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Dame Judi Dench
Born in Yorkshire in 1934, Dame Judi Dench has spent almost all her working life as an…
‘Just A Minute’
The world’s longest-running panel show is BBC Radio’s ‘Just A Minute’ (JAM), which first aired on 22nd…
Genesis
Four teenage boys at a public school in Godalming formed a rock band in 1965 that would…
Wallace and Gromit
Making a stop-frame or stop-motion animation film is a painstaking, slow process, but Nick Parks, CBE, RDI…
Hammer horrors
Hammer Film Productions Ltd was formed in 1946, taking ‘Hammer’ from one of the owners of its…
David Bowie
David Bowie, née Jones, (1947-2016) was an extraordinary songwriter and singer, musician, painter and actor of the…
The Goon Show
World War 2 brought many cultural changes, one of which was the birth of modern British comedy,…
Bruce Forsyth
Rightly dubbed ‘Mr. Entertainment’, Sir Bruce Forsyth, CBE (1928-2017) had a show business career from age fourteen…
The Isle of Wight Festival
In 1968, around 15,000 people paid 25 shillings each to attend the first Isle of Wight Festival,…
Status Quo
Rock band, Status Quo, first formed in London in 1962 as The Scorpions and they are still…
The Olivier Awards
Sir Laurence Olivier (1907-89) was born in Surrey and became a highly revered, indeed legendary, Shakespearean actor…
Pub quiz nights
In the 1970s, pubs were seeing their businesses decline due to people staying in to watch television…