premiered at"
"felt comfortable only with close friends, including his wife, and former ITN News director, Diana Edwards-Jones. Burnet died peacefully in the early hours of 20 July 2012, at his nursing home in Kensington, where he had been living following a series of strokes. Paying tribute, Andrew Neil referred to Burnet as ""Britain's greatest broadcaster"". In his will he left £2 million, the majority of which was bequeathed to his wife. The satirical TV puppet show ""Spitting Image"" portrayed Burnet as a cringing, fawning royalist (""lick, lick, smarm, smarm""), forever trying to suck up to the nearest available member of the"
"""the least cynical of men"". Walter is succeeded by his wife, Pamela May, whom he married in 1970, and had a daughter, Natalie, an actress, and a son, Peter. David Walter (journalist) David Charles Walter (1 February 1948 – 29 March 2012), was a British journalist and a former Political Correspondent for Independent Television News programmes on ITV from 1980–1986, then on ITN's Channel 4 News from 1986–1988, followed by Paris Correspondent for BBC News, a BBC television and radio producer and presenter, and a Liberal Democrat contender for a seat in the British Parliament (Torridge and West Devon, 2005)."
"Theatre and then the Whitehall Theatre in London's West End. The play starred Gerald Harper as Harold and William Gaunt as Riggs as a pair of television crime writers, one of whom wishes to end the partnership. Taylor currently lives in London with his wife Sue. They have a daughter, Imogen. Edward Taylor (scriptwriter) Edward Taylor, (born 1931) is a British dramatist and radio producer best known for the BBC Radio Comedy series ""The Men from the Ministry"". Originally intending to seek a career in acting, Taylor applied to join Cambridge University, appearing in the 1955 Cambridge Footlights revue and"
"popular advertising campaigns of the period in which Muir appeared included Batchelors' Savoury Rice ""(""Every grain will drive them insane!"")"", a coffee advert in which he used the phrase """"impending doom"""", and Unigate milk ""Humphreys"". In the 1960s Muir was Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC and in 1969 joined London Weekend Television as Head of Entertainment. His pets, which prompted many an anecdote on ""My Word!"", included Afghan hounds and Burmese cats. The hounds were also the inspiration for a series of picture books about an accident-prone Afghan puppy called ""What-a-Mess"". In 1976 Muir wrote ""The Frank"
"comedy book about the ups and downs of beekeeping. In March 2018, Turnbull revealed he had been diagnosed the previous November with incurable prostate cancer. Bill Turnbull William Robert Jolyon Turnbull (born 25 January 1956) is an English journalist and presenter, who currently works as a presenter for the radio station Classic FM, following many years as a presenter with the BBC. He was the main male presenter of ""BBC Breakfast"" from 2001 until 2016, and currently presents the religious series ""Songs of Praise"" and game show ""Think Tank"". Turnbull was born in Surrey, South East England, to an English"
"as the Saturday Night Theatre on BBC Radio 4 on 28 February 1959: The play was produced, with the following cast, as the Saturday Play on BBC Radio 4 on 7 October 2006, as part of its Betrayal season: A Man for All Seasons A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, and a one-hour live television version starring Bernard Hepton was produced in 1957 by the BBC, but after Bolt's success with ""The Flowering"
"the line first with Kira Tointon actress. He was happily married for 44 years with three children. His wife died in August 2016. He remarried on 08/02/2018 to Jacky Fantom, a yoga teacher and ex probation officer. They live near Stockport in Cheshire. They have two cats Daisy and Louis. Peter White (broadcaster) Peter White MBE (born 1947, Winchester) is a visually impaired British broadcast journalist and DJ. Blind since birth (as was his elder brother), he attended New College Worcester, which was then known as the Worcester College for the Blind. He was a regular presenter on BBC Radio"
"in ""a Pinter play"", ""fashionable"" at that time (Merritt, ""Pinter in Play"" 217). Yet Pinter told John Barber ten years later, in 1980: ""'This really is an awful business, this fashion. I must tell you I feel I've been unfashionable all my life. I was oldfashioned from the very beginning, and I'm unfashionable now, really.' "" Episode 164 of the very popular American television series ""Seinfeld"", entitled ""The Betrayal"" (originally broadcast 27 November 1997), is structured in reverse somewhat like Pinter's play and film ""Betrayal"". Jerry Seinfeld's comic parodic homage to Harold Pinter, the episode features a character named ""Pinter""."
"the theatre designer Jeremy Herbert. After finishing university in 1965 Palin became a presenter on a comedy pop show called ""Now!"" for the television contractor Television Wales and the West. At the same time Palin was contacted by Jones, who had left university a year earlier, for assistance in writing a theatrical documentary about sex through the ages. Although this project was eventually abandoned, it brought Palin and Jones together as a writing duo and led them to write comedy for various BBC programmes, such as ""The Ken Dodd Show"", ""The Billy Cotton Bandshow"", and ""The Illustrated Weekly Hudd"". They"
"the show alongside Sophie Raworth, Natasha Kaplinsky, Kate Silverton, Sian Williams and Susanna Reid. He was also a regular stand-in on the ""BBC Six O'Clock News"" and ""BBC Ten O'Clock News"" and co-presented the ""BBC News at Six"" on Fridays from September 2003 to summer 2007 alongside Sian Williams. His presenting style was lampooned in the impersonation sketch show ""Dead Ringers"" by Jon Culshaw, his widely spaced legs on the presenting couch mocked with the phrase 'I'm Dermot Murnaghan, watch my crotch follow you round the room'. Whilst at the BBC, he presented BBC One's ""Treasure Hunt"" (2002–2003), a revival"
"sort of intellectual companionship is Harriet Vane. Parker is also on congenial terms with the Dowager Duchess of Denver, owing to her close relationship with her second son. (The most in-depth descriptions of the friendship between Parker and Wimsey are in ""The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club"" in which Sayers describes the two men's interactions with each other.) Several Peter Wimsey stories were made into BBC television series in the 1970s, starring Ian Carmichael. In these, Parker was played by Mark Eden. In the 1980s three more stories (involving Harriet Vane) were made into BBC television serials. This time Wimsey"
"Theatre in November 2010. He made a guest appearance in the BBC radio comedy series ""Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off"" as himself in 2006. Harriott married former costume designer Clare Fellows, the youngest sister of comedian actor Graham Fellows. They have two children. In November 2012, the couple were reported to have separated and they remain on good terms. Harriott is a supporter of Arsenal F.C. Ainsley Harriott Ainsley Harriott (born 28 February 1957) is an English chef, television presenter, and entertainer. He is known for his BBC cooking shows ""Can't Cook, Won't Cook"" and ""Ready Steady Cook"". Harriott was"