• BBC Sound Archive
  ...date back to the late 19th century and include many rare items, including contemporary speeches by public and political figures, [[w:folk music|folk music]], Brit ...p://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6968321.stm |title= Saving the sounds of history |access-date=2010-02-15 | date=2007-08-30 | work=BBC News}}</ref> However,
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• The Bobo
  ...illion<ref name="money">Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p. 360</ref> ...lume=34 |issue=396 |pages=138 |via=ProQuest}}</ref></blockquote>In another contemporary review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', critic [[Bosley Crowther]] wrote: "[
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• Edmund Blackadder
  ...kinson]]. Although each series is set within a different period of British history, each character is part of the same familial [[dynasty]] and is usually cal ...over each series, with the character mostly falling in social rank through history. He moves from a prince (''[[The Black Adder]]'') to a lord (''[[Blackadder
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• Frank Randle
  .../www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f230a15|title=Frank Randle}}</ref> A contemporary of fellow [[w:Lancashire|Lancastrians]] [[w:George Formby, Jr.|George Formb ...|title=Wired to the Moon: Frank Randle&nbsp;- A Life |year=2006 |publisher=History on Your Doorstep |isbn=978-0-9518012-5-3}}
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• Babes in the Wood (TV series)
  The show faced high expectations on its launch, due to the contemporary lack of good-quality mainstream British comedy and ITV's desire for a big h ...age named ''Babes in the Wood'' as one of the worst shows in the network's history. He described ''Babes in the Wood'' "a show where some babes live in St Joh
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• Heavens Above!
  ...ho's Afraid of Doctor Syntax? Author(s): Francesca Orestano Source: Garden History, Vol.31, No.2 (Winter, 2003), pp. 163–179</ref> Like other Boulting films, ''Heavens Above!'' satirises contemporary [[Economic materialism|materialistic]] attitudes and cautiously espouses a
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• Nearest and Dearest
  ==Series premise and history== ...of [[Manchester]]. Eli was played by [[Jimmy Jewel]], a [[Yorkshire]]-born contemporary of Baker; he had made his name with [[Ben Warriss]] in the [[music hall]] (
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• The Ghost Goes West
  ...nd [[Geoffrey Kerr]], though Clair and [[Lajos Biro]] have been alleged by contemporary sources to have done uncredited writing on the screenplay.<ref>{{Cite web|t ...in during the 1930s'' by John Sedgwick and Michael Pokorny, ''The Economic History Review'' New Series, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Feb., 2005), pp. 97</ref> The film was
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• The Black Adder (Blackadder)
  | alt2 = Contemporary portrait of Elizabeth I ...)|Gertrude of Flanders]], during a [[alternate history|rewritten period of history]].<ref name="marshall"/> The character of Queen Elizabeth I was later revis
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• Confessions of a Window Cleaner
  ...Pictures]], a fact telling for its period. The condition of the [[Economic history of the United Kingdom#1960–1979: the Sixties and Seventies|economy of the ...ed for stealing the lead off a church roof. In the films Timmy has no such history, probably in an effort to make him more sympathetic to the audience. Produc
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• Graham Crowden
  ...son).<ref name=":1">Who's Who In The Theatre: a biographical record of the contemporary stage, seventeenth edition, vol. I, ed. Ian Herbert, Gale Research Company, ...]] novel, ''[[The Final Programme]]'' (1973). He also played the eccentric history master in Anderson's ''[[if....]]'' (1968). In 1970, he appeared in the pop
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• Shelley (TV series)
  ...ant and rather detached from the realities of the company he runs and from contemporary life. The character in many ways mirrors the character of 'CJ' played by B ...ril 1980, {{small|originally scheduled for 16 August 1979 but delayed by [[History of ITV#1979 dispute|strike action]]}})
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• Help! (film)
  ...le.com/books?id=HESlHkg_pRoC&pg=PA54 |title=John Lennon Imagined: Cultural History of a Rock Star |page=54 |isbn=0-8204-6788-X |year=2004 |last=Mäkelä |firs ...ufficient to carry a film.<ref name="Robertson/MojoSpecial p 17" /> In his contemporary review in ''[[The New York Times]]'', film critic [[Bosley Crowther]] state
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• Songs for Swingin' Sellers
  ...bk1AAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}</ref> Martin was aided by the contemporary success of radio comedy and believed "comedy records succeeded because soun ...on/Mr_Strangelove/PO-5-ttYn3UC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}</ref> "The Contemporary Scene – 2: T.V. Today" consists of two sketches. The first, "Face to Face
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• Denis Norden
  ...en Park Elementary School and the [[City of London School]] where he was a contemporary of [[Kingsley Amis]]. Upon leaving school, he worked as a [[stagehand]], mo ...n and radio appearances. He contributed to a [[BBC Four]] season about the history of satire, and he appeared as a guest on ''[[The One Show]]'' on 2 October
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• Goodbyeee
  ...f>) witty man named [[Edmund Blackadder]], in different periods throughout history. In ''Blackadder Goes Forth'', he is [[Captain Blackadder]] ([[Rowan Atkins ...ef name=bmh>{{citation |page=146 |title=British Music Hall: An Illustrated History |author=Richard Anthony Baker |publisher=Pen and Sword |year=2014 |isbn=978
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• Blackadder II
  ...an idea proposed by [[Ben Elton]] to make him "the stupidest person in the history of...human beings", and to act as a foil to Blackadder's new-found intellig ...eek]] references to [[Shakespeare's plays]]; Shakespeare is mentioned as a contemporary Elizabethan, and his famous quotations are twisted for comic effect.<ref na
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• Camp (style)
  == Contemporary culture == ...s-date=2022-03-05}}</ref><ref name="CampPraunheim">{{cite book|title=A New History of German Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98tvAwAAQBAJ&dq=wate
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• Graham McCann
  ...iversity's continuing education programme, primarily in the subject of the history of British political thought.<ref name=Cambridge/> ...r, Muriel G. |title=Review of ''Marilyn Monroe'' by Graham McCann |journal=Contemporary Sociology |volume=18 |issue=1 |date=January 1989 |pages=115–16 |doi=10.23
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• Bedazzled (1967 film)
  ...d Ray]]. He enthusiastically called ''Bedazzled''{{'}}s satire "barbed and contemporary ... dry and understated," and overall, a "magnificently photographed, intel ...omon |first=Aubrey |title=Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History |series=The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series |location=[[Lanham, Maryland]] |pub
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