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Smashie and Nicey, the Glossary

Smashie and Nicey are comedy characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield's Television Programme.^[1]

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British sitcom characters
Fictional DJs
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Harry Enfield

Alan Freeman

Alan Leslie Freeman MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006), nicknamed "Fluff", was an Australian-born British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years, best known for presenting Pick of the Pops from 1961 to 2000.

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Archetype

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.

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Asexuality

Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity.

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Bachman–Turner Overdrive

Bachman–Turner Overdrive, often abbreviated BTO, are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, founded by three brothers: Randy Bachman, Robbie Bachman and Tim Bachman; along with Fred Turner, in 1973.

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Band Aid (band)

Band Aid was the collective name of a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists.

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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 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is a British national radio station 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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Bill Grundy

William Grundy (18 May 1923 – 9 February 1993) was an English journalist and broadcaster.

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Blue Peter

Blue Peter is a British children's television entertainment programme created by John Hunter Blair.

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Bobby Goldsboro

Robert Charles Goldsboro (born January 18, 1941) is an American pop and country singer and songwriter.

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Brentford

Brentford is a suburban town in West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.

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Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.

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Closeted

Closeted and in the closet are metaphors for LGBT people who have not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and sexual behavior.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is a British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry in response to the famine in Ethiopia.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

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Dale Winton

Dale Jonathan Winton (22 May 1955 – 18 April 2018) was an English radio DJ and television presenter.

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Dave Lee Travis

David Patrick Griffin (born 25 May 1945), known professionally as Dave Lee Travis, is an English former disc jockey, and former television presenter.

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David Jensen

David Allan "Kid" Jensen (born 4 July 1950) is a Canadian-born British radio DJ and television presenter.

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Do They Know It's Christmas?

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a charity song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia.

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Fade (audio engineering)

In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the level of an audio signal.

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Freddie and the Dreamers

Freddie and the Dreamers were an English beat band that had a number of hit records between 1962 and 1965.

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Frensham

Frensham is a village in Surrey, England, next to the A287 road, WSW of Guildford, the county town.

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Gold (British TV channel)

Gold is a British pay television channel from the UKTV network that was launched in late 1992 as UK Gold before it was rebranded UKTV Gold in 2004.

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Graveyard slot

A graveyard slot (or death slot) is a time period in which a television audience is very small compared to other times of the day, and therefore broadcast programming is considered far less important.

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Harry Enfield

Henry Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer and director.

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Harry Enfield & Chums

Harry Enfield & Chums (originally titled Harry Enfield's Television Programme) is a British sketch show starring Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke. Smashie and Nicey and Harry Enfield & Chums are Harry Enfield.

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History of the Jews in Russia

The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years.

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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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Honey (Bobby Goldsboro song)

"Honey", also known as "Honey (I Miss You)", is a song written by Bobby Russell.

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Jimmy Savile

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English media personality and DJ.

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John Birt, Baron Birt

John Birt, Baron Birt (born 10 December 1944) is a British television executive and businessman.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist.

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Kidult

A kidult is an adult whose interests or media consumption is traditionally seen as more suitable for children.

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Lad culture

Lad culture (also the new lad, laddism) was a media-driven, principally British and Irish subculture of the 1990s and the early 2000s.

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List of on-air resignations

This is a list of on-air resignations.

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Mark Goodier

Mark Goodier (born 9 June 1961) is a British radio disc jockey best known for his time on BBC Radio 1 between 1987 and 2002.

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Mark Lamarr

Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones; 7 January 1967) is an English comedian, radio disc jockey and television presenter.

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Matthew Bannister

Richard Matthew Bannister (born 16 March 1957) is a British media executive and broadcaster.

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Mike Read

Michael David Kenneth Read (born 1 March 1947) is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter.

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Noel Edmonds

Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948) is an English television presenter, radio DJ, writer, producer, and businessman.

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Noel's House Party

Noel's House Party is a BBC light entertainment series that was hosted by Noel Edmonds.

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Offshore radio

Offshore radio is radio broadcasting from ships or fixed maritime structures.

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Operation Yewtree

Operation Yewtree was a British police investigation into sexual abuse allegations, predominantly the abuse of children, against the English media personality Jimmy Savile and others.

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Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.

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Paul Whitehouse

Paul Julian Whitehouse (born 20 May 1958) is a Welsh actor, writer, presenter and comedian.

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Penge

Penge is a suburb of South East London, England, now in the London Borough of Bromley, west of Bromley, north east of Croydon and south east of Charing Cross.

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Peter Powell (DJ)

Peter James Barnard-Powell (born 24 March 1951) is an English former disc jockey, popular on BBC Radio 1 in the late 1970s and 1980s, as well as a television presenter for the BBC music chart programme Top of the Pops.

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Pick of the Pops

Pick of the Pops is a long-running BBC Radio programme; it was based originally on the Top 20 from the UK Singles Chart and was first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 4 October 1955.

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Q (magazine)

Q was a popular music magazine.

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Radio Caroline

Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and Alan Crawford initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975.

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Simon Bates

Simon Philip Bates (born 17 December 1946) is an English disc jockey and radio presenter.

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Simon Mayo

Simon Andrew Hicks Mayo (born 21 September 1958) is an English radio presenter and author who worked for BBC Radio from 1982 until 2022.

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Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians.

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Terry Christian

Terence Christian (born 8 May 1960) is an English broadcaster, journalist and author.

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Tessa Wyatt

Tessa Wyatt is an English actress best known for her role as Vicky Tripp (née Nicholls) on the ITV sitcom Robin's Nest.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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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 Kenny Everett Video Show

The Kenny Everett Video Show (later renamed The Kenny Everett Video Cassette) is a British television comedy and music programme that was made by Thames Television for ITV from 3 July 1978 to 21 May 1981.

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Tony Blackburn

Antony Kenneth Blackburn (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey, singer and TV presenter, whose career spans 60 years.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Trait theory

In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality.

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Trophy wife

A trophy wife is a wife who is regarded as a status symbol for the husband.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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