Breakfast Time
British television's first national breakfast television programme, Produced by the BBC it was revolutionary for the time, mixing hard news with light-hearted features. The presenters, typically wo...
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Richard Briers
Actor. Born Richard David Briers at the Nelson Hospital in Merton. After many stage appearances, he came to national recognition in the television sitcom 'Marriage Lines'. He is however best rememb...
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British Broadcasting Corporation
Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb. Founded as the British Broadcasting Company on 18 October 1922 to do test radio transmissions from Marconi House in the Strand. On 14 Nove...
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Richard Burton
Actor. Born Richard Walter Jenkins at Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Wales. He was adopted by his English teacher Philip Burton, and took his surname. His first theatrical success was in Christopher Fry's 'The L...
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Michael Caine
Actor. Born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in St Olave's Hospital, Rotherhithe. His career started in repertory theatre and television, eventually getting his big break in the film 'Zulu'. He went on t...
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Simon Callow
Actor, director, writer. Born Streatham.
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Ken Campbell
Writer, actor, director and comedian. Born in Ilford, Essex. Described as one of the strangest people in Britain. He trained at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), but never fitted into any conve...
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David Cassidy
Actor, singer and songwriter. Born in New York, son of actor Jack Cassidy. He became a teenage idol playing Keith Partridge in the television musical show 'The Partridge Family'. He found it diffic...
Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre, TV & Radio, USA
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Roy Castle OBE
All round entertainer. Born Yorkshire. Died at home at Gerrards Cross of lung cancer, although he was not a smoker. Before his death he campaigned for more research into cancer and the campaign c...
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