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Post by aubrey on Jan 21, 2017 8:59:56 GMT
Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is a writer, food journalist, essayist and film-maker. Meades has written and performed in more than 50 television shows on predominantly topographical subjects. His books include three works of fiction and several anthologies. Meades is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a Patron of the British Humanist Association.  I know someone who wrote a book with him, years ago. They never met. |
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Post by ARENA on Jan 21, 2017 9:24:20 GMT
 Kathleen "Lally" Bowers (21 January 1917 – 18 July 1984) was an English actress. Bowers was born in Oldham, Lancashire, where she was educated at Hulme Grammar School. She worked as a secretary before walking-on and understudying at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. As a professional actress Bowers appeared in hundreds of stage productions, films and television programmes and rep at Manchester, Sheffield, Southport, Guildford, Liverpool, Birmingham and the Bristol Old Vic. Her London debut came in 1944 and her many West End successes included Dinner With the Family for which she won a Clarence Derwent award in 1957, Difference of Opinion, The Killing of Sister George, Dear Octopus and The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B. She appeared in the sitcoms You're Only Young Twice, Going Straight, Hi-De-Hi, My Name is Harry Worth and A Fine Romance, and her film career included roles in We Joined the Navy (1962), Tamahine (1963), The Chalk Garden (1964), I Start Counting (1970), All the Way Up (1970), Up Pompeii (1971), Our Miss Fred (1972), Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), The Slipper and the Rose (1976) and Screamtime (1983). She also appeared in the 1982 adaptation of Agatha Christie's "The Case of The Discontented Soldier" in the role of Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, in the television series The Agatha Christie Hour. |
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Post by goldelox on Jan 21, 2017 10:32:22 GMT
Lally Bowers was so nice and funny.
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Post by aubrey on Jan 22, 2017 10:04:13 GMT
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard’s suicide and the circumstances surrounding it have led to speculation about his mental health. His mother had been ill with tuberculosis his entire life, and upon learning she had entered a coma from which she was not expected to wake, he walked out to his car and shot himself in the head.  There is a film about him that is very worth seeing, even if you have no real interest in 20s and 30s US pulps:  (A pet hate of mine; they have the names the wrong way about on that poster.) |
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Post by ARENA on Jan 22, 2017 10:26:48 GMT
Lord Byron He was the son of Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and his second wife, the former Catherine Gordon (d. 1811), a descendant of Cardinal Beaton and heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Byron's father had previously seduced the married Marchioness of Carmarthen and, after she divorced her husband, he married her. His treatment of her was described as "brutal and vicious", and she died after having given birth to two daughters, only one of whom survived: Byron's half-sister, Augusta. In order to claim his second wife's estate in Scotland, Byron's father took the additional surname "Gordon", becoming "John Byron Gordon", and he was occasionally styled "John Byron Gordon of Gight". Byron himself used this surname for a time and was registered at school in Aberdeen as "George Byron Gordon". At the age of 10, he inherited the English Barony of Byron of Rochdale, becoming "Lord Byron", and eventually dropped the double surname.  Many famous British birthday's today.Check them out. |
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Post by ARENA on Jan 23, 2017 10:04:35 GMT
Hardeep Singh Kohli (born 23 January 1969) is a British writer and radio and television presenter. Kohli was born in London and moved to Glasgow in Scotland when he was four. His parents came to the UK from India in the 1960s. The family's roots lie in the Punjab. His mother was a social worker, and his father a teacher, then a property landlord.  |
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Post by rondetto on Jan 23, 2017 17:31:48 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Jan 24, 2017 8:47:52 GMT
Bamber Gascoigne, FRSL (born 24 January 1935) is a British television presenter and author, best known for being the original quizmaster on University Challenge. Gascoigne was born in London and won scholarships to both Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1955), where he read English literature.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 24, 2017 9:29:37 GMT
Gussie. Died 7 years ago today, aged 9.   |
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Post by hild1066 on Jan 24, 2017 13:01:49 GMT
Gussie. Died 7 years ago today, aged 9. Gussie looks like a good life was had! What lovely photos! |
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Post by hild1066 on Jan 24, 2017 13:02:47 GMT
You should only tell us this once! What laughs he gave us. Just watching repeats on the History Channel the other day - pure farce! |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 24, 2017 16:59:48 GMT
From, I think the Daily Mail, via the Fall forum:
(After being outed on the front page of the Daily Mirror):
Rather like John Gielgud, that first bit.
And Geoffrey Dickens, not understanding the concept of acting.
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Post by ARENA on Jan 25, 2017 8:53:47 GMT
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide.  |
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Post by rondetto on Jan 25, 2017 21:33:00 GMT
Mary Tyler Moore has dies today at the age of 80. You may remember her from The Dick Van Dyke show. Had her problems over the years but fondly remembered. R.I.P Mary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tyler_Moore |
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Post by ARENA on Jan 26, 2017 8:26:34 GMT
Jacqueline Mary du Pré OBE (26 January 1945 – 19 October 1987) was a British cellist. She is particularly associated with Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor; her interpretation has been described as "definitive" and "legendary." Her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, which forced her to stop performing at 28 and led to her premature death.  |
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