Fictional boy wizard. Hero of seven novels by J. K. Rowling. They have all been filmed with Daniel Radcliffe playing the lead role. As at 2018, worldwide sales of the books exceed 500 million. 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child', a play featuring an adult Harry, opened in London in 2016.
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Harry Potter
The ride on the Hogwarts Express starts from King's Cross railway station pla...
Originated in France as an album and then briefly as a show. Cameron Mackintosh got hold of it and the English show opened at the Barbican Centre in 1985. Moved first to the Palace and then on 3 A...
The world's longest running play - still going in 2013. Written by Agatha Christie who gave the rights to her grandson. We've heard the butler did it.
Television programme broadcast by BBC One since 1963. It was originally intended to be an educational programme using time travel as a means to explore scientific ideas and famous moments in histor...
Comic play. Probably the best known work of Oliver Goldsmith. Originally entitled 'Mistakes of a Night'. The daughter of a wealthy countryman poses as a servant in order to win over her nervous sui...
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
Gentlewoman and benefactress. Born Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Sackville, treasurer to the exchequer of Queen Elizabeth I. She married Gregory Fiennes, who subsequently became 10th Baron Dacre. I...
There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against...
Anatomist and surgeon. Born in Pimlico. In 1845 he became a student at St George's Hospital, and in 1852 was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1858 he published the first edition of his 'An...
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