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Max Boyce, the Glossary

Maxwell Boyce, (born 27 September 1943) is a Welsh comedian, singer and entertainer from Glynneath, Wales.^[1]

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Adelaide

Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.

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Alhambra Theatre, Bradford

The Alhambra Theatre is a theatre in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, named after the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain, which was the place of residence of the Emir of the Emirate of Granada.

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Barbara Bach

Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey (né Goldbach; August 28, 1946) is an American actress and former model.

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Barry John

Barry John (6 January 1945 – 4 February 2024) was a Welsh rugby union fly-half who played in the 1960s and early 1970s during the amateur era of the sport.

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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 Two

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

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Big Brother (British TV series) series 7

Big Brother 2006, also known as Big Brother 7, was the seventh series of the British reality television series Big Brother.

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Billy Connolly

Sir William Connolly (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish retired comedian, actor, artist, musician, and television presenter.

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Bob Monkhouse

Robert Alan Monkhouse (1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003) was an English comedian, writer and actor.

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Boyd Clack

Boyd Daniel Clack (born 7 March 1951) is a Canadian-born Welsh writer, actor, and musician.

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Bradford

Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Bull riding

Bull riding is a rodeo sport that involves a rider getting on a bucking bull and attempting to stay mounted while the animal tries to buck off the rider.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales.

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Cardiff Castle

Cardiff Castle (Castell Caerdydd) is a medieval castle and Victorian Gothic revival mansion located in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales.

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Cartier (jeweler)

Cartier International SNC, or simply Cartier, is a French luxury-goods conglomerate that designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells jewellery, leather goods, watches, sunglasses and eyeglasses.

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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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Charles III

Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.

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Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks.

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Dai Morris

William David "Dai" Morris MBE (born 11 November 1941 in Rhigos, Cynon Valley) is a Welsh former rugby union footballer, who won 34 caps for Wales in the years between 1967 and 1974, scoring six tries.

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Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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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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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Eisteddfod

In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music.

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Elephant polo

Elephant polo is a variant of polo played while riding elephants.

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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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EMI Records

EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a British multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Fifty pence (British coin)

The British decimal fifty pence coin (often shortened to 50p in writing and speech) is a denomination of sterling coinage worth of one pound.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Gareth Edwards

Sir Gareth Owen Edwards (born 12 July 1947) is a Welsh former rugby union player who played scrum-half and has been described by the BBC as "arguably the greatest player ever to don a Welsh jersey".

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Geraint Evans

Sir Geraint Llewellyn Evans CBE (16 February 1922 – 19 September 1992) was a Welsh bass-baritone noted for operatic roles including Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and the title role in Wozzeck.

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Glamorgan

Until 1974, Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg), was an administrative county in the south of Wales, and later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.

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Glyn Wise

Glyn Wise (born 9 January 1988) is a British television personality and Church in Wales minister from Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales.

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Glynneath

Glynneath (Glyn-nedd "valley of the River Neath"), also spelt Glyn-neath and Glyn Neath, is a town, community and electoral ward lying on the River Neath in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

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Glynneath RFC

Glynneath RFC are a Welsh Rugby Union club playing in WRU Division 1 West Central of the WRU National Leagues.

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Gorsedd Cymru

Gorsedd Cymru, or simply the Gorsedd or the Orsedd (yr Orsedd), is a society of Welsh-language poets, writers, musicians and others who have contributed to the Welsh language and to public life in Wales.

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Gren

Grenfell "Gren" Jones MBE (13 June 1934 – 4 January 2007) was one of Wales's best-known and longest-serving newspaper cartoonists.

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Harry Secombe

Sir Harry Donald Secombe (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh actor, comedian, singer and television presenter. Max Boyce and Harry Secombe are Welsh male comedians.

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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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Hawick Trades

Hawick Trades is a former rugby union club based in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders.

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Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

"Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" is the unofficial national anthem of Wales.

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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is a BBC radio comedy panel game.

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Ian Botham

Ian Terence Botham, Baron Botham, (born 24 November 1955) is an English cricket commentator, member of the House of Lords, a former cricketer who has been chairman of Durham County Cricket Club since 2017 and charity fundraiser.

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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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Jack and the Beanstalk

"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale.

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Kathmandu

Kathmandu, officially Kathmandu Metropolitan City, is the capital and most populous city of Nepal with 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households as of the 2021 Nepal census and approximately 4 million people in its urban agglomeration.

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Live at Treorchy

Live at Treorchy is a live album by Welsh comedian and singer Max Boyce, first issued in 1974.

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Lliw Valley

Lliw Valley (Dyffryn Lliw) was a local government district with borough status in West Glamorgan, Wales from 1974 to 1996.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk.

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Media Wales Ltd. is a publishing company based in Cardiff, Wales.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.

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Millennium Stadium

The Millennium Stadium (Stadiwm y Mileniwm), known since 2016 as the Principality Stadium (Stadiwm Principality) for sponsorship reasons, is the national stadium of Wales.

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Mining engineering

Mining in the engineering discipline is the extraction of minerals from the ground.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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National Eisteddfod of Wales

The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru) is the largest of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.

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Norwich

Norwich is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England of which it is the county town.

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Onllwyn

Onllwyn is a small village and community in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, near Seven Sisters.

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Opportunity Knocks (British TV series)

Opportunity Knocks is a British television and radio talent show originally hosted by Hughie Green, with a late-1980s revival hosted by Bob Monkhouse, and later by previous winner Les Dawson.

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Parc and Dare Hall

The Parc and Dare Hall, now known as the Park and Dare Theatre (Theatr y Parc a'r Dâr), is a former Miners' institute but now serves as a large entertainment venue in the village of Treorchy, in the Rhondda Valley of Wales.

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Pontardawe

Pontardawe is a town and a community in the lower Swansea Valley (Welsh: Cwmtawe).

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Pontarddulais RFC

Pontarddulais Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the town of Pontarddulais in Wales, UK.

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Pontypridd

Pontypridd (colloquially: Ponty) is a town and a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, approximately 10 miles north west of Cardiff city centre.

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Premier League

The Premier League is the highest level of the English football league system.

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Rhondda

Rhondda, or the Rhondda Valley (Cwm Rhondda), is a former coalmining area in South Wales, historically in the county of Glamorgan.

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Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles.

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Rodeo

Rodeo is a competitive equestrian sport that arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain and Mexico, expanding throughout the Americas and to other nations.

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Rodeo clown

A rodeo clown, bullfighter or rodeo protection athlete, is a rodeo performer who works in bull riding competitions.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sain (record label)

Sain (Welsh for Audio), in full – Sain (Recordiau) Cyf. (Audio (Records) Ltd) is a Welsh record label, which took part in the Welsh folk revival.

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Saint David's Day

Saint David's Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi), or the Feast of Saint David, is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March, the date of Saint David's death in 589 AD.

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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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Six Nations Championship

The Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international men's rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north.

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South Wales Echo

The South Wales Echo is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Cardiff, Wales and distributed throughout the surrounding area.

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Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Television special

A television special (often TV special, or rarely television spectacular) is a standalone television show which may also temporarily interrupt episodic programming normally scheduled for a given time slot.

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This Is Your Life (British TV series)

This Is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American series.

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Treforest

Treforest (Trefforest) is a village in the south-east of Pontypridd, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

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Treorchy RFC

Treorchy Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of Treorchy, in the Rhondda Valley, Wales.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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University of South Wales

The University of South Wales (Prifysgol De Cymru) is a public university in Wales, with campuses in Cardiff, Newport and Pontypridd.

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Wales national rugby union team

The Wales national rugby union team (Tîm rygbi'r undeb cenedlaethol Cymru) represents the Welsh Rugby Union in men's international rugby union.

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We All Had Doctors' Papers

We All Had Doctors' Papers is a live album by Welsh comedian and singer Max Boyce, first issued in 1975 and recorded at Pontarddulais Rugby Club.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.

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Ynyshir

Ynyshir (English pronunciation 'Un-is-heer') is a village and community located in the Rhondda Valley, within Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales.

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1999 Rugby World Cup

The 1999 Rugby World Cup (Cwpan Rygbi'r Byd 1999), was the fourth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial international rugby union championship, the first World Cup to be held in the sport's professional era.

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2000 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 2000 for the United Kingdom and New Zealand were announced on 31 December 1999, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2000.

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2003 Rugby World Cup

The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth Rugby World Cup and was won by England.

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References

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

Also known as Hymns and Arias.

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See also

Alumni of the University of Glamorgan

People from Neath Port Talbot

Rugby union people in Wales

Welsh folk singers

Welsh male comedians

References