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John Sparkes, the Glossary

John Sparkes (born 6 January 1954) is a Welsh actor and comedian.^[1]

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Comedians from Swansea
Male actors from Swansea
People educated at Gowerton Grammar School
Welsh male comedians
Welsh male voice actors

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is a 2019 animated science fiction comedy film produced by Aardman Animations.

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A Town Called Panic

A Town Called Panic (French: Panique au village, "Panic at the village") is a 2002-2003 French-language Belgian stop-motion sitcom created by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar for La Parti and Pic Pic André.

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Absolutely (TV series)

Absolutely is a British comedy sketch show.

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Alexei Sayle

Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist.

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BAFTA Cymru

BAFTA Cymru (or BAFTA in Wales) is the Welsh branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and was founded in 1987.

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Barry Welsh Is Coming

Barry Welsh Is Coming is a Welsh sketch show produced by Absolutely Productions for HTV Wales.

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BBC Cymru Wales

BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Wales.

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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 Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio Wales

BBC Radio Wales is a Welsh national radio station owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC.

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Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom

Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom is a British preschool animated television series. The show was created by Neville Astley and Mark Baker, and produced by Astley Baker Davies and by Entertainment One (the original companies responsible for Peppa Pig). Many of the voice actors who worked on Peppa Pig have lent their voices to the show; these include John Sparkes, Sarah Ann Kennedy, David Rintoul and David Graham.

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Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls is a 2003 British comedy film directed by Nigel Cole.

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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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Comedy Nation

Comedy Nation was a British sketch comedy television programme that premiered at midnight 9 January 1998 on BBC Two.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2018 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 different shows across 322 venues.

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Fireman Sam

Fireman Sam (Sam Tân) is an animated children's television series about a fireman named Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other residents in the fictional Welsh rural village of Pontypandy (a portmanteau of two real towns, Pontypridd and Tonypandy).

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Ghost Story (TV series)

Ghost Story was an American television horror anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973.

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Hugh Pugh (fictional character)

Hugh Pugh is a news reporter for the fictitious Look Out Wales reports featured on comedy sketch show Barry Welsh Is Coming.

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ITV Central

ITV Central, previously known as Central Independent Television, Carlton Central, ITV1 for Central England and commonly referred to as simply Central, is the Independent Television franchisee for the Midlands.

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ITV Wales & West

ITV Wales and West, previously known as Harlech Television (HTV), was an ITV franchisee in the United Kingdom until 31 December 2013, licensed to broadcast by the regulator Ofcom.

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Jeff Global's Global Probe

Jeff Global's Global Probe is a short-lived regional comedy sketch show first seen on ITV Wales in 2004.

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Jeroen Krabbé

Jeroen Aart Krabbé (born 5 December 1944) is a Dutch actor and film director with a successful career in both Dutch- and English-language films.

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Jo Brand

Josephine Grace Brand (born 23 July 1957) is an English actress, comedian, presenter and writer.

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List of Fireman Sam characters

Fireman Sam (''Welsh'': Sam Tân) first broadcast on 17 November 1987 on the Welsh TV channel S4C.

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Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales.

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Morwenna Banks

Tamsin Morwenna Banks (born 20 September 1961) is a British actress, comedian, writer, and producer.

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Mumbles (district)

The Mumbles (Y Mwmbwls) is a district of Swansea, Wales, located on the south-east corner of the unitary authority area.

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Naked Video

Naked Video is a BBC Scotland sketch show that was aired on BBC2 from 12 May 1986 to 18 November 1991.

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Parka

A parka and anorak is a type of coat with a hood, often lined with fur or faux fur.

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Paul Merton

Paul James Martin (born 9 July 1957), known by the stage name Paul Merton, is an English comedian.

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Peter Baikie

Peter Baikie (born 1957) is a Scottish comedian and composer.

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Rik Mayall

Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014), known professionally as Rik Mayall, was an English comedian, actor and writer.

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Shaun the Sheep

Shaun the Sheep is a stop-motion animated silent comedy children's television series which is developed by Aardman Animations.

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Shaun the Sheep Movie

Shaun the Sheep Movie (marketed as Shaun the Sheep: The Movie) is a 2015 animated adventure comedy film written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton (in their directorial debuts).

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Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas

Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas is a British stop-motion animated television special based on the television program Shaun the Sheep by Nick Park.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales.

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Talk show

A talk show (sometimes chat show in British English) is a television programming, radio programming or Podcast genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.

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The All New Alexei Sayle Show

The All New Alexei Sayle Show was a comedy sketch show broadcast on BBC2 television for a total of twelve episodes, over two series in 1994 and 1995.

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The Big Knights

The Big Knights is a British animated television series.

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The Strangerers

The Strangerers is a British television comedy-drama science fiction series written by Rob Grant (best known as co-creator of Red Dwarf) and was broadcast on Sky One between 15 February and 11 April 2000.

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Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention

Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention is a British science-themed miniseries, starring Peter Sallis, Ashley Jensen, Jem Stansfield, and John Sparkes, produced by Aardman Animations, which aired on BBC One during 2010, from 3 November to 8 December.

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References

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

Also known as Siadwel, Siadwell, Sparkes, John.

John Sparkes, the Glossary

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See also

Comedians from Swansea

Male actors from Swansea

People educated at Gowerton Grammar School

Welsh male comedians

Welsh male voice actors

References