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Prunella Scales, the Glossary

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is a retired English actress.^[1]

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A Chorus of Disapproval (film)

A Chorus of Disapproval is a 1989 British film adapted from the 1984 Alan Ayckbourn play of the same title, directed by Michael Winner.

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A Pocket Full of Rye

A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953,.

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A Question of Attribution

A Question of Attribution is a 1988 one-act stage play, written by Alan Bennett.

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Abinger

Abinger is a large, well-wooded and mostly rural civil parish that lies between the settlements of Dorking, Shere and Ewhurst in the district of Mole Valley, Surrey, England.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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After Henry (radio series)

After Henry is a British sitcom written by Simon Brett.

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After Henry (TV series)

After Henry is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1988 to 1992.

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter.

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All Creatures Great and Small (2020 TV series)

All Creatures Great and Small is a television series set in 1930s Northern England, based upon a series of books about a Yorkshire veterinary surgeon written by Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot.

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An Awfully Big Adventure

An Awfully Big Adventure is a 1995 British coming-of-age film directed by Mike Newell.

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Apollo Theatre

The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, in central London.

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Basil Fawlty

Basil Fawlty is the main character of the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese.

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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 Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Bideford

Bideford is a historic port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, South West England.

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Birth name

A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth.

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Bridget Turner

Bridget Joanna Turner (22 February 1939 – 27 December 2014) was an English actress.

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Bristol Old Vic

Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol.

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British Academy Television Awards

The BAFTA TV Awards, or British Academy Television Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Cabin Pressure (radio series)

Cabin Pressure is a radio sitcom written and created by John Finnemore and directed and produced by David Tyler.

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Carrie's War

Carrie's War is a 1973 English children's novel by Nina Bawden set during the Second World War.

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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 in Need

BBC Children in Need (also promoted as Plant mewn Angen in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity.

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Complete Works of Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.

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Consuming Passions

Consuming Passions is a 1988 black comedy film which stars Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce, and Sammi Davis and was directed by Giles Foster.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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CPRE

CPRE, The Countryside Charity, formerly known by names such as the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, is a charity in England with over 40,000 members and supporters.

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Desert Island Discs

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

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) also termed "Doctor of Literature" in some countries is a terminal degree in the arts, humanities and social sciences that, depending on the country, is a higher doctorate after the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree or equivalent to a higher doctorate, such as the Doctor of Science (Sc.D.

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Donald Sinclair (veterinary surgeon)

Donald Vaughan Sinclair (22 April 1911 – 28 June 1995) was a British veterinary surgeon who graduated from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in 1933.

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E. F. Benson

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer.

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Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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Emily Mortimer

Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 6 October 1971) is an English actress and filmmaker. Prunella Scales and Emily Mortimer are English voice actresses.

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Emma (1996 TV film)

Emma is a television film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence and dramatised by Andrew Davies, the same year as Miramax's film adaptation of Emma starring Gwyneth Paltrow was released.

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Emma (novel)

Emma is a novel written by English author Jane Austen.

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Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979.

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Fowey

Fowey (Fowydh, meaning 'Beech Trees') is a port town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Freedom of the City of London

The Freedom of the City of London started around 1237 as the status of a 'free man' or 'citizen', protected by the charter of the City of London and not under the jurisdiction of a feudal lord.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.

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Great Canal Journeys

Great Canal Journeys is a British television series in which a pair of presenters take canal barge and narrowboat trips in the United Kingdom, Europe, India and Egypt.

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Hobson's Choice (1954 film)

Hobson's Choice is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean.

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Horrid Henry: The Movie

Horrid Henry: The Movie is a 2011 British 3D comedy film directed by Nick Moore and produced by Allan Niblo, Rupert Preston, Mike Watts, and Lucinda Whiteley, who wrote it.

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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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Howards End (film)

Howards End is a 1992 period romantic drama film directed by James Ivory, from a screenplay written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the 1910 novel of the same name by E. M. Forster.

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Ian Partridge

Ian Partridge (born 12 June 1938) is a retired English lyric tenor, whose repertoire ranged from Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, the Elizabethan lute songs, German, French and English songs, through to Schoenberg, Weill and Britten, and on to contemporary works.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Jane Horrocks

Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is a British actress. Prunella Scales and Jane Horrocks are English radio actresses and English voice actresses.

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Joe Orton

John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter.

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John Murray (publishing house)

John Murray is a Scottish publisher, known for the authors it has published in its long history including Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and Charles Darwin.

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Jonathan Dimbleby

Jonathan Dimbleby (born 31 July 1944) is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, author and historian.

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La gazza ladra

La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is a melodramma or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on La pie voleuse by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez.

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Lace Market Theatre

The Lace Market Theatre is a small, independent amateur theatre in Nottingham, England.

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Ladies of Letters

Ladies of Letters is a comedy series that ran for 13 years on BBC Radio 4; based on the series of books of the same name written by Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield, and starring Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Laxdale Hall

Laxdale Hall is a 1953 British romantic comedy film directed by John Eldridge and starring Ronald Squire, Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley and Sebastian Shaw, with Prunella Scales and Fulton Mackay in early roles.

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London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television (LWT) (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm from 1968 until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00.

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Mapp & Lucia (1985 TV series)

Mapp & Lucia is a British television series, set in the fictional Sussex coastal town of Tilling and based on three 1930s novels by E. F. Benson, beginning with Mapp and Lucia.

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Marriage Lines

Marriage Lines is a British television sitcom first broadcast between 1963 and 1966.

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Max Hastings

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard.

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Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor.

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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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Miss Bates

Miss Bates is a supporting character in Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma.

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Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories.

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Moira House School

Moira House School was an independent day and boarding school for girls aged 6 weeks to 18 years in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, from 1887 to 2020, but founded in Surrey in 1875.

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Narrowboat

A narrowboat is a particular type of canal boat, built to fit the narrow locks of the United Kingdom.

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NBCUniversal

NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and doing business as simply NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is a subsidiary of Comcast and is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Nina Bawden

Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer.

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Nottingham

Nottingham (locally) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.

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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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Oxbridge

Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most famous universities in the United Kingdom.

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P&O Cruises

P&O Cruises is a British cruise line based at Carnival House in Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc.

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813.

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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Richard Briers

Richard David Briers (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor whose five-decade career encompassed film, radio, stage and television.

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Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)

Richard Wilson (born Iain Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster.

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Ronnie Barker

Ronald William George Barker (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer.

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Room at the Top (1959 film)

Room at the Top is a 1959 British drama film based on the 1957 novel of the same name by John Braine.

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Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Samuel West

Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is an English actor, theatre director and narrator.

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Sara Sugarman

Sara Sugarman (born 13 October 1962) is a Welsh actress and filmmaker whose work includes Disney's Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) and Very Annie Mary (2001).

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screen One

Screen One is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and distributed by BBC Worldwide, that was transmitted on BBC One from 1989 to 1998.

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Seven of One

Seven of One, stylised as 7 of 1, is a British sitcom anthology series that aired on BBC2 in 1973.

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Short film

A short film is a film with a low running time.

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Silent Witness

Silent Witness is a British crime drama television series produced by the BBC that focuses on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

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Sitcom

A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.

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Smelling of Roses

Smelling of Roses was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Prunella Scales and written by Simon Brett.

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Stephen Moyer

Stephen John Moyer (né Emery; born 11 October 1969) is an English actor and film director.

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Stiff Upper Lips

Stiff Upper Lips is a 1997 film directed by Gary Sinyor and starring Sean Pertwee, Georgina Cates, Robert Portal, Samuel West, Prunella Scales, Peter Ustinov, and Brian Glover in his final film role.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Sybil Fawlty

Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers.

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Syfy

Syfy (a paraphrased neology of former name Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable television channel, which is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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References

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

Also known as Pru Scales, Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth, Scales, Prunella.

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British waterways activists

People from Mole Valley (district)

People with vascular dementia

Television personalities from Surrey

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