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  • {{Infobox radio show | name = Welsh Rarebit
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  • ...try=GBR|MBE}} (30 July 1925 – 26 November 2013) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[comedian|comedian]], [[actor|actor]] and [[jazz|jazz]] [[musician|music ...sident comedian on variety radio show, ''[[Welsh Rarebit (radio programme)|Welsh Rarebit]]'', and he gained further success as one of the regular comedy gue
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  • {{Infobox radio show | format = Comedy radio
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  • ...ng musical interludes on the [[w:BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] [[w:comedy|comedy]] programmes ''[[Beyond Our Ken]]'' and ''[[Round the Horne]]''. ...to prove successful. In June 1950, they appeared on the [[w:BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] show ''Variety Fanfare'', and were given positive comments by the critics
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  • {{Infobox radio show ...ice: North]]|[[BBC Light Programme|BBC Light Programme]]|[[BBC Radio 2|BBC Radio 2]]}}
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  • {{Infobox radio show Plays, with titles beginning with 'A', 'B' and 'C' on the radio comedy programme "''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]''"
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  • ...re]], [[Middlesex]], on 2 July 1931, to William Williams, a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]], and wife Alice (née Myl ...ter the show that made him famous|url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1459031/Dads-Army-Frank-Williams-comedy-vicar-captain-mainwaring-corporal-j
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  • | nationality = [[Welsh People|Welsh]] | television = ''[[The Goon Show]]'' (Radio)<br />The Harry Secombe Show, Secombe And Friends, [[Highway (TV series)|Hi
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  • ...ith the Robert Stigwood Organisation as executive vice-president producing programmes for American television.<ref name="Guardian obit"/> ...tion to Broadcasting]] at the [[Broadcasting Press Guild#Awards|BPG TV and Radio Awards]].<ref name="BBC News Obituary 2022">{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=
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  • ...ss-date=30 June 2014}}</ref> as well as being a regular panellist on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s comedy panel show ''[[Just a Minute]]'' from its second series in 196 Williams stated in his diaries that he believed he was of [[Welsh people|Welsh]] extraction because of his parents' surnames (Williams was later proven co
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  • ...se to international prominence when his career moved into television, with programmes for [[London Weekend Television]] and [[Thames Television]]. ...affected his career and his health, effectively ending offers to front new programmes and relegating him to performing as a guest star on other entertainment sho
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  • ...yfanwy-talog-6175249|title=Sir David Jason opens up on tragic romance with Welsh actress|first1=Sion|last1=Morgan|date=13 October 2013|website=WalesOnline}} ...illingsgate Fish Market|Billingsgate Fish Market]], and his [[Welsh people|Welsh]] mother, Olwen Jones, was from [[Merthyr Tydfil|Merthyr Tydfil]], [[Glamor
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  • {{Infobox radio show ...<br />[[BBC Light Programme]]<br />{{small|(series 2&ndash;5)}}<br />[[BBC Radio 2]] {{small|(series 6&ndash;9)}}
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  • ...fe of Brian director dies, aged 77|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> was a Welsh comedian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the [[Monty Pyth ...ichael Palin]] wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes, including ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]'' and ''[[The Frost Report]]'', bef
    56 KB (7,720 words) - 19:07, 4 September 2024
  • ...pist instead. She worked as a [[BBC]] secretary for two years, assigned to programmes including ''[[Dick Barton]]'' before eventually moving into [[repertory]] i | Welsh Woman
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  • ...don, the only child of publisher John Atherton Rushton (1908-1958) and his Welsh wife Veronica (née James, 1910-1977). He was educated at [[Shrewsbury Scho ==Films, television and radio==
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  • ...oduce shows such as ''[[Taxi! (British TV series)|Taxi!]]'', ''[[Hi Gang! (radio series)|Hi Gang!]]'', ''[[Can You Beat It?]]'' and ''[[Oliver’s Twists]]' ...st of his staff who resided near Lower Sagging. The cast comprised some of radio’s newest talent who had been experimenting with a new form of ‘goon’
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  • ...er [[Jimmy James (comedian)|Jimmy James]]. Meanwhile Harry featured on BBC radio shows such as ''[[Seaside Variety]]'', ''Force All Star Bill'' and ''[[Summ ...“Crystal-Set Observer”. I forget which,''’ Spike told the [[w:Radio Times|Radio Times]] as he and Larry described the creation of ''The Goon Show'' in the
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  • ...ate 1951, producer [[Dennis Main Wilson]] was planning the new run of Goon programmes featuring [[Harry Secombe]], [[Peter Sellers]], [[Michael Bentine]] and [[S ...alked into the project, feeling it was impractical at the same time as the radio show and was dubious about the availability of Harry who was still in the p
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  • ...years |author=Ian Burrell |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc1-to-revive-comedy-playhouse-after-40-years-in-bid-to-reduce-risk-on-new ...ite|black-and-white]], with the rest being in colour. Like many television programmes from the time, many of 1960s & 1970s episodes are [[w:Wiping|lost]]. As a r
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