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Post by aubrey on Jul 10, 2017 17:47:02 GMT
Terry Thomas "I say..." (an outmoded phrase😄) Monty Don gets on my wick. Not Nigel as well? |
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Post by ARENA on Jul 11, 2017 6:30:02 GMT
Patrick Wymark (11 July 1926 – 20 October 1970) was a British, stage, film, and television actor. Born Patrick Carl Cheeseman in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England. He was brought up in neighbouring Grimsby and frequently re-visited the area during the height of his career. He attended University College, London, before training at the Old Vic Theatre School and making his first stage appearance.  |
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Post by ARENA on Jul 12, 2017 5:52:22 GMT
Frank Windsor (born Frank W. Higgins 12 July 1927, Walsall, Staffordshire) is an English actor, mainly on television. He attended Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall. He began his career on radio and made an appearance in a 1953 film of Henry V . His first TV appearances were in 1960 in a series of Shakespearean plays. His most famous role was as Detective Sergeant John Watt in Z-Cars from 1962  |
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Post by aubrey on Jul 12, 2017 7:34:44 GMT
Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian, comedy writer, podcaster and diarist whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring. He is described by The British Theatre Guide as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy". Immediately after the double act, Herring worked primarily as a writer, producing three plays and co-writing the sitcom Time Gentlemen Please, but in the early 2000s returned to performance with concept-driven one-person shows like Talking Cock, Hitler Moustache and Christ on a Bike as well as regular circuit stand-up. Herring has created thirteen of these stand-up shows since 2004, performing them for eleven consecutive years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with annual tours and a final performance recorded for DVD. His 2016–17 show is a 'best of' tour, drawing from these shows. He is recognised as a pioneer of comedy podcasting, initially with broadcaster Andrew Collins on The Collings and Herrin Podcast and more recently with high-profile comedians such as Simon Pegg, Russell Brand and Stephen Fry on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. He has maintained a daily blog called Warming Up without a break since 25 November 2002. His blog is archived by the British Library for purposes of UK documentary heritage.  RHLSTP (Really good podcast of interviews with (mostly) comedians: 137 of them). AIOTM (Also really good podcast of sketch show.) TMWRNJ, Sunday morning magazine spoof from 1998 (these are great): |
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Post by ARENA on Jul 13, 2017 7:24:00 GMT
Sir Alec Rose (13 July 1908 – 11 January 1991) was a nursery owner and fruit merchant in England who after serving in the Royal Navy during World War II developed a passion for amateur single-handed sailing. He took part in the second single-handed Atlantic race in 1964 and circumnavigated the globe single-handedly in 1967-68, for which he was knighted. His boat Lively Lady is still seaworthy and is used for sail training by a charity.  |
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Post by anybody on Jul 13, 2017 8:22:27 GMT
Frank Windsor (born Frank W. Higgins 12 July 1927, Walsall, Staffordshire) is an English actor, mainly on television. He attended Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall. He began his career on radio and made an appearance in a 1953 film of Henry V . His first TV appearances were in 1960 in a series of Shakespearean plays. His most famous role was as Detective Sergeant John Watt in Z-Cars from 1962 How many can you put a name to? I got Norman Bowler Save |
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Post by aubrey on Jul 13, 2017 8:54:53 GMT
John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. He was also an advocate of England's imperial expansion into a "British Empire", a term he is generally credited with coining. Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as they were becoming distinguishable. One of the most learned men of his age, he had been invited to lecture on the geometry of Euclid at the University of Paris while still in his early twenties. Dee was an ardent promoter of mathematics and a respected astronomer, as well as a leading expert in navigation, having trained many of those who would conduct England's voyages of discovery.  |
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Post by ARENA on Jul 14, 2017 7:24:33 GMT
Susan Howatch (born 14 July 1940) is an English author. Her writing career has been distinguished by family saga-type novels which describe the lives of related characters for long periods of time. Her later books have also become known for their religious and philosophical themes. Born Susan Elizabeth Sturt in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, she was the daughter of a stockbroker, and went to school at Sutton High School.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 7:54:51 GMT
Frank Windsor (born Frank W. Higgins 12 July 1927, Walsall, Staffordshire) is an English actor, mainly on television. He attended Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall. He began his career on radio and made an appearance in a 1953 film of Henry V . His first TV appearances were in 1960 in a series of Shakespearean plays. His most famous role was as Detective Sergeant John Watt in Z-Cars from 1962 How many can you put a name to? I got Norman Bowler SaveIs the dog EastEnders Wellard? |
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Post by aubrey on Jul 14, 2017 8:37:27 GMT
Leon Garfield (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television. The first book I ever bought (along with Kes):  It still reads well, or it did 10-15 years ago. I'll give it another go soon. |
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Post by ARENA on Jul 15, 2017 7:07:06 GMT
Julian Bream, CBE (born 15 July 1933), is an English classical guitarist and lutenist and is one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century. He has also been successful in renewing popular interest in the Renaissance lute. Bream was born in London and brought up in a musical environment. His father played jazz guitar.  |
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Post by marispiper on Jul 15, 2017 13:14:14 GMT
One: I will read that book by Leon Garfield
Two: I have several CDs/vinyl of Julian Bream 😄😄
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Post by marispiper on Jul 15, 2017 17:00:53 GMT
I went to two libraries to try and get Smith. Have bought it instead 😊
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Post by ARENA on Jul 16, 2017 6:55:14 GMT
Jane Hylton (16 July 1927 – 28 February 1979) born as Audrey Gwendolene Clark, was an English actress who accumulated 30 film credits, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, before moving into television work in the latter half of her career in the 1960s and 1970s. Talent-spotted in her teens, Hylton was a product of the Rank Organisation's Company of Youth.  |
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Post by ARENA on Jul 17, 2017 6:46:42 GMT
Spencer David Nelson Davies (born 17 July 1939) is a British musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group. Davis dropped the E in Davies and became Davis because in England and in the US his last name was pronounced "Daveys" and not Davis as in the Welsh pronunciation. Davis was born in Swansea, in south Wales.
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