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A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens' "little Christmas Book" first published on December 17, 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. The story met with instant success, selling six thousand copies within a week. Originally written as a potboiler to enable Dickens to pay off a debt, the tale has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time. In fact, some historians have suggested that the very popularity of this story played a critical role in redefining the modern importance of Christmas and the ...

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MW- 720 kHz" MW - 720 kHz BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It is broadcast on 92 - 95 MHz FM (95.80 MHz in central Scotland, and 103-104.5 MHz in parts of Wales) and 198 kHz longwave 720 kHz Medium wave; and via DAB, satellite (FM is broadcast on Sky channel 854 and LW is broadcast on Sky channel 893), selected Cable television providers, Freeview channel 704 and the Internet. It superseded its ...

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Andy Hamilton is a British comedian, game show panelist, director and comedy scriptwriter for television and radio. He has appeared in The News Quiz, QI and If I Ruled the World, and is an occasional guest panelist in I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He was born in Fulham, South West London and educated at grammar school before reading English at Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society (CULES). Hamilton first came to major notice whilst performing in the w ...

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Although comedy was once a significant part of American broadcast radio programming it is now mainly found in the archives of Old Time Radio enthusiasts and in internet streaming of comedy recordings. Exceptions to this are WSRN's "Audience of Two", Garrison Keillor's work on Minnesota Public Radio: "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Comedy College", and NPR's Car Talk, a comedy show thinly disguised as car advice. In Britain and Canada, however, the BBC and CBC respectively have continued making new radio comedy and drama. British radio comedy also has a home on Australia's Radio National and in Ireland there are alway ...

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Radio comedy, Radio comedy - Background and history, Radio comedy - List of radio comedies

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The most popular variant is called "Animal, Mineral, Vegetable". In this version, the answerer tells the questioners at the start of the game whether the object is an animal, mineral, or vegetable. The game defines an animal as a member of the animal kingdom, a vegetable as a member of the plant kingdom and a mineral as anything else. This can produce some odd technicalities, such as a wooden table being classified as a vegetable. Other versions specify that the thing to be guessed should be in a given catego ...

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Twenty Questions, Twenty Questions - Rules, Twenty Questions - Popular variants, Twenty Questions - Trivia

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In the 1970s he appeared with Tim Brooke-Taylor and John Junkin in the BBC radio series Hello, Cheeky! which basically consisted of the three performers bouncing jokes off of each other, as well as appearing in the comedy television series The Steam Video Company. He also had a role in All You Need Is Cash. He toured with Willie Rushton in the show Two Old Farts in the Night, which was released on video, and That Reminds Me after Rushton's death. H ...

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Barry Cryer, Barry Cryer - Career highlights, Barry Cryer - Trivia, Barry Cryer - External link

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Her father was a foreign correspondent for a Danish television channel, and she spent most of her youth abroad (including the USA). She studied law and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, but ended up getting into drama. She wrote and performed in the first all-woman show at the Cambridge Footlights, and moved via children's television into the comedy circuit. She performed at the first night of The Comedy Store in London and was once part of The Comedy Store Players ...

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Sandi Toksvig, Sandi Toksvig - Career, Sandi Toksvig - Politics, Sandi Toksvig - Personal life, Sandi Toksvig - Bibliography, Sandi Toksvig - Books for children, Sandi Toksvig - Books for adults

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My name is Angus Prune and I always listen to I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (You Don't!) My name is Angus Prune and I never miss I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (Get Away!) I sit in my bath And I have a good laugh Cause the sig tune is named after me (Tell us yer name!) My name is Angus Prune And this is my tune It goes I-S-I-R-T-A I'm Sorry I'll Read That AGA ...

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I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - Catchphrases, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - External link

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The film is set in motion by Mexican patrone El Jefe (played by frequent Peckinpah actor Emilio Fernandez) who offers two million dollars for the head of gigolo Alfredo Garcia, who has impregnanted his daughter. El Jefe's bounty sets off a storm of bounty hunters, assassins, and assorted low-lifes, who scour Mexico for the missing ladies man. Bennie (Warren Oates) gets wind of the bounty, and convinces his girlfriend Elita (played by Mexican movie star Isela Vega) a former lover of Garcia, to take him to Garcia's vill ...

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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - Plot, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - Reception

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List of comedies - Australia. All Together Now (sitcom) Aunty Jack (satire/sketch comedy) Australia, You're Standing In It (sketch comedy) CNNNN (satire/parody of CNN) Daas Kapital (satire/sketch comedy) The D-Generation (sketch comedy) Double the Fist (satire with sketch elements) Fast Forward (sketch comedy) Frontline (satire/sitcom) Full Frontal (sketch co ...

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List of comedies, List of comedies - Television comedies, List of comedies - Australia, List of comedies - Belgium, List of comedies - Canada, List of comedies - United Kingdom, List of comedies - United States, List of comedies - Theatrical comedies, List of comedies - France, List of comedies - Russia, List of comedies - United Kingdom, List of comedies - United States, List of comedies - Radio comedies, List of comedies - Canada, List of comedies - United Kingdom, List of comedies - USA

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The Radio 4 Website Schedule Page shows the running order for the current day. Radio 4 splits from the World Service at 0529, with a brief introduction from the early shift continuity announcer, before the 5-minute "Radio 4 UK Theme" (composed by Fritz Spiegl). This is followed at 0535 by the shipping forecast, weather reports from coastal stations for 0400GMT and inshore waters forecasts. On weekdays, the Today programme runs from 0600 to 0900. On, or after the hour, with few exceptions, a news bulletin is broadcast - this is sometim ...

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Such instruments have been used in Africa for hundreds of years, to disguise the sound of somebody's voice or to imitate animals, for example, often for ceremonial purposes. It was on such an instrument that the kazoo, invented by an African American named Alabama Vest in the 19th century in Macon, Georgia, is based. The first kazoo was manufactured to Vest's specifications by Thaddeus von Clegg, a German clockmaker in Macon. The kazoo was first publicized a ...

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Kazoo, Kazoo - History, Kazoo - Professional usage, Kazoo - Kazoos in pop culture

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A Christmas Carol has been adapted to theatre, film, radio, and television countless times. According to the Internet Movie Database, various movie adaptations of the story were filmed as early as 1910. Perhaps the most popular and critically-acclaimed film adaptation of the story was made in Britain in 1951. Originally titled Scrooge (and renamed A Christmas Carol for its American release), it starred Alastair Sim as Scrooge, and was directed by Brian Desmond-Hurst with a screenplay by Noel Langley. Most modern adaptations refer to the spirit of "Christmas Yet to C ...

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A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol - Plot synopsis, A Christmas Carol - Characters, A Christmas Carol - Adaptations, A Christmas Carol - Sequels

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A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one evening. Mr. Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has spent his life concentrating on the accumulation of wealth and little else. He holds anything other than wealth in contempt including friendship, love and the Christmas season. In keeping with the title "Christmas Carol" Dickens divides his literary "piece of music" into five "staves" (plural of staff, an el ...

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A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol - Plot synopsis, A Christmas Carol - Characters, A Christmas Carol - Adaptations, A Christmas Carol - Sequels

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Dickens wraps up the story with two short paragraphs telling us that sickly Tiny Tim survives and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge becomes renowned for his newfound goodness--basically a "happily ever after" ending--but he provides no detail on what happens to any of the characters. Following the every-good-story-deserves-a-sequel idea, a number of authors have crafted their own versions of what befell Scrooge and company. Ranging from Internet stories to best-selling novels, several different works have picked up the characters and events of Dickens' classic ...

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A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol - Plot synopsis, A Christmas Carol - Characters, A Christmas Carol - Adaptations, A Christmas Carol - Sequels

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Weekdays 0529 Split from BBC World Service 0530 Radio 4 UK Theme 0535 News Headlines 0536 Shipping Forecast 0543 Prayer for the Day 0545 Farming Today 0600 Today, with News at 0600, 0700 and 0800, summaries at 0630, 0730 and 0830, paper reviews at 0640 and 0740, weather at 0605, 0657, 0757, business at 0615, 0720 and 0840 and sports desk at 0625, 0725 and 0825 0900 News 0902 Debate programmes (including Start the Week and In Our Time< ...

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The overwhelming majority of programmes are now available on demand from Radio 4's Listen Again page, although RealNetworks' RealPlayer is required (The BBC had negotiated to ensure this will always be freely available to UK listeners by following links from the BBC website). The BBC Radio 4 website groups programmes into various genres: BBC Radio 4 - News and current affairs. A Point of View Any Questions? Broadcasting House Farming Today ...

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List of comedies - France. La Puce à l'Oreille (trans. "A Flea in Her Ear") by Georges Feydeau List of comedies - Russia. The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol (made into the Danny Kaye screen musical The Inspector General.) List of comedies - United Kingdom. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (adapted for film and television numerous times) Much Ado About Nothi ...

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List of comedies - Canada. Double Exposure Frantic Times The Royal Canadian Air Farce Spring Thaw Great Conversations with Joseph the Irish Potato Farmer [1] List of comedies - United Kingdom. The 99p Challenge Absolute Power Beyond Our Ken The Cabaret of Dr Caligari The Clitheroe Kid Dead Ringers < ...

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Announcers link programmes, provide trails for coming programmes and read the Shipping Forecast. Newsreaders read hourly summaries and longer bulletins. Senior Announcers Chris Aldridge Harriet Cass Newsreaders Peter Donaldson Charlotte Green Brian Perkins Newsreaders / Continuity Announcers Carolyn Brown Corrie Corfield Rory Morrison Susan Rae