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Post by ARENA on Dec 2, 2016 9:23:03 GMT
Susan Stranks (born 2 December 1938) is a British actress, television presenter and producer. Born in London, Stranks was ten years old when she played the role of the younger Emmeline Foster in the 1949 romantic adventure film The Blue Lagoon. In 1959, Stranks played a small part as a schoolgirl in the train scenes of The 39 Steps starring Kenneth More.  |
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Post by anybody on Dec 2, 2016 10:02:20 GMT
Forgot all about Susan and I used to have a crush on her.
I am getting old.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 3, 2016 11:29:20 GMT
James Arthur Thomas Jewel. Marsh, known as Jimmy Jewel, (4 December 1909 – 3 December 1995) was a British television and film actor. The son of a comedian and actor who also used the stage name Jimmy Jewel, the youngster made his stage debut in Robinson Crusoe in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, at the age of four, performed with his father from the age of 10 and subsequently became stage manager..........  Remember them in your 'Radio Fun'? |
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Post by aubrey on Dec 3, 2016 12:00:55 GMT
I remember them in my Uncle Anthony's collection of Radio Fun annuals, yes.  There's a Viz artist who does a lovely parody of the Radio Fun style - pointed toes, baggy trousers, the lot. |
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Post by ARENA on Dec 4, 2016 9:56:40 GMT
 Ronald Balfour "Ronnie" Corbett, CBE (born 4 December 1930) is a Scottish actor and comedian who had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the television comedy series The Two Ronnies. He achieved prominence in Sir David Frost's 1960s satirical comedy programme, The Frost Report and later starred in the sitcoms Sorry! and No - That's Me Over Here! Corbett was born in Edinburgh in 1930............. Our late,dear friend. |
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Post by ARENA on Dec 5, 2016 9:19:32 GMT
Today we remember Michael Edwards (born 5 December 1963), better known as Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, is a British skier who was the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping. At the time, Edwards was the British ski jumping record holder, the world number nine in amateur speed skiing (106.8 mph) and the stunt jumping world record holder (10 cars/6 buses). Edwards was born in Cheltenham, Eng.  |
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Post by ARENA on Dec 6, 2016 10:45:40 GMT
Peter Harold Dimmock CBE, CVO (born 6 December 1920) is a pioneering former sports broadcaster and senior executive of British television during its formative years in the 1950s. He was the first host of the BBC's long-running Grandstand and also the first host of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards. Dimmock attended Dulwich College.  |
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Post by ARENA on Dec 7, 2016 9:36:19 GMT
7.12.43....Susan Johnston OBE (née Wright, born 7 December 1943) is an English actress known for playing Sheila Grant in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1982–1990), Barbara Royle in the BBC comedy The Royle Family (1998–2012), Grace Foley in the BBC drama Waking the Dead (2000–2011), Gloria Price in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2012–2014) and Miss Denker in the ITV drama Downton Abbey (2014–2015). She won the 2000 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actress and was nominated for the 2000 BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Performance for The Royle Family.  One of my favourites. |
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Post by aubrey on Dec 8, 2016 8:26:35 GMT
Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 BBC poll Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.  |
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Post by ARENA on Dec 8, 2016 8:36:36 GMT
Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is a virtuoso flute player from Belfast, Northern Ireland, nicknamed "The Man With the Golden Flute". Following in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Rampal, he became one of the first flute players to establish an international career as a soloist. Galway went to London as a teenager to study the flute. He studied at the Royal College of Music.  |
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Post by aubrey on Dec 8, 2016 9:02:01 GMT
James Galway is perhaps best known for tying the Wagner Tuba players' instruments to their chairs while they went out for a drink during a slack 15 minutes or so (depending on the conductor) in performances of parts of The Ring Cycle.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 15:02:03 GMT
Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 BBC poll Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time. One that brought so much joy to my daughters when they were small. One had a stuffed Bagpuss on her bed that went everywhere with her. |
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Post by aubrey on Dec 8, 2016 15:38:42 GMT
I still enjoy it (no children or grandchildren as an excuse either).
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Post by ARENA on Dec 8, 2016 15:56:28 GMT
Makes mental note: Board members prefer Bagpuss updates to human ones..............
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Post by aubrey on Dec 8, 2016 16:30:21 GMT
Well, durr.  Maybe Hartley Hare even more. Being naughty: |
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