...[Edinburgh Academy]]<ref name=":1"/> before serving briefly in the [[Royal Scots]] Youth Battalion of the army until he was injured in an accident. During a ...den had a long theatrical career, most notably at [[Laurence Olivier]]'s [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] where he performed as The Player King i

| next = [[The Royal Train]] ...Welsh photographer, Mr. Cheeseman. It starts to go wrong when the American soldiers are told to make themselves feel at home – and thus immediately start fli

...gerty]] at the [[Central School of Speech and Drama]], then based at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], [[London]] and first acted on stage in 1921.<ref>V&A, Theatr ...d III]], [[Othello]] and [[Macbeth]]. In only his second season with the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] Laurie got the chance to play [[Hamlet]], which was a

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...ham|Sir Thomas Beecham]]'s ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Ring]]'' Cycle at [[Royal Opera House|Covent Garden]].<ref name=H74/>|group= n}} ...the same programme as the cellist [[John Barbirolli]] or the [[Band of the Scots Guards]].<ref>"Programmes for the Week-End", ''The Times'', 16 January 1926

...49|pp=24–25}} The royal family were fans of the programme; a member of the Royal Household said that if the war were to end between 8.30 and 9.00&nbsp;pm on ...rogrammes in November was broadcast on the [[BBC Forces Programme]] to the soldiers in North Africa, the first time the show had been transmitted to the troops