• Guest appearance
  ...stration |first1= Anatole |last1= Chujoy |first2= Phyllis Winifred |last2= Manchester |year= 1967 |publisher= [[Simon & Schuster]] |page= [https://archive.org/de ...lassical music]] for centuries, with guests both from the home country and from abroad. The advent of [[air transport]] has made this practice much more pr
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• Dave King (actor)
  ...anuary 24, 1955<ref>{{cite journal |title=Manchester Evening News |journal=Manchester Evening News |date=January 24, 1955 |page=2}}</ref> and being given a month ...(TV series)|Hazell]]'' (1978), ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies From Heaven]]'' (1978), ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'' (episode: "Gunfight at
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• Charlie Chester
  ...io]] and television presenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s. His style was similar to that of [[Max Miller (come .../ref> Charlie Chester, he was well known to British audiences in the 1940s from his [[BBC]] radio show ''Stand Easy''. This show was adapted for [[televisi
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• Ronnie Hazlehurst
  ...a [[cotton mill]] for £1 a week.<ref name="Indy"/><ref name="Tele Obit"/> From 1947 to 1949 he did his [[National service#United Kingdom|National Service] ...lehurst left when he was refused a pay rise.<ref name="Indy"/> Moving to [[Manchester]], he became a [[Freelancer|freelance]] musician until he was offered a pla
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• Lizbeth Webb
  ...4/Lizbeth-Webb.html|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|date=22 January 2013}}</ref> From an early age, she took singing lessons.<ref name=GuardianObit>Coveney, Mich ...binet/vivianellis/blessthebride.html |title=Profile of ''Bless the Bride'' from Record Cabinet |access-date=28 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archiv
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• George Formby Sr
  ...04}} Formby also had a successful recording career and made the transition from music hall to [[revue]] in 1916. ...n|Formby was not alone in developing a chest complaint: the mortality rate from bronchitis was 20% higher in the north west than the rest of the country.{{
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• Gorden Kaye
  ...dio play directed by [[Alan Ayckbourn]] and also in a television play from Manchester. Ayckbourn suggested that he audition for the [[Octagon Theatre, Bolton|Bol ...é Artois. He accepted and appeared in all 84 episodes (the main series ran from 1984, two years after the pilot, until 1992) and 1,200 performances of the
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• Charlie Drake
  Through the series he played a gymnast doing a single arm twist from a high ring while a commentator counted eventually into the thousands and b ...Whittaker rendered as Mr Wicketer and then Mr Pugh variously mispronounced from a childish "Mi'er Poo" to "Peeyooo". Drake sang the theme song himself, usi
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• Yootha Joyce
  ...hat she "hated" her time in Petersfield, she and the other female evacuees from Battersea would use the local church hall there for acting, dancing and sin ...hy"/> Starting back at RADA in September 1945, Joyce dropped the "Needham" from her name and began using the stage name "Yootha Joyce" saying "it seemed le
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• Gracie Fields
  ...ought therefore to be treated as an alien."], '' 'Our Gracie' risked fall from grace over wartime marriage to Italian'', 21 Dec, 2021</ref> ...sh Heritage|website=English-heritage.org.uk}}</ref> Her career accelerated from this point, with [[Drama (art form)|dramatic]] performances and the beginni
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• The Goon Show series 10
  ...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.
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• Come Play with Me (1977 film)
  ...ill Street|Great Windmill Street]], [[w:Soho|Soho]], London for 201 weeks, from April 1977 to March 1981,<ref name="Sweet">{{cite news|last=Sweet|first=Mat ...Ken Parry]]), the pair escape to the [[Scottish Highlands]] and, posing as musicians, hide out at Bovington Manor, a [[hotel]] owned by Lady Bovington ([[Irene
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• George Formby
  ...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...|George Formby]] (he is now known as George Formby Sr). Formby Sr suffered from a chest ailment, identified variously as [[bronchitis]], [[asthma]] or [[tu
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• Norman Wisdom
  ...s centre in a command bunker in London, where he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime minister]]. ...[[NAAFI]] entertainment night, during a dance routine, Wisdom stepped down from his position in the [[orchestra pit]], and started shadow boxing. Hearing h
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• Ken Dodd
  ...Arthur Askey]], [[Robb Wilton]], [[Tommy Handley]] and the "cheeky chappy" from [[Brighton]], [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http ...ews.co.uk/entertainment/comedy/s/234/234894_dodds_bolton_bonus.html | work=Manchester Evening News | date=1 February 2007 | title=Dodd's Bolton bonus | first=Nat
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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 ...one in [[Hoylake|Hoylake]] in 1940 for which the prize was an audition in Manchester for [[Jack Hylton|Jack Hylton]]. Three months after the audition, Hylton in
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• The Goon Show series 6
  ...5|fifth season]] at 7.30pm on the [[BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]] from late April 1955 through to the end of June, with around four million listen ...06}}, with a deal covering thirteen shows to be recorded at 9pm on Sundays from 18 September to 11 December, and broadcast two days later at 8.30pm on Tues
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• The Goon Show series 7
  | [[Ray Ellington|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] || Four musicians ...Dixon]] asked if the start of the new series could be deferred by a month from its planned start date to allow him a much deserved holiday. This sentiment
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• The Commitments (film)
  ...of the same name]] by [[Roddy Doyle]]. It was directed by [[Alan Parker]] from a screenplay written by Doyle, [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]]. Set ...aracters in the novel. [[Principal photography]] took place in [[Dublin]], from late August to October, 1990.
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• Spitting Image
  | caption = Opening titles from 1988 to 1991 ...d 2 February 2015</ref> The popularity of the show saw collaborations with musicians, including [[Phil Collins]] and [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]. The series was
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