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Richard Whiteley, the Glossary

John Richard Whiteley (28 December 1943 – 26 June 2005) was an English presenter and journalist, best known for his twenty-three years as host of the game show Countdown.^[1]

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Deaths from endocarditis
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About a Boy (film)

About a Boy is a 2002 comedy-drama film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Hedges.

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Asthma

Asthma is a long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.

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Baildon

Baildon is a town and civil parish in the Bradford Metropolitan Borough in West Yorkshire, England and within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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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 News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bradford

Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Brian Plummer

Brian Plummer, also known as David Brian Plummer (11 September 1936 – 12 September 2003), was a British writer, teacher and dog breeder.

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On 12 October 1984 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attempted to assassinate members of the British government, including the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England.

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Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.

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Calendar (British TV programme)

ITV News Calendar is a British television news service broadcast and produced by ITV Yorkshire.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo, is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts.

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Carol Vorderman

Carol Jean Vorderman, (born 24 December 1960) is a Welsh broadcaster, media personality, and writer.

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Carole Hersee

Carole Hersee (born 25 November 1958) is an English costume designer who is best known for appearing in the centrepiece of the United Kingdom television Test Card F (and latterly J, W, and X), which aired on BBC Television from 1967 to 1998.

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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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Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Countdown (game show)

Countdown is a British game show involving word and mathematical tasks that began airing in November 1982.

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Criminal Cases Review Commission

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is the statutory body responsible for investigating alleged miscarriages of justice in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

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Daily Post (North Wales)

The Daily Post is a daily newspaper for the North Wales region of Wales.

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Deputy lieutenant

In the United Kingdom, a deputy lieutenant is a Crown appointment and one of several deputies to the lord-lieutenant of a lieutenancy area – an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county.

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Des chiffres et des lettres

Des chiffres et des lettres ("some numbers and some letters") is a French television programme.

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Des Lynam

Desmond Michael Lynam, (born 17 September 1942) is an Irish-born British television and radio presenter.

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Des Warren

Des Warren (10 October 1937 – 24 April 2004) was a British construction worker, trade union activist and – with Ricky Tomlinson – one of the Shrewsbury Two, convicted at Shrewsbury Crown Court for "conspiracy to intimidate" whilst picketing in Shropshire in 1972, and imprisoned for three years.

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Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.

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East Witton

East Witton is a village and civil parish in Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England.

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Eccleshill, Bradford

Eccleshill is an area, former village, and ward within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Emmerdale

Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989) is a British television soap opera that is broadcast on ITV.

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Endocarditis

Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Fat Friends

Fat Friends (also known as Kay Mellor’s Fat Friends) is a British drama that aired on ITV from 12 October 2000 to 24 March 2005, consisting of 25 episodes over four series.

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Ferret

The ferret (Mustela furo) is a small, domesticated species belonging to the family Mustelidae.

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Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances.

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Game show

A game show (or gameshow) is a genre of broadcast viewing entertainment where contestants compete in a game for rewards.

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Game show host

A game show host is an individual who manages a game show, introduces contestants, and asks quiz questions to test the knowledge of said contestants.

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Giggleswick School

Giggleswick School is a public school (English private boarding and day school) in Giggleswick, near Settle, North Yorkshire, England.

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Hallelujah! (TV series)

Hallelujah! is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television that aired on ITV from 29 April 1983 to 21 December 1984.

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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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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Inside Out (2002 TV programme)

Inside Out is the brand name for a number of regional television programmes in England that were broadcast on BBC One.

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ITN

Independent Television News (ITN) is a UK-based media production and broadcast journalism company.

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ITV Anglia

ITV Anglia, previously known as Anglia Television, is the ITV franchise holder for the East of England.

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ITV Yorkshire

ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and commonly referred to as just YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network.

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Jeremy Isaacs

Sir Jeremy Israel Isaacs (born 28 September 1932) is a Scottish television producer and executive, opera manager, and a recipient of many British Academy Television Awards and International Emmy Awards.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.

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Kathryn Apanowicz

Kathryn Apanowicz (born 3 June 1960) is a British actress and presenter. Richard Whiteley and Kathryn Apanowicz are English television presenters.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds General Infirmary

Leeds General Infirmary, also known as the LGI, is a large teaching hospital based in the centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and is part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

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Liverpool Daily Post

The Liverpool Post was a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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MI5

MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI).

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Michael Aspel

Michael Terence Aspel (born 12 January 1933) is a retired English television presenter and newsreader. Richard Whiteley and Michael Aspel are English game show hosts, English male journalists and English television presenters.

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My Family

My Family is a British sitcom created and initially co-written by Fred Barron, which was produced by DLT Entertainment and Rude Boy Productions, and broadcast by BBC One for eleven series between 2000 and 2011, with Christmas specials broadcast from 2002 onwards.

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Nickname

A nickname or nick, also known as a sobriquet, is a substitute for the proper name of a person, place or thing.

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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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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Pride (2014 film)

Pride is a 2014 historical comedy-drama film written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus.

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Pun

A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Ricky Tomlinson

Eric "Ricky" Tomlinson (born 26 September 1939) is an English actor.

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Russell Harty

Frederic Russell Harty (5 September 1934 – 8 June 1988) was an English television presenter of arts programmes and chat shows. Richard Whiteley and Russell Harty are English television presenters and Infectious disease deaths in England.

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SMTV Live

SMTV Live (an abbreviation of Saturday Morning Television Live, and also stylised as SM: LIVE) was a British Saturday morning children's television programme, produced by Blaze Television for ITV.

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Test Card F

Test Card F is a test card that was created by the BBC and used on television in the United Kingdom and in countries elsewhere in the world for more than four decades.

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The Big Breakfast

The Big Breakfast is a British breakfast light entertainment television programme that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 1992 to 2002, and as a revival from 2021 to 2022.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Yorkshire Post

The Yorkshire Post is a daily broadsheet newspaper, published in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

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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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Top Gear (2002 TV series)

Top Gear is a British motoring magazine and entertainment television programme.

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Top Gear test track

The Top Gear test track located at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, United Kingdom was used by the BBC automotive television programme Top Gear.

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True North Productions

True North Productions is an independent British television production company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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University of Dundee

The University of Dundee is a public research university based in Dundee, Scotland.

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Vision Action

Vision Action (formerly Vision Aid Overseas - VAO) is a registered charity in the United Kingdom, which provides optical aid and services to developing countries in Africa.

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West Riding of Yorkshire

The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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Wetwang

Wetwang is a Yorkshire Wolds village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, west of Driffield on the A166 road.

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Woodrow Wyatt

Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford (4 July 1918 – 7 December 1997) was a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster, close to the Queen Mother, Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch. Richard Whiteley and Woodrow Wyatt are English male journalists.

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References

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

Also known as John Richard Whiteley, Richard Whitely, Whiteley, Richard.

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See also

Deaths from endocarditis

Deputy Lieutenants of West Yorkshire

Mayors of places in Yorkshire and the Humber

People educated at Giggleswick School

People from Baildon

Television personalities from West Yorkshire

References