Entertainment Category
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Two graduates from Oxford (Michael Palin and Terry Jones), three from Cambridge (John Cleese, Graham Chapman and…
Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest was first staged by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in 1956 in Switzerland.…
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) was an award-winning star of silent films in his trademark character, ‘the tramp’.…
Elton John
Sir Elton John, CBE, was born in 1947 in Middlesex and is an award-winning, record-breaking musical phenomenon.…
‘Come Dancing’
‘Come Dancing’ first appeared on British TV screens in 1949 ~ a time when people were ready…
Cropredy
Cropredy is a village in Oxfordshire which plays host every August to a music festival also simply…
‘The Family’
Reality TV, the docu-soap and the fly-on-the-wall documentary can all thank the BBC’s 1974 television programme ‘The…
Dame Margot Fonteyn
Born in Surrey in 1919 as Margaret Hookham, Dame Margot Fonteyn‘s mother was key to her future…
The Beatles
The Beatles were a musical phenomenon in the 1960s that changed the pop music genre forever. There…
The BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards were first devised for the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee (25 years on…
Brian Blessed
A force of nature, Yorkshireman Brian Blessed (1936-) is an actor on stage and screen, a voiceover…
‘The Mousetrap’
‘The Mousetrap’, written by Agatha Christie (1890-1976) from Devon, is the world’s longest-running play. It opened in…