• Max Kester
  | birth_place = [[Leeds]], England ...and wrote and edited early radio programmes for the [[BBC radio|BBC]] in Leeds in 1926, as Max Kester. He moved to London by the late 1920s, and worked
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• Barry Cryer
  | birth_place = [[w:Leeds|Leeds]], [[w:West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...r BBC Radio4 Great Lives 11 Jan 2011 b00x95hm.flac|Recorded January 2011]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[w:Great Lives|Great Lives]]''</center>}}
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• Ernie Wise
  ...nd_culture/newsid_8549000/8549145.stm|title=Ernie Wise brought sunshine to Leeds|date=4 March 2010|website=BBC News|access-date=16 October 2021}}</ref> [[W Ernest Wiseman, born in [[Leeds|Leeds]]<ref name="bbcnews"/> to Harry and Connie Wiseman (''[[née|née]]'' Wrigh
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• Barbara (TV series)
  ...vision]], and three series were then televised on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] from 1999 to 2003 by [[Carlton Television]]. It was filmed at [[King's Meadow Ca ...he's had so much plastic surgery that "she literally doesn't know her arse from her elbow") who marries the simpering Phil. Barbara's colleague at the doct
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• Brian Clemens
  ...want to go away again.<ref name="TV Times"/> Instead, he worked his way up from messenger boy at the [[w:J. Walter Thompson|J. Walter Thompson]] [[w:advert ...don''), ''White Hunter'' (ITV, 1958–1960), ''[[w:The Man from Interpol|Man from Interpol]]'' (ITV, 1960–1961), and ''[[w:Richard the Lionheart (TV series
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• Rising Damp
  ...oadcast from 2 September 1974 until 9 May 1978. Chappell adapted the story from his 1973 stage play ''The Banana Box''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leona ...re a studio audience at [[The Leeds Studios]] of Yorkshire Television in [[Leeds, West Yorkshire]] and featured no scenes shot on location.
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• The New Statesman (1987 TV series)
  ...w]] of part of the ''[[Promenade (Pictures at an Exhibition)|Promenade]]'' from ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]'' by Russian composer [[Modest Mussorgsky]] ...ckfires. Some city scenes were not filmed in London, but [[Leeds]], with [[Leeds Town Hall]] used as the High Court.
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• Angela Morley
  | birth_place = [[w:Leeds|Leeds]], [[w:West Riding of Yorkshire]], England Morley was born in [[w:Leeds, Yorkshire|Leeds]]<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.angelamorley.com/site/bio.htm|tit
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• Fanny Cradock
  {{short description|Restaurant critic, television celebrity cook and writer from England}} ...th_so_much_character_/ |title=Bournemouth: a town with so much character! (From Bournemouth Echo) |publisher=Bournemouthecho.co.uk |date=3 November 2010 |a
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• Caroline Aherne
  Aherne narrated the [[Channel 4]] reality television series ''[[Gogglebox]]'' from its inception in 2013 until 8 April 2016. Aherne died of cancer at the age ...bs/broadcasters1.html |archive-date=19 July 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> From the age of two, Aherne was brought up in [[Wythenshawe]], [[Manchester]].<r
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• Porridge (1974 TV series)
  ...tten by [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]], and broadcast on [[BBC1]] from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series and two Christmas specials ...ters of Porridge (TV series)#Lennie Godber|Lennie Godber]], a naïve inmate from [[Birmingham]] serving his first sentence, whom Fletcher takes under his wi
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• Love Thy Neighbour (1972 TV series)
  | caption = Title card from the pilot for ''Love Thy Neighbour'' ...' is a [[British television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] that was broadcast from 13 April 1972 until 22 January 1976. The show spanned eight series, lasted
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• Morecambe and Wise
  ..., England|'''Ernest Wiseman''': {{Birth date|1925|11|27|df=y}}, [[Bramley, Leeds|Bramley]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England}} ...radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. They have been described as "the most
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• The Goon Show series 3
  ...two editions of the show to help Peter out when problems arose with other writers. ...as a home for his new wife June who was then pregnant and on her way back from [[w:Australia|Australia]]. Eventually Max Geldray and vocalist [[Ray Elling
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• Eric Morecambe
  ...d from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. Morecambe took his stage name from his home town, the [[seaside resort|seaside resort]] of [[Morecambe|Morecam ...in Boy|Bevin Boy]] and worked as a coal miner in [[Accrington|Accrington]] from May 1944 onwards.
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• Arnold Ridley
  ...2009|author=Ridley, Nicholas |isbn=978-1-906132-98-9|title=Godfrey's Ghost From Father to Son|publisher=Mogzilla Life}}</ref> ...ivate Godfrey], BBC Radio 4, 2012-07-06.</ref> He was medically discharged from the army with the rank of [[Lance Corporal]] in 1916.<ref>Ridley's WW1 meda
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• Brian Rix
  ...House of Lords]] as a crossbencher in 1992 and was president of [[Mencap]] from 1998 until his death. ...xperience with the White Rose Players at the opera house in [[Harrogate]]. From there he went into the Royal Air Force, eventually ending up as a volunteer
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• Richard Beckinsale
  ...epted on his second attempt, becoming just one of 31 successful applicants from a total of more than 12,500.{{r|Clayton|p=38}} While at RADA, Beckinsale wo ...Following his stint in 1969 playing Hamlet, Beckinsale took a brief hiatus from acting and worked at a bottle factory, before returning to acting soon afte
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• The Goon Show series 1
  From 3.30pm to 4.15pm on Wednesday 26 April 1949, a trial recording of a new BBC ...[[Robert Moreton]], plus [[Doris Nichol]] (a colleague of Jacques Brown’s from Danger – Men at Work!) and [[Bob Bain]]. Peter was Lord Peter, the twenty
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• I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
  ...pt was most recently written by [[Iain Pattinson]], who worked on the show from 1992 until his death in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amandahowardas ...running radio [[sketch show]] ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', the writers of which were [[John Cleese]], [[Jo Kendall]], [[David Hatch]], [[Bill Oddi
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