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John Sessions, the Glossary

John Sessions (11 January 1953 – 2 November 2020), born John Marshall, was a British actor and comedian.^[1]

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999 film)

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1999 fantasy romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Michael Hoffman, based on the 1600 play of the same name by William Shakespeare.

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Absolute Power (radio and TV series)

Absolute Power is a British comedy programme, set in the offices of Prentiss McCabe, a fictional public relations company (or 'government-media relations consultancy') in London, run by Charles Prentiss (Stephen Fry) and Martin McCabe (John Bird).

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Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple (or simply Marple) is a British ITV television programme loosely based on the books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie.

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot, or simply Poirot, is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013.

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Al Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor.

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Alan Davies

Alan Roger Davies (born 6 March 1966) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor and TV presenter.

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Animalympics

Animalympics is a 1980 American animated television film directed by Steven Lisberger and produced by Lisberger Studios for the NBC network.

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Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Francesco Gramsci (22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician.

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Arthur Lowe

Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor.

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Asterix

Asterix (Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois, "Asterix the Gaul") (also known as Asterix and Obelix in some adaptations or The Adventures of Asterix) is a comic book series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors (including the titular hero Asterix) who adventure around the world and fight the odds of the Roman Republic, with the aid of a magic potion, during the era of Julius Caesar, in an ahistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars.

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Audiobook

An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud.

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Ayrshire

Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir) is a historic county and registration county, in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Bangor University

Bangor University (Prifysgol Bangor) is a public university in Bangor, Wales.

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Bangor, Gwynedd

Bangor is a cathedral city and community in Gwynedd, North Wales.

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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 One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Proms

The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bedford

Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England.

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Bedford Modern School

Bedford Modern School (often called BMS or simply Modern) is a Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference independent school in Bedford, England. John Sessions and Bedford Modern School are people educated at Bedford Modern School.

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Belfast (film)

Belfast is a 2021 British coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

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Blandings (TV series)

Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle stories of P. G. Wodehouse.

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Boon (TV series)

Boon is a British television drama starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey.

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Brummie dialect

The Brummie dialect, or more formally the Birmingham dialect, is spoken by many people in Birmingham, England, and some of its surrounding area.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Castaway (film)

Castaway is a 1986 British biographical-drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed.

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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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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.

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Chris Riddell

Chris Riddell (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born English illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.

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Clara Schumann

Clara Josephine Schumann (née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher.

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Clive Anderson

Clive Stuart Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is an English television and radio presenter, comedian, writer, and former barrister.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one performer or by several performers.

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Cousin Bette (1998 film)

Cousin Bette is a 1998 British–American comedy-drama film starring Jessica Lange in the title role and is loosely based on the novel of the same name by the French author Honoré de Balzac.

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Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series)

Dalziel and Pascoe is a British television crime drama based on the mystery novels of the same name, written by Reginald Hill.

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Dead Boss

Dead Boss is a British sitcom which was shown on BBC Three in 2012.

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Death Comes to Time

Death Comes to Time is a webcast audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced by the BBC and first broadcast in five episodes on the BBCi Cult website from 12 July 2001, accompanied by limited animation.

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Death in Paradise (TV series)

Death in Paradise is a British-French crime comedy drama television series created by Robert Thorogood, starring Ben Miller (Series 1–3), Kris Marshall (Series 3–6), Ardal O'Hanlon (Series 6–9), Ralf Little (Series 9–13) and Don Gilet (Christmas Special 2024−).

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Denial (2016 film)

Denial is a 2016 biographical film directed by Mick Jackson and written by David Hare, based on Deborah Lipstadt's 2005 book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. It dramatises the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar, was sued by David Irving, a Holocaust denier, for libel.

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Dennis W. Sciama

Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was an English physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

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Donmar Warehouse

The Donmar Warehouse is a 251-seat, not-for-profit theatre in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Edward Heath

Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), commonly known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.

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Edward Mellanby

Sir Edward Mellanby (8 April 1884 – 30 January 1955) was a British biochemist and nutritionist who discovered vitamin D and its role in preventing rickets in 1919.

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EMI Classics

EMI Classics was a record label founded by Thorn EMI in 1990 to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogues for internationally distributed classical music releases.

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English literature

English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.

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Equity (British trade union)

Equity, formerly officially titled the British Actors' Equity Association, is the trade union for the performing arts and entertainment industries in the United Kingdom.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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Euroscepticism

Euroscepticism, also spelled as Euroskepticism or EU-scepticism, is a political position involving criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration.

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Evening Standard

The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.

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Faeries (1999 film)

Faeries is a 1999 British animated fantasy film directed by Gary Hurst from a screenplay written by Jocelyn Stevenson, and featuring the voices of Kate Winslet, Dougray Scott and Jeremy Irons.

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Father Brown (2013 TV series)

Father Brown is a British period detective television series loosely based on the Father Brown short stories by G. K. Chesterton, starring Mark Williams as the crime-solving Roman Catholic priest.

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Filth (film)

Filth is a 2013 psychological black comedy crime thriller film written and directed by Jon S. Baird, based on Irvine Welsh's 1998 novel Filth.

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Finding Your Feet

Finding Your Feet is a 2017 British romantic comedy film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Nick Moorcroft and Meg Leonard.

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Fish (singer)

Derek William Dick (born 25 April 1958), better known by his stage name Fish, is a Scottish singer, songwriter and occasional actor.

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Five Children and It (film)

Five Children and It is a 2004 family fantasy-comedy-drama adventure film adaptation of the 1902 novel Five Children and It, which features live action and computer animation.

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Florence Foster Jenkins (film)

Florence Foster Jenkins is a 2016 biographical film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Nicholas Martin and Julia Kogan.

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Franky Fitzgerald

Francesca "Franky" Fitzgerald is a fictional character from the third generation of the British teen drama Skins.

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Freddie as F.R.O.7

Freddie as F.R.O.7 (also known as Freddie the Frog) is a 1992 British animated musical action fantasy comedy film written and directed by Jon Acevski and starring the voice of Ben Kingsley.

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Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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French and Saunders

French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comedy duo and namesake Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders that originally broadcast on BBC2 from 1987 to 1993, and later on BBC One until 2017.

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Friday Night Dinner

Friday Night Dinner is a British sitcom created by Robert Popper that aired on Channel 4 from 25 February 2011 to 1 May 2020.

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Fun Kids

Fun Kids is a national children's and pop digital radio station in the United Kingdom with associated websites, YouTube and podcast channels.

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Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 book The Gangs of New York.

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Geoffrey Howe

Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, (20 December 1926 – 9 October 2015), known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1990.

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George Henry Lewes

George Henry Lewes (18 April 1817 – 30 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre.

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Girls on Top (British TV series)

Girls on Top is a British sitcom, broadcast on ITV in 1985 and 1986, and made by Allan McKeown's Witzend Productions for the ITV contractor Central Independent Television.

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Gormenghast (TV serial)

Gormenghast is a four-episode television series based on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake.

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Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Happy Families (1985 TV series)

Happy Families is a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton which was a BBC series first broadcast in 1985.

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Harold Wilson

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976.

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Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You (HIGNFY) is a British television panel show, produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC, which premiered on 28 September 1990.

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Hawking (2004 film)

Hawking is a 2004 biographical drama television film directed by Philip Martin and written by Peter Moffat.

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Henry V (1989 film)

Henry V is a 1989 British historical drama film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh in his feature directorial debut, based on William Shakespeare's history play of the same name.

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High Heels and Low Lifes

High Heels and Low Lifes is a 2001 action comedy-drama film starring Minnie Driver, Mary McCormack, Kevin McNally, Mark Williams, Danny Dyer and Michael Gambon.

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Hoax

A hoax is a widely publicised falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into putting up the highest possible social currency in support of the hoax.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Hotel Babylon (BBC series)

Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the 2004 book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One.

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In the Bleak Midwinter (film)

In the Bleak Midwinter (released in the US as A Midwinter's Tale) is a 1995 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

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In the Red (TV series)

In the Red is a three-part BBC Two black comedy-crime drama 1998 series featuring Warren Clarke as BBC Reporter George Cragge and Alun Armstrong as Police Superintendent Frank Jefferson, investigating a series of murders of London bank managers, a small political party contesting a by-election, and a plan to overthrow the Director-General of the BBC.

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Inconceivable (2008 film)

Inconceivable is a 2008 satirical drama film about the test-tube baby industry.

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Intervention (2007 film)

Intervention is a 2007 British drama film directed by Mary McGuckian.

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Intrigo: Dear Agnes

Intrigo: Dear Agnes is a 2019 German-Swedish-American mystery crime drama film directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Carla Juri, Gemma Chan and Jamie Sives. It is the sequel of the 2018 film Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018).

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Jackanory

Jackanory is a BBC children's television series which was originally broadcast between 1965 and 1996.

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James Boswell

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 (N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh.

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Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor and activist.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.

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John Cowper Powys

John Cowper Powys (8 October 187217 June 1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879.

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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV series)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a seven-part British historical fantasy TV miniseries adapted by Peter Harness from Susanna Clarke's best-selling 2004 novel of the same name.

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Judge John Deed

Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One.

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Just William (2010 TV series)

Just William is a United Kingdom television series first broadcast on BBC One in December 2010.

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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker.

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Largs

Largs (An Leargaidh Ghallda) is a town on the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland, about from Glasgow.

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Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee

Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee was a 1984 BBC 2 sketch show starring Robbie Coltrane, John Sessions, Ron Bain and Louise Gold.

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Legend (2015 film)

Legend is a 2015 biographical crime thriller film written and directed by American director Brian Helgeland.

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Lewis (TV series)

Lewis is a British television detective drama produced for ITV, first airing in 2006 (pilot) then 2007 (series 1).

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Lighthouse Hill (film)

Lighthouse Hill is a 2004 British comedy film directed by David Fairman and starring Jason Flemyng, Kirsty Mitchell and Frank Finlay.

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Little Crackers

Little Crackers is a British Christmas comedy-drama that was broadcast on Sky1.

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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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Longing (play)

Longing is a 2013 play by the Scottish writer William Boyd, based on the short stories My Life ("The Story of a Provincial") and "A Visit to Friends" by the Russian author Anton Chekhov.

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Loving Vincent

Loving Vincent is a 2017 adult animated drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, in particular the circumstances of his death.

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Low Winter Sun (British TV series)

Low Winter Sun is a two-part miniseries that first aired on Channel 4 in Great Britain, in 2006.

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Made in Dagenham

Made in Dagenham is a 2010 British comedy-drama film directed by Nigel Cole, written by William Ivory, and starring Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Daniel Mays and Richard Schiff.

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Margaret (2009 film)

Margaret is a 2009 television film produced by Great Meadow Productions for the BBC.

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Marillion

Marillion are a British neo prog band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.

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McMaster University

McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Michael Berkeley

Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, (born 29 May 1948) is an English composer, broadcaster on music and member of the House of Lords.

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Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor.

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Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

Mid Morning Matters is a British digital radio show parody written by Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Armando Iannucci, produced by Baby Cow Productions and funded by the British arm of Australian lager company Foster's, starring Coogan as fictional radio DJ Alan Partridge.

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Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders is a British crime drama television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from the novels in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series created by Caroline Graham, and broadcasts on the ITV Network since its premiere on 23 March 1997.

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Monologue

In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.

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Moone Boy

Moone Boy is an Irish sitcom created, co-written by and co-starring Chris O'Dowd for British broadcaster Sky One.

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Mr Selfridge

Mr Selfridge is a British period drama television series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his department store, Selfridge & Co, in London, set from 1908 to 1928.

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Mr. Holmes

Mr.

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Muddle Earth

Muddle Earth is a children's novel by Paul Stewart, published in 2003, and illustrated by Chris Riddell.

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Mummy on the Orient Express

"Mummy on the Orient Express" is the eighth episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who.

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Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes

Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes is a television crime drama series created by David Pirie, and co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, a PBS station.

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My Night with Reg

My Night with Reg is a play by British playwright Kevin Elyot which was produced in 1994 by the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Roger Michell.

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My Night with Reg (film)

My Night with Reg is a 1996 British film adapted from the Kevin Elyot play of the same title, and directed by Roger Michell.

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Mycroft Holmes

Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1893 to 1908.

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Nativity!

Nativity! is a 2009 British Christmas musical comedy film directed by Debbie Isitt and released on 27 November 2009 and the first instalment in the ''Nativity'' film series.

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New Tricks

New Tricks is a British television police procedural comedy drama, created by Nigel McCrery and Roy Mitchell, produced primarily by Wall to Wall (until its final year, when it was handled by Headstrong Pictures), and broadcast on BBC One.

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Nigel Farage

Nigel Paul Farage (born 3 April 1964) is a British politician and broadcaster who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton and the Leader of Reform UK since 2024, having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021 when it was called the Brexit Party.

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Oliver Twist (2007 TV series)

Oliver Twist is a 2007 British television adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist, written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Coky Giedroyc.

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One Foot in the Grave is a British television sitcom written by David Renwick.

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One of the Hollywood Ten

One of the Hollywood Ten is a 2000 Spanish-British bio-picture.

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Outer Hebrides

The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

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Outing

Outing is the act of disclosing an LGBT person's sexual orientation or gender identity without that person's consent.

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Outlander (TV series)

Outlander is a historical drama television series based on the Outlander novel series by Diana Gabaldon.

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Outnumbered (British TV series)

Outnumbered is a British sitcom about the Brockman family, starring Hugh Dennis as the father, Claire Skinner as the mother and their three children played by Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche and Ramona Marquez.

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Paul Jarrico

Paul Jarrico (January 12, 1915 – October 28, 1997) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.

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Paul Stewart (writer)

Paul Stewart (born June 1955) is a writer of children's books, best known for three series written in collaboration with the illustrator Chris Riddell: The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance novels, and the Far Flung Adventures series.

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Phil Cornwell

Philip Cornwell (born 5 October 1957) is an English actor, comedian, impressionist and writer.

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Philostrate

Philostrate (meaning "lover of battle") is a fictional character in a number of literary works, including William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596).

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Porterhouse Blue (TV series)

Porterhouse Blue is a 1987 television comedy series adapted by Malcolm Bradbury from the 1974 Tom Sharpe novel of the same name for Channel 4 in four episodes.

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Portrait of Père Tanguy

Portrait of Père Tanguy, painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1887, is one of his three paintings of Julien Tanguy.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.

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Princess Caraboo (film)

Princess Caraboo is a 1994 American historical comedy-drama film.

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Private Passions

Private Passions is a weekly music discussion programme that has been running since 15 April 1995 on BBC Radio 3, presented by the composer Michael Berkeley.

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Pudsey the Dog: The Movie

Pudsey The Dog: The Movie (also known as Pudsey: The Movie) is a 2014 British live action family comedy film directed by Nick Moore, produced by Simon Cowell, written by Paul Rose with music by Simon Woodgate and starring Pudsey the Dog, one half of the dancing duo Ashleigh and Pudsey, voiced by David Walliams.

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Q (magazine)

Q was a popular music magazine.

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QI

QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game quiz show for television created and co-produced by John Lloyd.

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Rab C. Nesbitt

Rab C. Nesbitt is a Scottish comedy series which began in 1988.

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Rag Tale

Rag Tale is a 2005 British comedy film directed by Mary McGuckian.

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Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series, starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope respectively as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk.

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Reichenbach Falls (film)

Reichenbach Falls is a 2007 British thriller television film directed by John McKay and starring Alec Newman, Alastair Mackenzie and Nina Sosanya.

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Restoration comedy

"Restoration comedy" is English comedy written and performed in the Restoration period of 1660–1710.

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Richard J. Evans

Sir Richard John Evans (born September 29, 1947) is a British historian of 19th- and 20th-century Europe with a focus on Germany.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas.

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Robbie Coltrane

Anthony Robert McMillan (30 March 195014 October 2022), known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor.

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Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby

Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby, (12 February 1900 – 16 July 1986), often known as Bob Boothby, was a British Conservative politician.

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Ronni Ancona & Co

Ronni Ancona & Co is a comedy sketch show that aired on BBC One in 2007.

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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, also known by its abbreviation RADA, is a drama school in London, England, which provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (– 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.

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Scottish nationalism

Scottish nationalism promotes the idea that the Scottish people form a cohesive nation and national identity.

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Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots Pairlament) is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Scotland.

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ScreenPlay

ScreenPlay is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993.

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Senedd

The Senedd, officially known as the Welsh Parliament in English and Senedd Cymru in Welsh, is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Wales.

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Shameless (British TV series)

Shameless is a British comedy drama television programme created and executive produced by Paul Abbott.

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Sherlock (TV series)

Sherlock is a British mystery crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories.

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Skins (British TV series)

Skins is a British teen comedy drama television series that follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of sixth form.

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Sky Bandits (1986 film)

Sky Bandits, also known as Gunbus, is a 1986 British adventure film about two outlaws from the Wild West, drafted to the battlefields of WWI, who enlist in the fledgling Royal Flying Corps flying early warplanes called gunbuses.

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Sonnet

The term sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto (from the Latin word sonus). It refers to a fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme.

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Sonnet 62

Sonnet 62 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

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South London

South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames.

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Spitting Image

Spitting Image is a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn.

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St Albans

St Albans is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton.

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Stella Street

Stella Street is a British television comedy programme, originally screened in four series on BBC Two between 22 December 1997 and 11 December 2001.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and writer. John Sessions and Stephen Fry are gay comedians.

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Ted Lowe

Edwin Charles Ernest Lowe (1 November 19201 May 2011) was an English snooker commentator for the BBC and ITV.

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That'll Teach 'Em

That'll Teach 'Em is a British historical reality documentary series produced by Twenty Twenty Television for the Channel 4 network in the United Kingdom.

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The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996 film)

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a 1996 fantasy comedy family film, directed by Steve Barron and based on the original 1883 novel of the same name by Carlo Collodi.

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The Bounty (1984 film)

The Bounty is a 1984 British epic historical drama film directed by Roger Donaldson.

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The Comic Strip

The Comic Strip are a group of British comedians who came to prominence in the 1980s.

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The Good Shepherd (film)

The Good Shepherd is a 2006 American spy film produced and directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, and De Niro, with an extensive supporting cast.

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The Great (TV series)

The Great (titled onscreen as The Great: An Occasionally True Story and in one episode as The Great: An Almost Entirely Untrue Story) is an alternate historical and satirical comedy-drama television series very loosely based on the rise to power of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia.

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The Great Game (Sherlock)

"The Great Game" is the third and final episode of the first series of the television series Sherlock.

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The Great Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper is a 1981 musical heist comedy film directed by Jim Henson (in his feature directorial debut) and the second theatrical film featuring the Muppets.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The History of Tom Jones: a Foundling (TV series)

The History of Tom Jones – A Foundling is a five-part TV series produced by the BBC in 1997.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a British crime drama television series that aired on BBC One from 12 March 2001 to 1 June 2008, consisting of six series and 24 episodes.

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The Iron Lady (film)

The Iron Lady is a 2011 biographical drama film based on the life and career of Margaret Thatcher, a British politician who was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the office.

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The Last Station

The Last Station is a 2009 internationally-produced English-language biographical drama film written and directed by Michael Hoffman, and based on Jay Parini's 1990 biographical novel of the same name, which chronicled the final months of Leo Tolstoy's life.

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The Loch (TV series)

The Loch (also known as Loch Fyne, and as Loch Ness on Acorn TV in America) is a six-part British television drama series, created by screenwriter Stephen Brady, that first broadcast on ITV on 11 June 2017.

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The Lost Prince

The Lost Prince is a British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919.

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The Making of Plus One

The Making of Plus One is a 2010 British-Canadian comedy film about the independent filmmaking industry.

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The Merchant of Venice (2004 film)

The Merchant of Venice is a 2004 romantic drama film based on Shakespeare's play of the same name.

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The Muppets Take Manhattan

The Muppets Take Manhattan is a 1984 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Frank Oz and the third theatrical film featuring the Muppets.

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The New Statesman (1987 TV series)

The New Statesman is a British sitcom made in the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the United Kingdom's Conservative government of the period.

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The Pope Must Die

The Pope Must Die (alternative known title as The Pope Must Diet! in the United States and Canada) is a 1991 British Catholic Church comedy film directed by Peter Richardson, who also wrote the screenplay with Pete Richens derived from elements of an earlier screenplay for a three-part mini-series satirising the Catholic Church, and which had been rejected by Channel 4.

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The Rack Pack

The Rack Pack is a 2016 British comedy-drama television film about professional snooker during the 1970s through the 1980s, focusing on the intense rivalry between Alex Higgins and Steve Davis.

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The Sender

The Sender is a 1982 British psychological horror thriller film directed by Roger Christian and written by Thomas Baum.

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The Silent Storm

The Silent Storm is a 2014 British romantic drama film written and directed by Corinna McFarlane and starring Andrea Riseborough and Damian Lewis.

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UK Independence Party

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom.

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Upstart Crow

Upstart Crow is a British sitcom based on the life of William Shakespeare written by Ben Elton.

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Verulam School

Verulam School is an 11–18 boys state–funded secondary school with academy status in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, founded in 1938 as St Albans Boys' Modern School.

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Victoria (British TV series)

Victoria is a British historical television drama series created and principally written by Daisy Goodwin, starring Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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When Love Speaks

When Love Speaks is a compilation album that features interpretations of William Shakespeare's sonnets – some spoken, some set to music – and excerpts from his plays by famous actors and musicians, released under EMI Classics in April 2002.

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Whisky Galore! (2016 film)

Whisky Galore! is a 2016 British film, a remake of the 1949 Ealing Comedy of the same name, itself based on the novel of the same name by Compton Mackenzie.

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Whoops Apocalypse (film)

Whoops Apocalypse is a 1986 British comedy film directed by Tom Bussmann and starring Loretta Swit, Herbert Lom, and Peter Cook.

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Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a short-form improvisational comedy show created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson.

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Whose Line Is It Anyway? (British TV series)

Whose Line is it Anyway? (shortened to Whose Line? or WLIIA) is a short-form improvisational comedy television series created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, presented by Clive Anderson, and produced for Channel 4 between 23 September 1988 and 4 February 1999.

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References

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

Also known as John Gibb Marshall, Sessions, John.

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