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Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor.[1]

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  1. 317 relations: "Rommel?" "Gunner Who?", A Book of Milliganimals, A Kid for Two Farthings (film), A Show Called Fred, Absolute pitch, Ad libitum, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (film), Agnosticism, Ahmednagar, Air gun, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972 film), André Deutsch, André Morell, Associated London Scripts, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Autocar (magazine), Avenue House, Badjelly the Witch, Badjelly's Bad Christmas, Barney (film), Barry Humphries, Basic Education High School No. 6 Botataung, Battle of Monte Cassino, BBC Home Service, BBC News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, BBC Scotland, BBC Two, Benson & Hedges, Bernard Braden, Bernard Miles, Bexhill-on-Sea, BFBS Live Events, Bill Kerr, Bill Owen (actor), Bing Crosby, Bipolar disorder, BL 7.2-inch howitzer, BL 9.2-inch howitzer, Black comedy, Blue plaque, Bobby Limb, Bombardier (rank), BP, Bridge on the River Wye, Brisbane Water, British Army, British Comedy Guide, ... Expand index (267 more) »

  2. 20th-century British memoirists
  3. 21st-century British comedians
  4. British humorous poets
  5. British radio writers
  6. Deaths from kidney failure in the United Kingdom
  7. Irish people with disabilities
  8. People from Ahmednagar
  9. The Goon Show

"Rommel?" "Gunner Who?"

"Rommel?" "Gunner Who?": A Confrontation in the Desert is Spike Milligan's second volume of war autobiography, published in 1974, with Jack Hobbs credited as an editor.

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A Book of Milliganimals

A Book of Milliganimals is a children's book by Spike Milligan, first published in 1968.

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A Kid for Two Farthings (film)

A Kid For Two Farthings is a 1955 British comedy-drama film directed by Carol Reed.

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A Show Called Fred

A Show Called Fred is a sketch comedy series best known for being an early television work by Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, then both regular performers on the BBC Home Service as two-thirds of the cast of The Goon Show.

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Absolute pitch

Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone.

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Ad libitum

In music and other performing arts, the phrase ad libitum (from Latin for 'at one's pleasure' or 'as you desire'), often shortened to "ad lib" (as an adjective or adverb) or "ad-lib" (as a verb or noun), refers to various forms of improvisation.

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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, published in 1971, is the first volume of Spike Milligan's war memoirs.

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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (film)

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is a 1973 British comedy film adaptation of the first volume of Spike Milligan's autobiography.

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Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.

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Ahmednagar

Ahmednagar (officially Ahilya Nagar) is a city in, and the headquarters of, the Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India, about northeast of Pune and from Aurangabad.

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Air gun

An air gun or airgun is a gun that uses energy from compressed air or other gases that are mechanically pressurized and then released to propel and accelerate projectiles, similar to the principle of the primitive blowgun.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972 film)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a 1972 British musical film directed by Australian filmmaker William Sterling, based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel of the same name and its 1871 sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.

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André Deutsch

André Deutsch (15 November 1917 – 11 April 2000) was a Hungarian-born British publisher who founded an eponymous publishing company in 1951.

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André Morell

Cecil André Mesritz (20 August 1909 – 28 November 1978), known professionally as André Morell, was an English actor.

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Associated London Scripts

Associated London Scripts (ALS) was a writers' agency organised as a co-operative which involved many leading comedy and television writers of the 1950s and 1960s. Spike Milligan and Associated London Scripts are the Goon Show.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Autocar (magazine)

Autocar (stylized in all caps) is a weekly British automobile magazine published by Haymarket Media Group.

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Avenue House

Avenue House (also known as Stephens House) is a large Victorian mansion (Grade II listed) situated on East End Road in Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet.

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Badjelly the Witch

Badjelly the Witch is a brief handwritten, illustrated story by Spike Milligan, created for his children, then printed in 1973.

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Badjelly's Bad Christmas

Badjelly's Bad Christmas was a musical created and performed by the Chickenshed Theatre Company, based on the works of Spike Milligan.

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Barney (film)

Barney is a 1976 Australian film for children set during the Convict Era.

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Barry Humphries

John Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, actor, author and satirist.

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Basic Education High School No. 6 Botataung

Basic Education High School (BEHS) No.

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Battle of Monte Cassino

The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome, was a series of four military assaults by the Allies against German forces in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II.

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BBC Home Service

The BBC Home Service was a national and regional radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 4.

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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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BBC Radio 4

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

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BBC Radiophonic Workshop

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was one of the sound effects units of the BBC, created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for radio and, later, television.

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BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: BBC Alba) is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.

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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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Benson & Hedges

Benson & Hedges is a British brand of cigarettes owned by American conglomerate Altria.

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Bernard Braden

Bernard Chastey Braden (16 May 1916 – 2 February 1993) was a Canadian-born British actor and comedian, who is best known for his appearances in UK television and radio shows. Spike Milligan and Bernard Braden are 20th-century British comedians, British male comedians, British male stage actors and British male television actors.

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Bernard Miles

Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE (27 September 190714 June 1991) was an English character actor, writer and director. Spike Milligan and Bernard Miles are actors awarded knighthoods.

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Bexhill-on-Sea

Bexhill-on-Sea (often shortened to Bexhill) is a seaside town and civil parish in the Rother District in the county of East Sussex in South East England.

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BFBS Live Events

BFBS Live Events (formerly Combined Services Entertainment (CSE) until 2 March 2020) is the live entertainment arm of the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) (and prior to March 2020 the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC), a registered British charity).

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Bill Kerr

William Henry Kerr (10 June 1922 – 28 August 2014) was a British and Australian actor, comedian, and vaudevillian.

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Bill Owen (actor)

William John Owen Rowbotham, (14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999) was an English actor and songwriter.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality, and businessman.

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Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last from days to weeks.

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BL 7.2-inch howitzer

The BL 7.2-inch howitzer was a heavy artillery piece used by the British Army throughout the Second World War.

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BL 9.2-inch howitzer

The Ordnance BL 9.2-inch howitzer was a heavy siege howitzer that formed the principal counter-battery equipment of British forces in France in World War I. It equipped a substantial number of siege batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery. During World War II a limited number were used in the Battle of France, with the remainder being kept in the United Kingdom.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Bobby Limb

Robert Limb AO, OBE (10 November 1924 – 11 September 1999) was an Australian-born entertainment pioneer, comedian, band leader and musician and legend of radio, television and theatre of the 1960s and 1970s, he also founded the film and TV production company NLT Productions, with Jack Neary and Les Tinker.

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Bombardier (rank)

Bombardier is a military rank that has existed since the 16th century in artillery regiments of various armies, such as in the British Army and the Prussian Army.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Bridge on the River Wye

Bridge on the River Wye is an album by members of the British comedy group The Goon Show and other humorists.

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Brisbane Water

Brisbane Water is a wave-dominated barrier estuary located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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British Comedy Guide

British Comedy Guide or BCG (formerly the British Sitcom Guide or BSG) is a British website covering British comedies.

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British Indian Army

The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, was the main military force of the British Indian Empire until 1947.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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British royal family

The British royal family comprises King Charles III and his close relations.

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British rule in Burma

The British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.

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British Union of Fascists

The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a British fascist political party formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley.

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Brockley

Brockley is a district and an electoral ward of south London, England, in the London Borough of Lewisham south-east of Charing Cross.

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Brownface

Brownface is a social phenomenon in which a white or light-skinned person attempts to portray themselves as a "brown" person of color, but less overtly and with a lighter complexion than traditional blackface.

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Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

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Calling All Cars (1954 film)

Calling All Cars is a 1954 short film directed by Maclean Rogers, starring Cardew Robinson and John Fitzgerald.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Canterbury

Canterbury is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974.

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Cardew Robinson

Douglas John Cardew Robinson (14 August 1917 – 28 December 1992) was a British comic whose career was rooted in the music hall and Gang Shows.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Central Coast (New South Wales)

The Central Coast is a peri-urban region lying on the Pacific Ocean in northern-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

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Charles Allen (writer)

Charles Robin Allen (2 January 1940 – 16 August 2020) was a British freelance writer and popular historian from London.

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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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Chickenshed

Chickenshed (also known as Chicken Shed or the Chicken Shed Theatre Company) is a British theatre company based in Southgate, London.

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Chipping Barnet

Chipping Barnet or High Barnet is a suburban market town in north London, forming part of the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a suburban development built around a 12th-century settlement, and is located north-northwest of Charing Cross, east from Borehamwood, west from Enfield and south from Potters Bar.

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Cinderella

"Cinderella", or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Commonwealth Bank

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), also known as Commonwealth Bank or simply CommBank, is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

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Concorde

Concorde is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).

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Conscription

Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.

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Cornet

The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.

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Count Jim Moriarty

Count Jim Moriarty (also called Count Jim Moriarty of the House of Roland) is a character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy The Goon Show.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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Crazy Gang (comedy group)

The Crazy Gang were a group of British entertainers, formed in the early 1930s.

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Curry and Chips

Curry and Chips is a British television sitcom broadcast in 1969 which was produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network.

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Dallas (1978 TV series)

Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991.

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Denis Norden

Denis Mostyn Norden (born Denis Moss Cohen; 6 February 1922 – 19 September 2018) was an English comedy writer and television presenter.

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Derek Roy (25 August 1922 – 15 March 1981) was an English comedian, whose public profile was at its greatest in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Dhol

Dhol can refer to any one of a number of similar types of double-headed drum widely used, with regional variations, throughout the Indian subcontinent.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World is a 1973 British children's fantasy-adventure comedy film starring Jim Dale, and directed by Joseph McGrath.

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Discharge (sentence)

A discharge is a type of sentence imposed by a court whereby no punishment is imposed.

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Domestic violence

Domestic violence is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation.

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Don't Spare the Horses

Don't Spare the Horses was a British television comedy series which aired on the BBC during 1952.

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Dot and the Kangaroo (film)

Dot and the Kangaroo is a 1977 Australian live-action/animated musical drama film which combines animation and live-action.

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Down Among the Z Men

Down Among the Z Men is a 1952 black-and-white British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring the Goons: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine and Harry Secombe.

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Dumb Woman's Lane

Dumb Woman's Lane is a street located in the civil parish of Udimore, near Winchelsea in East Sussex, England.

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Duncan Lamont (musician)

Duncan Lamont (4 July 1931 – 2 July 2019) was a saxophonist, composer and bandleader active for many years in London's Soho jazz scene.

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Eccles (character)

Eccles, also referred to as 'The Famous Eccles' or 'Mad Dan Eccles', is the name of a comedy character, created and performed by Spike Milligan, from the 1950s BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show.

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Ed Welch

Edward William Welch (born 22 October 1947) is an English songwriter, composer, conductor and arranger.

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Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard (born Edward John Izzard; 7 February 1962), also known as Suzy Izzard, is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist. Spike Milligan and Eddie Izzard are 20th-century British comedians and 21st-century British comedians.

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Edward Lear

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. Spike Milligan and Edward Lear are British humorous poets, British surrealist artists, children's poets and writers who illustrated their own writing.

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Edward Tudor-Pole

Edward Felix Tudor-Pole (also known as Edward Tenpole; born 6 December 1955) is an English musician, television presenter and actor.

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Electrical transcription

Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting,Browne, Ray B. and Browne, Pat, Eds.

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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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Epitaph

An epitaph is a short text honoring a deceased person.

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Eric Sykes

Eric Sykes (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes are the Goon Show.

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Erin Pizzey

Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (born 19 February 1939) is a British ex-feminist, men's rights activist and advocate against domestic violence, and novelist.

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Fantastic Animation Festival

Fantastic Animation Festival is a package film of animation segments, set mostly to music and released in theaters in 1977.

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Finchley

Finchley is a large district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Barnet. Finchley is on high ground, north of Charing Cross. Nearby districts include: Golders Green, Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, Whetstone, Mill Hill and Hendon. It is predominantly a residential suburb, with three town centres: North Finchley, East Finchley and Finchley Church End (Finchley Central).

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First Army (United Kingdom)

The First Army was a formation of the British Army that existed during the First and Second World Wars.

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Flag of Ireland

The national flag of Ireland (bratach na hÉireann), frequently referred to in Ireland as 'the tricolour' (an trídhathach) and elsewhere as the Irish tricolour is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist), white and orange.

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Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel (1990 radio series)

Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel is a BBC Radio 4 1990 situation comedy radio show, adapted from a 1932 American radio show of the same name.

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Foley (filmmaking)

In filmmaking, Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to films, videos, and other media in post-production to enhance audio quality.

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Frank Dunlop (director)

Frank Dunlop (born 15 February 1927) is a British theatre director.

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George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician.

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Ghost in the Noonday Sun

Ghost in the Noonday Sun is a 1974 British comedy film directed by Peter Medak starring Peter Sellers, Anthony Franciosa and Spike Milligan.

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Goodbye Soldier

Goodbye Soldier is Spike Milligan's sixth volume of autobiography.

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Gormenghast (TV serial)

Gormenghast is a four-episode television series based on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake.

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Gosford

Gosford is a waterfront city at the northern end of Brisbane Water on the Central Coast in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Graham Chapman

Graham Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer.

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Gryphon (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

The Gryphon is a fictional character devised by Lewis Carroll in the popular 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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Harold Pinter Theatre

The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011,, BBC News, 7 September 2011, accessed 8 September 2011.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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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. Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe are actors awarded knighthoods, royal Artillery soldiers and the Goon Show.

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Hattie Jacques

Hattie Jacques (born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen.

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The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames.

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Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister

Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister are two characters from the 1950s United Kingdom radio comedy series The Goon Show.

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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.

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History of the World, Part I

History of the World, Part I is a 1981 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Mel Brooks.

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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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Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers.

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In Sickness and in Health

In Sickness and in Health is a BBC television sitcom that ran between 1 September 1985 and 3 April 1992.

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The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 and limited satellite television regulation – cable television was the responsibility of the Cable Authority) – and commercial and independent radio broadcasts.

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Invasion Quartet

Invasion Quartet is a 1961 British World War II comedy-drama film directed by Jay Lewis and starring Bill Travers and Spike Milligan.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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Italian campaign (World War II)

The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945.

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ITV Granada

ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man.

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Ivan Goncharov

Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (also; p; –) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story (1847, also translated as A Common Story), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869, also translated as Malinovka Heights).

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Jim Dale

Jim Dale (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, composer, director, narrator, singer and songwriter.

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Jimmy Grafton

James Douglas Grafton (19 May 1916 – 2 June 1986) was a producer, writer and theatrical agent. Spike Milligan and Jimmy Grafton are the Goon Show.

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Joan Greenwood

Joan Mary Waller Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 28 February 1987) was an English actress.

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John Antrobus

John Arthur Antrobus (born 2 July 1933) is an English playwright and screenwriter.

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John Bluthal

John Bluthal (born Isaac Bluthal; 12 August 1929 – 15 November 2018) was a Polish-born Australian actor and comedian, noted for his six-decade career internationally in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Spike Milligan and John Bluthal are British male comedians, British male film actors, British male radio actors, British male stage actors, British male television actors and British male voice actors.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. Spike Milligan and John Cleese are British surrealist artists.

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John Goldschmidt

John Goldschmidt (born 1943) is a British-Austrian film director and producer.

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Johnny Speight

Johnny Speight (2 June 1920 – 5 July 1998) was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms.

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Katana

A is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands.

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Kathy Lette

Kathryn Marie Lette (born 11 November 1958) is an Australian and British author.

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Kellogg's

Kellanova Company, formerly known as the Kellogg Company and commonly known as Kellogg's, is an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, US.

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Ken Russell

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was a British film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style.

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Kidney failure

Kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD), is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as either acute kidney failure, which develops rapidly and may resolve; and chronic kidney failure, which develops slowly and can often be irreversible.

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Larry Stephens

Lawrence Geoffrey Stephens (16 July 1923p.14926 January 1959) was a BBC radio scriptwriter, best remembered for co-writing The Goon Show with Spike Milligan. Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens are British radio writers and the Goon Show.

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Let's Go Crazy (film)

Let's Go Crazy is a 1951 British short comedy film directed by Alan Cullimore.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest. Spike Milligan and Lewis Carroll are writers who illustrated their own writing.

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Literary nonsense

Literary nonsense (or nonsense literature) is a broad categorization of literature that balances elements that make sense with some that do not, with the effect of subverting language conventions or logical reasoning.

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Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a sly wolf.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Borough of Lewisham

Lewisham is a London borough in south-east London, England.

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Lynsey de Paul

Lynsey de Paul (born Lyndsey Monckton Rubin; 11 June 1948 – 1 October 2014) was an English singer-songwriter and record producer.

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Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith)

The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a nonprofit theatre on Lyric Square, off King Street, Hammersmith, London.

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Major Bloodnok

Major Denis Bloodnok is a fictional character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy The Goon Show.

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Man About the House (film)

Man About the House is a 1974 British comedy film directed by John Robins and starring Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett,Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy.

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Marlowe Theatre

The Marlowe Theatre is a 1,200-seat theatre in Canterbury named after playwright Christopher Marlowe, who was born and attended school in the city.

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Maureen Lipman

Dame Maureen Diane Lipman (born 10 May 1946) is an English actress, columnist and comedian.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Meritorious Service Medal (United Kingdom)

The Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) is a British medal awarded to Senior Non Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers of the British armed forces for long and meritorious service.

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Mermaid Theatre

The Mermaid Theatre was a theatre encompassing the site of Puddle Dock and Curriers' Alley at Blackfriars in the City of London, and the first built in the City since the time of Shakespeare.

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Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. Spike Milligan and Mervyn Peake are writers who illustrated their own writing.

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Michael Barrymore

Michael Ciaran Parker (born 4 May 1952), known by his stage name Michael Barrymore, is an English comedian and television presenter of game shows and light entertainment programmes on British television in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Spike Milligan and Michael Barrymore are BBC people.

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Michael Bentine

Michael Bentine, (born Michael James Bentin; 26 January 1922General Register Office for England and Wales – Birth Register for the March Quarter of 1922, Watford Registration District, Reference 3a 1478, listed as "Michael J. Bentin", mother's maiden name as "Dawkins". – 26 November 1996)General Register Office for England and Wales – Death Register for November 1996, Sutton Registration District, Reference C6B 296, listed as "Michael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922. Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine are the Goon Show.

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Michael Parkinson

Sir Michael Parkinson (28 March 1935 – 16 August 2023) was an English television presenter, broadcaster, journalist and author.

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Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike)

Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike), also known as "The Milligna Show", was a radio comedy sketch show, written by Spike Milligan, performed by John Bluthal, Vilma Hollingbery, and Milligan himself.

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Milton Shulman

Milton Shulman (1 September 1913 – 24 May 2004) was a Canadian author, film and theatre critic who was based in the United Kingdom from 1943.

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Mini

The Mini (developed as ADO15) is a small, two-door, four-seat car produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors, from 1959 until 2000.

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Monty Python

Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Spike Milligan and Monty Python are British parodists and British surrealist artists.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, who became known collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons".

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Monty Python's Life of Brian

Monty Python's Life of Brian (also known as Life of Brian) is a 1979 British comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin).

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Monty: His Part in My Victory

Monty: His Part in My Victory, Spike Milligan's third volume of war memoirs.

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Murray Melvin

Murray Melvin (10 August 1932 – 14 April 2023) was an English actor.

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Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall

Spike Milligan's fourth volume of war memoirs, Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall, spans the landing in Salerno, Italy on 23 September 1943 to his being invalided.

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Muzak

Muzak is an American brand of background music played in retail stores and other public establishments.

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National Comedy Awards

The National Comedy Awards (known as the British Comedy Awards from 1990 to 2014) is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom, celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.

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National World

National World plc is a British multimedia company based in Leeds, England.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Neil Shand

Neil Hodgson Shand (3 March 1934 – 14 April 2018) was a British television comedy writer. Spike Milligan and Neil Shand are British comedy writers.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New Theatre Quarterly

New Theatre Quarterly (NTQ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering theatre studies.

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No One's Gonna Change Our World

No One's Gonna Change Our World is a charity album released in the United Kingdom on 12 December 1969 for the benefit of the World Wildlife Fund.

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Nonsense verse

Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme.

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North African campaign

The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers.

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Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom)

The Oath of Allegiance (Judicial or Official Oath) is a promise to be loyal to the British monarch, and their heirs and successors, sworn by certain public servants in the United Kingdom, and also by newly naturalised subjects in citizenship ceremonies.

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Obituary

An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person.

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Oblomov

Oblomov (Обломов) is the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859.

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Ofsted

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.

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Oh In Colour

Oh In Colour was a comedy television sketch programme broadcast on BBC 2 in 1970.

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On the Ning Nang Nong

"On the Ning Nang Nong" is a poem by the comedian Spike Milligan featured in his 1959 book Silly Verse For Kids.

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One-line joke

A one-liner is a joke that is delivered in a single line.

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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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Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories, personal bravery, achievement, or service are rewarded with honours.

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Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980), was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.

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Peace Work

The seventh volume of Spike Milligan's war memoirs, Peace Work, was first published in September, 1991, five years after the sixth volume Goodbye Soldier.

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Penny Points to Paradise

Penny Points to Paradise is a 1951 comedy feature film directed by Tony Young and starring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers of The Goon Show in their feature film debut.

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian. Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers are the Goon Show.

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Planters

Planters Nut & Chocolate Company is an American snack food company now owned by Hormel Foods.

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Play School (Australian TV series)

Play School is an Australian educational television show for children produced by the educational department of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), based on the original British version created by Joy Whitby, with many of the presenters former school teachers, whilst others being a mix of well known stage and screen actors and musicians.

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Postman's Knock (film)

Postman's Knock is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Robert Lynn starring Spike Milligan, Barbara Shelley, John Wood and Warren Mitchell.

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Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru,; Princeps Cambriae/Walliae) is a title traditionally given to the male heir apparent to the English, and later British, throne.

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 19219 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

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Private Eye

Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961.

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Puckoon

Puckoon is a comic novel by Spike Milligan, first published in 1963.

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Pune

Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.

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Puppet

A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer.

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Q... (TV series)

Q... is a surreal television comedy sketch show written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand, and starring Spike Milligan with supporting players, usually including Julia Breck, John Bluthal, Bob Todd, and John Wells.

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Racism

Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Radio Luxembourg

Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg.

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Ray Barrett

Raymond Charles Barrett (2 May 19278 September 2009) was an Australian actor.

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Regimental sergeant major

Regimental sergeant major (RSM) is an appointment that may be held by a warrant officer (WO) in the British Army, the Royal Marines, and the armies of many other Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations.

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Rentadick

Rentadick is a 1972 British comedy film, directed by Jim Clark and starring James Booth, Richard Briers, Julie Ege, Ronald Fraser and Donald Sinden.

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Richard Lester

Richard Lester Liebman (born January 19, 1932) is a retired American film director based in the United Kingdom, famous for his comedic and campy style of shooting movies and for his work in both US and UK cinema. He is best known for directing the Beatles' films A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and the superhero films Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983).

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Richard Wiseman

Richard J. Wiseman (born 17 September 1966) is a professor of the public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Robert Graves

Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. Spike Milligan and Robert Graves are people with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Room 101 (British TV series)

Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities are invited to discuss their pet hates and persuade the host to consign those hates to oblivion in Room 101, a location whose name was inspired by the torture room in George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which reputedly contained "the worst thing in the world".

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Roy Hudd

Roy Hudd, OBE (16 May 1936 – 15 March 2020) was an English comedian, actor, presenter, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment.

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Royal Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises thirteen Regular Army regiments, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and five Army Reserve regiments.

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Rye, East Sussex

Rye is a town and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede.

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Saville Theatre

ODEON Covent Garden is a four-screen cinema in the heart of London's West End.

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Sean Hughes (10 November 1965 – 16 October 2017) was a British-born Irish comedian, writer and actor.

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Shell shock

Shell shock is a term that originated during World War I to describe the type of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that many soldiers experienced during the war, before PTSD was officially recognized.

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Signaller

A signaller, signalman, colloquially referred to as a radioman or signaleer in the armed forces is a specialist soldier, sailor or airman responsible for military communications.

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Silly Verse for Kids

Silly Verse for Kids is a collection of humorous poems, limericks and drawings for children by Spike Milligan, first published by Dennis Dobson in 1959.

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Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon

Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon (also known by the shorter title of Sir Nobonk and the... Dragon) is a 1982 comedy novel written by Spike Milligan, and the fourth picture book by Milligan after The Bald Twit Lion, Badjelly the Witch and Dip the Puppy.

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Six-Five Special

Six-Five Special is a British television programme launched in February 1957 when both television and rock and roll were in their infancy in Britain.

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Son of Fred

Son of Fred is the successor series to The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d and A Show Called Fred.

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Spike Jones

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician, bandleader and conductor specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music.

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Spike Milligan

Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. Spike Milligan and Spike Milligan are 20th-century British comedians, 20th-century British memoirists, 20th-century British poets, 21st-century British comedians, actors awarded knighthoods, BBC people, British Book Award winners, British comedy writers, British humorous poets, British male comedians, British male dramatists and playwrights, British male film actors, British male radio actors, British male stage actors, British male television actors, British male voice actors, British parodists, British radio writers, British surrealist artists, Burials in East Sussex, children's poets, deaths from kidney failure in the United Kingdom, Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Irish people of English descent, Irish people with disabilities, military personnel of British India, people from Ahmednagar, people with bipolar disorder, people with post-traumatic stress disorder, royal Artillery soldiers, the Goon Show and writers who illustrated their own writing.

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Squire Trelawney

Squire John Trelawney is a supporting character from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.

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St John's College, Oxford

St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.

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Statelessness

In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law".

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and writer. Spike Milligan and Stephen Fry are people with bipolar disorder.

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Super Gran

Super Gran is a Scottish fictional series about a grandmother with superpowers.

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Superman

Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Suspect (1960 film)

Suspect (U.S. title: The Risk) is a 1960 British 'B' thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and John Boulting and starring Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen and Donald Pleasence.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Sykes and a...

Sykes and a... is a black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC 1 from 1960 to 1965.

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Takin' Over the Asylum

Takin' Over the Asylum is a six-part BBC Scotland television drama about a hospital radio station in a Glasgow psychiatric hospital.

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Tanganyika groundnut scheme

The Tanganyika groundnut scheme, or East Africa groundnut scheme, was a failed attempt by the British government to cultivate tracts of its African trust territory Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania) with peanuts.

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Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American–born British filmmaker, comedian, collage animator and actor. Spike Milligan and Terry Gilliam are 20th-century British comedians, 21st-century British comedians, British comedy writers, British male comedians, British male film actors and British surrealist artists.

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Thames Television

Thames Television, commonly simplified to just Thames, was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.

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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie is a 1972 Australian comedy film directed by Bruce Beresford (in his feature film directorial debut) and starring Barry Crocker and Barry Humphries.

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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 Bed Sitting Room (film)

The Bed Sitting Room is a 1969 British black comedy film directed by Richard Lester, starring an ensemble cast of British comic actors, and based on the play of the same name.

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The Bedsitting Room (play)

The Bedsitting Room is a satirical play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus.

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The Big Freeze (film)

The Big Freeze is a 1993 featurette-length film written and directed by Eric Sykes.

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The Bill Hall Trio

The Bill Hall Trio was a musical comedy act originally consisting of Bill Hall (violin), Johnny Mulgrew (double bass) and Spike Milligan (guitar).

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The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn (also known as Gone Goon) is a 1956 British short comedy film directed by Joseph Sterling and starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Dick Emery.

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The Cherry Picker

The Cherry Picker (also known as The Quiet Life), is a 1972 British drama film directed by Peter Curran and starring Lulu, Bob Sherman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Spike Milligan, Patrick Cargill, Jack Hulbert, Fiona Curzon, Terry-Thomas and Robert Hutton.

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The Devils (film)

The Devils is a 1971 historical drama horror film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell, and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed.

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The Goon Show

The Goon Show is a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme. Spike Milligan and the Goon Show are British surrealist artists.

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The Great McGonagall (film)

The Great McGonagall is a 1974 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Julia Foster.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1978 British comedy film spoofing the 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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The Idiot Weekly

The Idiot Weekly (1958–1962) was a radio program made by the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

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The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d was the first real attempt to translate the humour of The Goon Show to television.

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The Last Goon Show of All

The Last Goon Show of All is a special edition of the BBC Radio comedy programme The Goon Show commissioned as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the BBC. Spike Milligan and the Last Goon Show of All are the Goon Show.

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The Last Remake of Beau Geste

The Last Remake of Beau Geste is a 1977 American historical comedy film directed, co-written and starring Marty Feldman.

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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 biographical film about the life of English comedian Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis's book of the same name.

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The Looney: An Irish Fantasy

The Looney: An Irish Fantasy is a comic novel by Spike Milligan.

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The Magic Christian (film)

The Magic Christian is a 1969 British satirical farce black comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski.

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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British sketch comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark.

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The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine

The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine is a 1971 comedy-variety sketch series, starring British comedian Marty Feldman.

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The Melting Pot (TV series)

The Melting Pot is a British television situation comedy starring Spike Milligan.

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The Milligan Papers

The Milligan Papers was a BBC radio comedy show, written by John Antrobus and starring Spike Milligan.

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The Muppet Show

The Muppet Show is a variety sketch comedy television series created by Jim Henson and starring the Muppets.

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The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything is a collection of television comedy sketches, produced in 1999, broadcast in two parts on 2 and 4 January 2000 on BBC One.

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The Omar Khayyam Show

The Omar Khayyam Show was a 1963 BBC radio comedy programme, written by Spike Milligan based on six episodes of his The Idiot Weekly made for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1958–1962.

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The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town

The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was a 1971 episode of LWT's Six Dates with Barker that was written by Spike Milligan and later adapted by Ronnie Barker for The Two Ronnies sketch show in 1976.

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The Ratties

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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film is a 1959 British sketch comedy short film directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers, in collaboration with Bruce Lacey.

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The Sooty Show

The Sooty Show is a British children's television series, created by Harry Corbett, and produced for the BBC from 1955 to 1967, and then for ITV from 1968 until 1992.

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The Sun (United Kingdom)

The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch's News Corp. It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner.

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The Telegoons

The Telegoons is a comedy puppet show, adapted from the highly esteemed and successful BBC radio comedy show of the 1950s, The Goon Show produced by Tony Young for BBC television and first shown during 1963 and 1964. Spike Milligan and the Telegoons are the Goon Show.

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The Three Musketeers (1973 live-action film)

The Three Musketeers (also known as The Three Musketeers (The Queen's Diamonds)) is a 1973 swashbuckler film based on the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas.

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The Times

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

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The Two Ronnies

The Two Ronnies is a British television comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett.

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The World of Beachcomber

The World of Beachcomber was a surreal television comedy show produced by the BBC inspired by the Beachcomber column in the Daily Express newspaper.

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Till Death Us Do Part

Till Death Us Do Part is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975.

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Tina May

Daphne Christina May (30 March 1961 – 26 March 2022), known professionally as Tina May, was an English jazz vocalist.

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Tiswas

Tiswas (an acronym of "Today Is Saturday: Watch And Smile") was a British children's television series that originally aired on Saturday mornings from 5 January 1974 to 3 April 1982 and was produced for the ITV network by ATV.

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for BoysHammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion, Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan..) is both an 1883 adventure novel and a historical novel set in the 1700s by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of "buccaneers and buried gold".

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Trespasser

In the law of tort, property, and criminal law a trespasser is a person who commits the act of trespassing on a property, that is, without the permission of the owner.

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Tunisia

Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.

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Valentine Dyall

Valentine Dyall (7 May 1908 – 24 June 1985) was an English character actor. Spike Milligan and Valentine Dyall are the Goon Show.

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VisitEngland

VisitEngland is the official tourist board for England.

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Vulture (website)

Vulture is an American entertainment news website.

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Wadestown, New Zealand

Wadestown is a northern suburb of Wellington, (the capital city of New Zealand) located about by road from the Wellington central business district and the New Zealand Parliament Buildings.

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Wallace Greenslade

Wallace Frederick Powers Greenslade (1 July 1912 – 21 April 1961), also known as Bill Greenslade, was a BBC radio announcer and newsreader. Spike Milligan and Wallace Greenslade are the Goon Show.

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Watch Your Stern

Watch Your Stern is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips.

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Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

The wedding of Prince Charles (later King Charles III) and Lady Diana Spencer took place on Wednesday, 29 July 1981, at St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom.

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Wellington

Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.

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What a Whopper

What a Whopper is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Adam Faith, Sid James and Carole Lesley.

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William McGonagall

William McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet and public performer.

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Willie Rushton

William George Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English actor, cartoonist, comedian and satirist who co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye. Spike Milligan and Willie Rushton are writers who illustrated their own writing.

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Winchelsea

Winchelsea is a town in the county of East Sussex, England, located between the High Weald and the Romney Marsh, approximately south west of Rye and north east of Hastings.

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Wolves, Witches and Giants

Wolves, Witches and Giants, narrated by Spike Milligan, is a children's cartoon series of humorous adaptations of classic fairy tales, featuring a collection of villains including the wily wolf, a wicked witch and an enormous giant.

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Woodside Park, Barnet

Woodside Park is a suburban residential area in the London Borough of Barnet, in the North Finchley postal district of N12.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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World's funniest joke

The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research.

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Wounded in action

Wounded in action (WIA) describes combatants who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during wartime, but have not been killed.

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Woy Woy

Woy Woy is a coastal town in the Central Coast region of the New South Wales state of Australia.

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Yangon

Yangon (ရန်ကုန်), formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma).

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Yellow Submarine (song)

"Yellow Submarine" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. It was also issued on a double A-side single, paired with "Eleanor Rigby". Written as a children's song primarily by Paul McCartney with contributions from John Lennon, it was drummer Ringo Starr's vocal spot on the album.

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Yellowbeard

Yellowbeard is a 1983 comedy film directed by Mel Damski and written by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna, and David Sherlock, with an ensemble cast featuring Chapman, Cook, Peter Boyle, Cheech & Chong, Martin Hewitt, Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Madeline Kahn, James Mason, and John Cleese, and the final cinematic appearances of Marty Feldman, Spike Milligan, and Peter Bull.

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Ying Tong Song

The "Ying Tong Song" (also known by its refrain, which is variously either "Ying tong diddle I po" or "Ying tong yiddle I po" rather than the oft-quoted but apparently absent "Ying tong iddle I po") is a novelty song written by Spike Milligan and performed by the Goons, usually led by Harry Secombe. Spike Milligan and Ying Tong Song are the Goon Show.

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Young Communist League (Great Britain)

The Young Communist League (YCL) is the youth section of the Communist Party of Britain.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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35 mm movie film

35 mm film is a film gauge used in filmmaking, and the film standard.

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7th County of London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

The 7th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a new unit formed when Britain's Territorial Force was created in 1908.

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See also

20th-century British memoirists

21st-century British comedians

British humorous poets

British radio writers

Deaths from kidney failure in the United Kingdom

Irish people with disabilities

People from Ahmednagar

The Goon Show

References

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

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