Bridge on the River Wye, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 11 relations: Angela Morley, Comedy, EMI, George Martin, Jonathan Miller, Parlophone, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Goon Show.

2. 1960s comedy albums
3. Adaptations of works by Pierre Boulle
4. Comedy albums by British artists

Angela Morley

Angela Morley (10 March 192414 January 2009) was an English composer and conductor who became familiar to BBC Radio listeners in the 1950s under the name of Wally Stott.

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Comedy

Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician.

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Jonathan Miller

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist and physician.

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Parlophone

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian.

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Spike Milligan

Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Bridge on the River Wye and the Bridge on the River Kwai are Adaptations of works by Pierre Boulle.

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The Goon Show

The Goon Show is a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme.

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See also

1960s comedy albums

• "Welcome to the LBJ Ranch!"
• 200 M.P.H.
• 8:15 12:15
• Allan in Wonderland
• An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May
• An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall
• Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right!
• Bridge on the River Wye
• Burns and Carlin at the Playboy Club Tonight
• Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival
• Don Rickles Speaks!
• For Swingin' Livers Only!
• Hello Dummy!
• Homer and Jethro Go West
• How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
• I Started Out as a Child
• In Retrospect (Nichols and May album)
• It's True! It's True!
• Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas
• Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris
• Knockers Up!
• Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine Doctors
• My Son, the Nut
• Peter Schickele Presents an Evening with P. D. Q. Bach (1807–1742)?
• Peter and the Commissar
• Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air
• Revenge (Bill Cosby album)
• Revisited (Tom Lehrer album)
• Richard Pryor (album)
• Sports (Bill Cosby album)
• Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years
• Take-Offs and Put-Ons
• That Was the Year That Was
• The Baroque Beatles Book
• The Best of Bill Cosby
• The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
• The First Family (album)
• The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters
• To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With
• Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
• Why Is There Air?
• Wonderfulness
• Woody Allen (album)
• Yogi Bear and the Three Stooges Meet the Mad, Mad, Mad Dr. No-No
• You Don't Have to Be Jewish
• You Won't Believe Your Ears

Adaptations of works by Pierre Boulle

• Bridge on the River Wye
• Face of a Hero (Playhouse 90)
• Not the Glory (Playhouse 90)
• Planet of the Apes
• The Bridge on the River Kwai

Comedy albums by British artists

• Bridge on the River Wye
• Captain Beaky and His Band
• Cohen on the Telephone
• The Iron Lady (album)

References

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