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6 days ago · Ray Galton agreed: 'My considered advice,' he told me, 'was for the BBC to tell Harold Wilson, very politely of course, to get stuffed!'
4 days ago · The series most celebrated episodes of the TV version include The Radio Ham and The Blood Doner. Both versions were written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The Progression of That’s TV. That’s TV has developed quite considerably over the last few years, showing just a couple of classic shows to compiling an entire evening’s schedule.
Jun 20, 2024 · Having written Hancock’s Half Hour the previous decade, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson struck a similarly fatalistic tone at 26a Oil Drum Lane. An almost Beckettian comedy of inter-generational ...
Jun 17, 2024 · John Hewer – who has previously played Albert Steptoe and Tommy Cooper on stage – will take the role of Tony Hancock in scripts he adapted from Ray Galton and Alan Simpson’s originals. The Lost TV Episodes tour marks 100 years of Hancock – who was born on May 12, 1924 – and 70 years of his show, first broadcaster on the radio on ...
3 days ago · In 1954 Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes, along with Ray Galton, Alan Simpson and Frankie Howerd, formed Associated London Scripts, envisaged as a comedy scriptwriters' cooperative, situated above a greengrocers in Shepherd's Bush.
Jun 20, 2024 · The Murderer is a novel by Guyanese writer Roy A. K. Heath, first published in 1978 by Allison and Busby. Heath was born in 1926 in Georgetown, Guyana, where most of the novel's events take...
Jun 19, 2024 · Eugenics, the selection of desired heritable characteristics to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans. The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by British scientist Francis Galton. By World War I many scientists and political leaders supported eugenics, though it ultimately failed as a science.
