• Francis Worsley
  | birth_name = Francis Frederick Worsley <!-- only use if different from name --> ...n for producing the radio comedy series ''[[It's That Man Again]]'' (ITMA) from 1939 to 1949. As a young man, he was briefly a first-class cricketer.
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• Alvar Lidell
  | alma_mater = [[w:Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]] ...lo|cello]] and [[w:singing|singing]], and was a noted [[w:actor|actor]] at Oxford.
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• Dennis Main Wilson
  ...-e-64701|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/64701|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref> ...title=Obituary: Dennis Main Wilson |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-dennis-main-wilson-1284641.html |accessdate=4 October 2020 |work=[
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• Ned Sherrin
  ...e Guardian|date=2 October 2007}}</ref><ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1204295/index.html Bio: Ned Sherrin] screenonline.org.uk</ref> and rende ...ril 2014}}</ref> he became involved in theatre at [[w:University of Oxford|Oxford]] and joined British television in 1956 shortly after the founding of indep
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• Diddy Men
  ...itle=diddy - Definition of diddy in English by Oxford Dictionaries|website=Oxford Dictionaries - English|accessdate=5 July 2018}}</ref> ...are the Diddy Men, Doddy's dotty Diddy Men, We are the Diddy Men who come from Knotty Ash". Another song "Doddy's Diddy Party" featured the refrain - "ton
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• Bob Danvers-Walker
  | death_place = [[w:Oxford]], [[w:Oxfordshire]], England ...C) network of commercial radio stations broadcasting in English to Britain from the continent.<ref name="ODNB"/> He became Chief Announcer at Radio Normand
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• Alan Hackney
  ...= Alan Hackney}}</ref> After demobilisation he proceeded to [[New College, Oxford]], where he read [[Politics, Philosophy and Economics]] under the tutelage [[Category:Writers from Manchester]]
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• Crazy Gang (comedy group)
  ...nd Allen]], [[Naughton and Gold]], and [[Nervo and Knox]] (with some input from Gray). They had all had entertainment success before the Crazy Gang but not ...best remembered was their war-time film ''[[Gasbags]]'' (1940). They kept people entertained during the war years with their irreverent comedy style, and Fl
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• Show 11
  At this point in time, the show was called '''''Crazy People'''''. '''''Show 11''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]] (Crazy People). It is the eleventh show in the first series.
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• John Wells (satirist)
  ..., in 1936. He was educated at [[Eastbourne College]] and [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]]. Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on ''[[That Was The Week That W
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• Show 5
  At this point in time the show was called '''''Crazy People'''''. '''''Show 5''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]] (Crazy People). It is the fifth show in the first series.
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• Chesney Allen
  ...tp://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=64585&back= | title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher=OUP | accessdate=13 October 20 ...eg Connelly) had universal themes such as friendship, which, again, helped people relate to the subject matter. The music was usually melodic, following a bi
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• Corbet Woodall
  ...t Stafford Woodall''' (6 April 1929 &ndash; 19 May 1982), was an [[English people|English]] [[news presenter|newsreader]] for the [[British Broadcasting Corp ...ebilitating illness. "He wasn't a well man at all, but (on camera) he rose from the dead and delivered every time."
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• Show 13
  At this point in time, the show was called '''''Crazy People'''''. '''''Show 13''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]] (Crazy People). It is the thirteenth show in the first series.
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• Geoffrey Perkins
  ...e to the Galaxy]]'' and is [[Mornington Crescent (game)#Origins|one of the people credited]] with creating the bizarre panel game [[Mornington Crescent (game ...hipping.<ref name="Telegraphobit" /> In 1977 drawing upon his work for the Oxford Revue, Perkins joined [[BBC Radio]]'s [[light entertainment]] department al
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• Show 7
  At this point in time the show was called '''''Crazy People'''''. '''''Show 7''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]] (Crazy People). It is the seventh show in the first series.
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• Claire Davenport
  ...Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111968}}</ref> ...Caesar and Cleopatra]]'' at the [[Oxford Playhouse|Playhouse]] in [[Oxford|Oxford]].{{sfn|Noble|1982|p=356}}
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• Beryl Reid
  ...A TV Award for Best Actress]] for ''[[Smiley's People (TV series)|Smiley's People]]''. Her film appearances included ''[[The Belles of St. Trinian's]]'' (195 ...''. Retrieved 27 September 2020.</ref> Reid was the daughter of [[Scottish people|Scottish]] parents and grew up in [[Manchester]], where she attended [[With
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• Pat Dixon
  | birth_name = Patrick Kenneth Macneile Dixon<!-- only use if different from name --> ...College|Winchester College]] and [[w:Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref name="Times obit" />
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• Jonathan Cecil
  ...|Eton]], where he played small parts in school plays and at [[New College, Oxford]], where he read [[modern languages]], specialising in [[French language|Fr ...d a woman who sells pigs.<ref name=theatrearchive/> Of his early acting at Oxford, Cecil said {{quote|I was still stiff and awkward, but this was rather effe
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