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...ama was still unfair and inaccurate. DVDs of the drama have been withdrawn from sale, and there will be no future broadcasts without further editing. ...ting]], and his first marriage to comic actress [[Sheila Steafel]] suffers from his womanising, while Brambell's drinking and his relaxed approach to actin

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...everything so cold and grey." After moving to Brockley, south east London from the age of 12 in 1931, he attended Brownhill Road School (later to be renam ...ts of what would later become ''The Goon Show'' (originally called ''Crazy People'') with [[Peter Sellers]], [[Harry Secombe]] and [[Michael Bentine]].

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| birth_name = Kenneth Charles Williams<!-- only use if different from name --> ...lar panellist on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s comedy panel show ''[[Just a Minute]]'' from its second series in 1968 until his death 20 years later.

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...un, the cast were reluctant. And in mid-January, Spike was again suffering from anxiety neurosis and barely well enough to record the twelfth show, ''[[The ...of the country, Peter had a film commitment and Spike was still recovering from illness.