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Arthur Askey, the Glossary

Arthur Bowden Askey, (6 June 1900 – 16 November 1982) was an English comedian and actor.^[1]

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Adam and the Ants

Adam and the Ants were an English rock band that formed in London in 1977.

Anthea Askey

Anthea Shirley Askey (2 March 1933 – 28 February 1999) was an English actress, particularly prominent on television in the 1950s.

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Arthur's Treasured Volumes

Arthur's Treasured Volumes was a black-and-white British television series that aired on ITV in 1960.

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Back-Room Boy

Back-Room Boy is a 1942 British comedy mystery film directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Edward Black for Gainsborough Pictures and distributed by General Film Distributors.

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Band Waggon

Band Waggon was a comedy radio show broadcast by the BBC from 1938 to 1940.

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Band Waggon (film)

Band Waggon is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch and Moore Marriott.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Light Programme

The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2.

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BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the public service broadcast outlet British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927).

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Bees in Paradise

Bees in Paradise is a 1944 British musical comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton and Peter Graves.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Calling All Stars (1937 musical)

Calling All Stars is a 1937 British musical comedy film directed by Herbert Smith and starring Arthur Askey, Evelyn Dall and Max Bacon.

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Catchphrase

A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde, starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'.

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Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Cinema of the United Kingdom

The oldest known surviving film (from 1888) was shot in the United Kingdom as well as early colour films.

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A comedian or comic (feminine comedienne) is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh.

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Concert party (entertainment)

A concert party, also called a Pierrot troupe, is the collective name for a group of entertainers, or Pierrots, popular in Britain during the first half of the 20th century.

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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and writer.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Dingle, Liverpool

Dingle (known locally as the Dingle) is an inner city area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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Dirk Wears White Sox

Dirk Wears White Sox is the debut studio album by English new wave band Adam and the Ants.

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Drag (entertainment)

Drag is a performance of exaggerated femininity, masculinity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes.

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Eamonn Andrews

Eamonn Andrews, (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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Follow the Girls

Follow the Girls is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton, Eddie Davis and Fred Thompson and music and lyrics by Dan Shapiro, Milton Pascal, and Phil Charig.

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Friends and Neighbours

Friends and Neighbours is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins and Peter Illing.

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Gainsborough Pictures

Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, northeast London.

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Gangrene

Gangrene is a type of tissue death caused by a lack of blood supply.

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His Master's Voice

His Master's Voice (HMV) was the name of a major British record label created in 1901 by The Gramophone Co. Ltd.

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Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world.

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I Thank You (film)

I Thank You is a 1941 black and white British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ ''WYTE'') is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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ITV Granada

ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man.

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John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird (13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926.

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Jokers Wild (TV series)

Jokers Wild is a British comedy panel game show that originally aired on ITV as a pilot on 15 April 1969 and then as a full series from 9 July 1969 to 20 November 1974.

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King Arthur Was a Gentleman

King Arthur Was a Gentleman is a 1942 British, black-and-white, comedy, musical film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey.

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Knutsford

Knutsford is a market town in Cheshire, England; it is located south-west of Manchester, north-west of Macclesfield and south-east of Warrington.

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Lambeth

Lambeth is a district in South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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List of British actors

This list of notable actors from the United Kingdom includes performers in film, radio, stage and television.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Liverpool City Council

Liverpool City Council is the local authority for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England.

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Liverpool Institute High School for Boys

The Liverpool Institute High School for Boys was an all-boys grammar school in the English port city of Liverpool.

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Living It Up (British TV series)

Living It Up was a black-and-white British sitcom starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch that ran for nine episodes from 1957 to 1958.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Love and Kisses (TV series)

Love and Kisses was a black-and-white British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1955.

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Make Mine a Million

Make Mine a Million is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Lance Comfort, starring Arthur Askey, Sid James, and Bernard Cribbins.

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Mickie Most

Michael Peter Hayes (20 June 1938 – 30 May 2003), known as Mickie Most, was an English record producer behind scores of hit singles for acts such as the Animals, Herman's Hermits, the Nashville Teens, Donovan, Lulu, Suzi Quatro, Hot Chocolate, Arrows, Racey and the Jeff Beck Group, often issued on his own RAK Records label.

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Miss London Ltd.

Miss London Ltd. is a 1943 British, black-and-white, comedy, musical, war film, directed by Val Guest and starring Arthur Askey and Evelyn Dall.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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New Faces

New Faces is a British television talent show that aired in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Novelty song

A novelty song is a type of song built upon some form of novel concept, such as a gimmick, a piece of humor, or a sample of popular culture.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Pantomime

Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.

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Pantomime dame

A pantomime dame is a traditional role in British pantomime.

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Powis Pinder

Powis Pinder (6 September 1872 – 25 July 1941) was an operatic baritone who created a number of minor roles in the Savoy Operas and played a range of more important parts in Gilbert and Sullivan operas and other works during a two decade long stage career.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Askey

Also known as Arthur Bowden Askey, Askey, Arthur.

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